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I thought it would be handy to keep all the end of season offers for the normal garden centres in one place, it should also give people a good idea of where to go in order to get a bargain!

E.g

Wyevale garden centres seem to have a 50% all seeds sale on at the moment. This applies to veggies and flowers but not grass. They are also selling off all their garden furniture stock in a 50% or more off sale.

Does anyone else know of any good deals going at the moment?

(I'd like to pick up another mini plastic greenhouse on the cheap)

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someone posted about woolworths having heavy discounts on garden stuff like tomato food for £1, hanging baskets for £1, etc

Wilkinsons also have a sale on.

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Just picked up veg & flower seeds up for 5p at Wilkinsons!

woolworths also had tomato grobags at 50p each..plus little mini greenhouse ( more like a big cloche) for £3...i got 3 and plan to grow peppers under them on the plot next year.
had to ring up different stores as in my local store one woman ahead of me bought all 7 on the shelf, so words out about these bargins for sure.

woolies again for me today got
six pkts seeds 25p for all six!!!!
greenhouse staging £5
more tom feed £1
Extending loppers £4
must stop calling in just to have a look

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both my local woolies are small, only about 4ft of shelving for gardening stuff and not much left .... both stores have different stuff ... nothing much of any real use to me ...

but found a nice little desktop water feature thing, battery operated, for £3 as a pressie for a friend who has been whining about wanting a water feature in her garden!

Woolworth for me to
last week bought a 4 tier poly house for £15.00 this week bought a 4 stage racking for a fiver and lots of other odds and ends for 50 pences and noticed walk in green houses £15.00 which i will buy one this weekend.
A while back i bought a three shelf poly house for around a tenner from wilkinsons, but i always seem to arrive just as every thing has been sold out !
And again from woolies a small cold frame poly thing .looks like a foot high greenhouse for £8.00.

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a good put down line to use !

If having brains was a fatal disease, you would be the only survivor.

Sorry, didn't see this thread when I posted mine about Wyvale.

Still they are selling their seeds at 50p a packet at their Woburn Sands branch

Went out today on a "bargain hunt". We've only got a little Woolworths and a little Wilkinsons in Stafford I asked for seeds in Woolies and got a look as if I'd asked for some dirty fivers out of the till!!! No, don't sell seeds there. Wilkinsons had a few of 3 for 2 offers, but nothing that took my fancy. Think it might be a trip to Wyvale on Sunday since it's forecast rain.

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thompson and morgan are offering (while stocks last) 5 packets of seeds for a pound
there is two choices one is 5 different veg seed packets and the other is a flower selection both with a value of over £10 for a pound i think thats worth a purchase x

our woolies is small but i got today a pair of childs gardening gloves (i have small hands) for 25p, pack of 3 seed trays and a pack of seed modules both 25p each, and a pack of natural slug repellant (grit like stuff) for £1.

has any Irish grape got details of any offers available in ireland or even buy mail order

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thompson and morgan deliver worlwide x im in the canary islands and my orders usually arrive within 2 weeks

Wyevale Ferndown have masses of seeds at 50p a packet and most have a 2010 date on them !!
I was like a kid in a sweetie shop and bought 70 packets (embarressed of Dorset ! )

70 packets!!!!! What are you going to do with the £35 that you saved? That's the logic I always try to use anyway! Seriously though, where on earth are you going to find the space for them all?

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Snap. I saw the thread about Wyevale having reduced seeds yesterday early morning. Nipped into Wyevale at Ferndown and my hubby, daughter and I must have spent a good 45 minutes going through the baskets of seeds. I was knelt on the floor. It was a good plan. We all put loads in the basket that we thought we wanted, then went through at the end to check there were no duplicates. £32.50 on seeds, work out how many I bought. The flower seeds were also in the sale, I've bought loads of nasturtiums for companion planting, hoping the cabbage whites will be attracted to them more than my cabbages.

Such good value at 50p a packet, we're about to work out the true cost of the seeds at full price.

Oh my goodness, just totalled up the normal price of the seeds
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£131.28


I'm gobsmacked

I've been looking into the price of seeds this year, and if you break them all down to per seed prices, you may be surprised sometimes.

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wyevale purley way seeds at 50p per pack too - bought 37 packs

woolies have 71 piece 23.5m watering kit ("drip feed" kit) that connects directly to an outside tap for £2

West Midland Farmers do some large packets of seeds at bulk prices. I picked up a 500g bag of Meteor peas for £1.99, which is pretty much what a standard packet would cost you anywhere else. Not a huge range, but I reckon good value if you plan to sow a lot of something.

(Oops - showing my age there lol. Countrywide, not WMF.)

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My local Wyvale has 50P seed packet sale on, but not for Veg, only Flowers.

Take note, not all Sales appear to be the same.

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There does not seem any one in my local area doing cheap veg seeds at the moment,so im buying up all the neccesitys that are being sold of for next year.
Was going to get a walk in greenhouse the weekend for £15.00 in woolies but forgot so when i went there yesterday they had sold out.Bought a £3.00 frame as a consolation to give to a friend as i already have one,and it cost me £8.00 some weeks back and i thought that was a good price then. I also saw the irrigation set for £2.00 and was tready to pounce when i realised i dont have an outdoor tap.Also bought more 50 pencer items again!.

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a good put down line to use !

If having brains was a fatal disease, you would be the only survivor.

Nemo, Thompson and Morgan certainly deliver to Ireland (I'm guilty of a number of orders from there!!).

I got a couple of packets of Unwins seeds reduced to half price in Hurleys Supervalu in Midleton (Cork) a couple of weeks ago. But they weren't reduced in my local SV in Dublin - would Garvey's be worth a look?

Otherwise no offers that I am aware of (bought a load in T&M's half price sales recently so not allowed buy seeds for a while).

Woodies usually have any compost bags that burst being sold for half price (bought one last week and think I'll need another for my spuds so back again this weekend).

I am on the lookout for gloves at the minute if you know where to get any......