Seeds Sale 50p/packet at Garden Centre Group (formerly Wyevales)

The annual seed-sale at Garden Centre Group started yesterday I think - I didn't see any mention of it in their newsletter, so I called in on the off chance to see if they were running it again this year.

Best bargain: £4.99 - 90% discount , "worst" £1.45 - 66% discount

Store locator:
http://www.thegardencentregroup.co.uk/centres-by-county/garden-centre-locator

 

It's a brilliant bargain if your ready to go bin diving! The earlier you go the better too! They chuck all the veg seeds in one bin and flowers in another so you need time to sift through. I'm lazy though so got mine a couple of weeks ago while they were still on the racks at half price. I only bought a few packets too as I've still got loads of seeds that need using up.

 

They leave them on the racks for the first few days, so as long as you are quick they should still be "nicely ordered" but, yeah, I've sat cross-legged on the floor there tipping out buckets of seed packets and sorting through them !!

 

Hi All,

I went to my local one on Friday and got the list below, I only went in for bulbs and guess what I didn't get any just seeds

Sweet pea - Night and Day
Petunia
Busy Lizzie
Tomato - Sweet baby
Achillea - Summer Berries
Radish - Scarlet Globe
Pumpkin - Amazonka
Parsnip - Tender and True
Beetroot - Globe 2
Sweet Pea - Pink Cupid (these are ony 20 cm thought they would be nice in pots by seating area)
Sweet Pea - Sugar and Spice (hanging basket variety)
Lobelia - Tupa

All are either Suttons or Thompson and Morgan I paid £8.45 which I thought was a bit of a bargain.

Rusty

 

I bought 16 packets between £1.45 and £1.99 - TBH, and now I think about it, I might as well have bought those in the earlier 50% sale - I would have had more choice.

And, conincidentally!, I also bought 16 packets at £2.00+ ... these are mainly poncy F1 hybrids, that I don't have any particular alledgance to, and I would have been happy to get them, or some other F1 choice, in the 50p-a-packet sale ...

I also got 5 packets of Peas, Beans, etc. all bar one were £2.00 plus (and there was plenty of stock so waiting would not have meant I missed out ...)

Interestingly Carters Runner Beans (big packet) were £1.00 ... that's quite a bargain

It makes interesting reading to see which things are less than £2.00, and which are more ... if it were not for the fixed 50p price I would have been discerning based, somewhat, on price:

Rhubarb Chard £1.45
Spinach Beet £.145
but Swiss Chard Bright Lights is £2.35 (fewer seeds too ...)
No difference in flavour, just colour & fashion, IMHO - plenty of Ruby ones in a packet of Bright Lights

Leaf Salad (poncy name, that one!) is £2.35 ... and Squash F1 Cobnut, 12 seeds for £4.25

 

Just as I'm packing my fishing rods for a trip away I find out about this. Now I'll have to use 'Wyevale' storefinder and get up slightly earlier just in case I miss out on something.

 

Hahaha ... no - I took a leaf out of what I thought was your book and decided I would buy plants of Cues next year from them instead of spending money on seeds that I then fail to manage to grow!

I expect you only got 4 seeds in the packet? I wonder why F1 Cues are so expensive to "make"?

My most expensive was Mushroom spawn

Surely Basjoo is sterile? (well the one that everyone grows). I've read of seed, and it must have originated that way, but I'm doubtful that the hardiness would be assured from seed, so I reckon you saved yourself a Bob or two (well, 10 Bob actually!)

 

Not one of those polystyrene mushroom kits (if that was what you were thinking?) but it is quite a large packet (similar size to a packet of runner bean seeds) of dry mushroom spawn. Probably won't do anything, but I thought worth a punt for 10-Bob

So true!

 

That would have been a coup at 50p-a-box, I would have bought the whole stack!

 

Hi All,

Just been to my local one for some seeds. Got all the basket an pots sorted for me and mother in law for £5.50 should have been £37. Also they are doing winter Pansies and Violas down from £3.99 to £1 for a tray of 6 so I also got 6 trays. So 36 plants and 11 packets of seed cost £11.50. What a bargain

Rusty

 

Plus your Gardner's Club Points Rusty - mustn't forget them !!