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  • GYO With Pippa Greenwood

    Grow Your Own Magazine is thrilled to launch TV and radio green-fingered expert Pippa Greenwood’s exciting gardening service

    Through her new series in GYO (see our November issue for the first installment, 'Prolific Planning'), which offers top tips for ensuring you get the best out of your plot, Pippa is introducing a unique grow-your-own vegetable package. The competitively priced scheme allows you to select the types you want to cultivate and is suitable for both complete newcomers and experienced gardeners wanting to achieve their best-ever crop. It includes first-grade, easy-to-grow plants, sourced from Pippa’s favourite UK nursery and delivered straight to your door. Participants will receive expert advice specific to their crops, emailed direct from Pippa on a weekly basis. The package is also available as a gift voucher and would make the perfect Christmas present! For details or to order, visit pippagreenwood.com.

    Last edited by Rosie; 29-09-2009, 03:23 PM.

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    Aww...now then...I've always liked Pippa! Brill!
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      Excellent -Pippa is excellent
      aka
      Suzie

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      • #4
        80 odd quid for 10 plants and 6 packets of very basic seeds! Doesn't look competitively priced to me, ask Pippa credits or not.
        Urban Escape Blog

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        • #5
          I do love Pippa Greenwood, not sure about the offer though.
          We plant the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed - Neil, The Young Ones

          http://countersthorpeallotment.blogspot.com/
          Updated 21st July - please take a look

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          • #6
            I think you have got this wrong - if you add up how many plants you get for each veg type you select you get 101 plants for £84. I'm sure they will be great plants (why would someone like PG sell you anything else?!) and some weekly advice from Pippa plus the opportunity to ask her questons has got to be a great starting point if you want to maximise your chances of producing a great crop. I'm going to give it a go!

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            • #7
              Sorry... doesn't sound appealing to me either, when especially you then have to buy extra credit to ask Pippa when you have additional questions. Mhmmm.... grapevine sounds like much better holistic advice for free, and seeds you could get via the seed swap and the plants for a similar price from other online sites.

              Is the previous poster a Pippa affiliate doing self-advertising?
              http://onegardenersadventures.blogspot.com/ updated 10-03-2010 with homebrew pics & allotment pics

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              • #8
                In all honesty, I've had such a disasterous year with brassicas and over wintering crops, that I have resorted to buying a 'kit' of plants from Vegetable plants available mail order from vegetableplantsdirect over 500 varieties available from heritage to modern F1 varieties which are due to be delivered soon. I hope this is the only year I have to do this, but I think the options available were better than those shown on the PG website, and I felt the price was reasonable for the kit I chose. I haven't received the kit yet, so can't comment on the quality of the plants, but they can't be any worse than the ones I grew!!
                Last edited by Pumpkin Becki; 30-09-2009, 11:26 AM.

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                • #9
                  Actually if you were just starting out, or had limited time/room then the price of ready grown plants & seeds (which includes p&p/vat) doesn't seem too bad - plus you get personal advice from Pippa!

                  I'm not a Pippa affiliate, just think that different things appeal to some & not others. (Oh hang on I do have Pippa's 'Organic Kitchen Garden' book which was one of the 1st gardening books we bought when starting out GYOing 10 years ago! )
                  To see a world in a grain of sand
                  And a heaven in a wild flower

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                  • #10
                    Hmmm... It wouldn't be for me, although I'm not averse to buying in plants. I just couldn't justify spending that much on them just for some extra growing advice - I can get that here It's a bloomin' good idea though, hope she does well with it because I like her

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by SarzWix View Post
                      I just couldn't justify spending that much ...for some extra growing advice - I can get that here

                      they won't shut us down now will they? We might put Pip out of business
                      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                        We might put Pip out of business
                        I think it would take far bigger things than us to do that - maybe Gordon Brown might
                        aka
                        Suzie

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                        • #13
                          Having seen the price of plants in the Garden Centres I am thinking of doing a few extra trays each time and taking them down the car boot sale. All I have to loose is the cost of seed and a bit of compost.

                          Ian

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by gojiberry View Post
                            Having seen the price of plants in the Garden Centres I am thinking of doing a few extra trays each time and taking them down the car boot sale. All I have to loose is the cost of seed and a bit of compost.

                            Ian
                            ...then change your name to Pippa Greenwood, and you're sound as a pound!!

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                            • #15
                              Ohhh! I've just had an email to say my plants are on their way!! Guess what I'll be doing this weekend!!

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