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Use Your Allotment Shops
Why waste time and petrol driving to the Garden Centre when you can buy what you need at competitive prices at the Allotment Association's shops on site?
Below are some of the more popular items we sell with their latest prices.
| Humax Growbags: £2.20 | Humax Multi 40lt: £3.55 | Humax Multi 75lt: £4.95 |
| Superphoshate: 70p per pound | Bone Meal: 30p per pound | Bone Meal 25kg: £13.60 |
| S Ammonia: 35p per lb | S Potash: 80p per lb | Garden Lime: 10p per pound |
| John Innes Seed: £3.05 | John Innes No2: £2.45 for 20l | Garden Lime 25kg: £5.50 |
| Potting Grit 25kg: £3.85 | Potting Sand 25kg: £3.85 | Silver Sand 25kg: £3.85 |
| Growmore: 30p per lb | Growmore 25kg: £15.90 | Lawn Sand 25kg: £8.15 |
| Blood fish & bone: 30p per lb | Blood fish & bone 25kg: £15.85 | Rose Food: 40p per pound |
Plus most other popular balanced fertilisers, feeds and treatments
Also fleece, netting, seeds (at half the price you'll pay in the shops!), canes (6' and 8'), pots, trays, string and lots more.
STORES OPEN 10 am to 12 noon on Saturdays and Sundays Come and have a look
Trading News
Surprise! Surprise! Some prices have reduced this year as well as some increases. Many of the bulk fertilisers which we weigh up into smaller quantities have become cheaper. Blood Fish & Bone, Bone Meal and Growmore are now down at 30p per lb while the large sizes are now B F Bone £15.85 Bone Meal £13.60 with Growmore at £15.90 each for the 25kg size. If you haven't tried Humex Multi compost yet you will find it is superior to most other makes and the prices are £4.95 for the 75lt size stocked at Tarring and Chesswood, while the 40lt size stocked at Humber costs £3.55, the smaller size is because I find it difficult to lift the larger bags. Grow bags are also the same make and the price is £2.20 each. JI Seed and No2 have added just 5p to the price at £3.05, and some members are mixing a bag of JI with a bag of Humex to improve it for seed sowing in trays.
Sturon Onion sets are still available in the stores as are some varieties of seed potatoes, first come first served. Some seed lines have sold out but there is still plenty of choice on the racks in the stores.
Pete Everett, Trading Sec. (11/03/11)
Spare Spuds
There are some spare seed potatoes available at Humber and West Tarring, Charlotte at 60p per lb, & Nadine or Desiree at 50p per lb. There are still onion sets as well.
(07/02/11)
Onion Sets now in
Both red and white onion sets are now in the Stores for you to buy. The varieties are Sturon (white) and Red Baron. This year they are available in ½lb lots as well as the usual 1lb lots. They cost 55p per ½lb, £1.10 per lb. at the moment. Same for shallots.
(22/01/11)
New Season's Seeds Now In!
The new season's seeds are now in and are on display at the Stores. They say "try something different" so why not try red spring onions? The variety is called Crimson Forest; also if you grow Blue Lake climbing French beans you may like to try Cobra for a change - very prolific, I'm told.
Sturon Onion sets will be in the Stores early January, as will red sets and shallots. Your potato orders will be ready for collection from the Stores at the end of January, in time for you to lay out in trays for chitting if wished.
Chesswood Store is now closed on Sundays for the winter and will reopen early February. Saturday trading will remain the same here. There is no change at the other Stores unless we are snowed in!!!
With the 20% VAT being applied in the New Year, prices in the Stores will change as new stock is order. It will add 5p to a 40lt bag of multi and 10p to a 75lt bag, but all other prices will change as old stock is sold.
(01/12/2010)
Potato Orders
- This is to remind members to send their Potato Order in to me by the end of November. The Order Form is on the back page of this issue of your personal Plotholder (October edition), so it is now decision time.
- New season's seed will be on the Store racks in November, so bring your list and stock up. You will find Japanese onion sets in each of the Stores at £1.10 per lb and garlic orders will also be ready for you to collect at this time.
- Dithane 945 has been discontinued and once existing stocks have been sold there will be no more.
(05/10/2010)
Onions and Garlic
- Japanese onion sets will be in the stores at the end of August priced at £1.10 per lb, same as last year. Do not plant before the middle of October or they tend to bolt.
- Garlic corms are £1.20 each available from any of the stores, cash with order please. Collection to start in mid-September.
- If you want seed potatoes please fill in the form in your next Plotholder as we won't have many spares if you forget. Price is expected to be in the region of 60p per lb. Reports we've received of the variety Accord (substitute for Arran Pilot last year) have been positive. If you think otherwise let us know - that's what we're here for. Let the Association take the strain; that's why you're a member!
(31/07/2010)
Problem with foxes?
Foxes have had a bit of a bad press recently and many of us now see them around not only in gardens but even in the road. Although their cubs do look engaging playing on your lawn or wherever there is no doubt they are also a nuisance ripping open bin gags, leaving droppings and digging holes. Poisoning is a bit of a risky business but there is a repellant you can buy which is humane and not dangerous to pets or children. It is called Renardine and our stores sock it.
Use Your Allotment Shops
Why waste time and petrol driving to the Garden Centre when you can buy what you need at competitive prices at the Allotment Association's shops on site?
Below are some of the more popular items we sell with their latest prices.
| Humax Growbags: £2.10 | Humax Multi 40lt: £2.85 | Humax Multi 75lt: £4.85 |
| Superphoshate: 70p per pound | Bone Meal: 35p per pound | Bone Meal 25kg: £18.35 |
| S Ammonia: 35p per lb | S Potash: 80p per lb | Garden Lime: 10p per pound |
| John Innes Seed: £3.00 | John Innes No2: £3.00 | Garden Lime 25kg: £5.50 |
| Chichester Grit 25kg: £3.85 | Potting Sand 25kg: £3.85 | Silver Sand 25kg: £3.85 |
| Growmore: 40p per lb | Growmore 25kg: £19.35 | Lawn Sand 25kg: £8.15 |
| Blood fish & bone: 30p per lb | Blood fish & bone 25kg: £16.25 | Rose Food: 40p per pound |
Plus most other popular balanced fertilisers, feeds and treatments
Also fleece, netting, seeds (at half the price you'll pay in the shops!), canes (6' and 8'), pots, trays, string and lots more.
STORES OPEN 10 am to 12 noon on Saturdays and Sundays Come and have a look
(04/03/10)
December Update
Onion sets and shallots will be in the Stores just after Christmas and it would help if members could decide as soon as possible what their requirements will be., You will be able to order them in any of the Stores from now onwards and the price will be £1.10 per lb. Cash with order, please. I have to order from the suppliers in October so place your order soon to avoid disappointment. Onion sets with be Sturon and Red Baron, while shallots will be Yellow Moon.
Many of you missed out on garlic, so I will be taking orders with the onion order, but that order must be in by 13th December. £1.20 each and cash with order, please. Collection will be early January.
Your seed potato order should be available by the end of January, so do please collect them as soon as possible after that. If you still haven't placed your order yet, do it now - the form was in October Plotholder.
I have just heard that the Humex multi compost that everyone has taken a liking to, has had a price increase (so what's new?) so once existing stock is sold the new price will apply. The size has changed back to 75 lts from 60 lts. Don't moan at the Store Keeper, he has to pay it as well. The new price to be advised.
Chesswood Store is closed for SUNDAY trading from 1st November until the end of January. Humber and Tarring are not affected.
(01/12/09)
Groworganic Fertiliser
Every day more and more gardeners are turning to the natural way of growing - organically. One of the most successful organic fertilisres is Groworganic, the 100% concentrated, oven-heated fertiliser. Groworganic is clean, dry, safe to use and easy to handle; it's not just a tonic supplement but also a compost accelerator.
Groworganic not only conditions the soil but breaks down clay and takes the backache out of gardening. It is safe with lime haters and no matter what condition your soil, hard sticky clay, sand or even dust, Groworganic will produce healthy bumper crops of fruit, vegetables, flowers and plants - year in year out.
Assisited by the Department of the Environment. Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) - who help to ensure that the product is of the highest standard - Groworganic is a healthy way to grow your crops and be kind to the environment. So start using Groworganic now and grow the natural way.
Produced for over 30 years, Groworganic is a 100% organic fertiliser which is composted, milled and oven treated at over 200°C to produce a safe and economical product. one bag will treat up to 250 square metres.
No other fertiliser is needed. It is ideal for lawns, roses, flowers, vegetables, fruit and shrubs. it cinditions soil, breaks clay and is easy and safe to handle.
Groworganic is available from our allotment shops at £5.60 per bag.
(April 2009)
Apprentice needed
For many years Peter Everett has been greeting you, taking your orders and fulfilling your requirements at the Humber stores. He is also in overall charge of the stock in all our stores and does all the ordering and associated book keeping. But Pete feels it is time to train up someone new to take over from him when the time comes. If you can help and fancy a go - which would involve shadowing Pete for a little while - please get in touch. In fact get in touch if you would like to help in any way at all - joining the committee, helping at events, producing publicity materials, - just let us know. (05/11/08)