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Panic buying in garden centre 🙄

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    All is clear!!! 

    They needed all those loo rolls for the tubes to start their peas and beans off in!!! 

    😂

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    ://www.facebook.com/westsomersetgardencentre/videos/855210561618905/
    Not sure if this link will work.  If not - check it out at this garden centre.  It brought a smile to my face!
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    All is clear!!! 

    They needed all those loo rolls for the tubes to start their peas and beans off in!!! 

    😂
    That is brilliant! Of course!!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    @Cheyngel- have you got a nursery anywhere near you that would deliver?
    If you have friends/neighbours who need compost, you could even chip in together for a load which would make delivery cheaper.

    Landscaping firms probably do it too- worth a wee look  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • StevedaylillyStevedaylilly Posts: 1,102
    edited March 2020
    Another possibility is that due to all social gatherings now closed, all these people have now become interested in the beauty of gardening.I would like to think positive that they are looking to buy plants, shrubs etc and spend glorious time making their gardens a thing of colour and form 
    But, on second thoughts, I’ll get me coat 😀😀
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Well they are probably right that this will carry on all summer. I sell vegetables and we're planting a lot more as we deliver and I expect more customers to my road side stand, and for box deliveries as people avoid supermarkets.
  • My local dobbies is still open but I'm not keen on going.its full usually and altho I haven't been out for a week I bet it still is.the one i really like is saying on its website it's going to do local deliveries.40 quid minimum.to help them out I can easily spend that.but how many will? I worry about the smaller nurserys.plant fayres are cancelled.one of the highlights of my year!!😥
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    What is really getting to me at the moment is that people are buying chickens,  half of them have no idea what that entails, they just thinking of eggs, several suppliers of POL are sold out. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Lyn said:
    What is really getting to me at the moment is that people are buying chickens,  half of them have no idea what that entails, they just thinking of eggs, several suppliers of POL are sold out. 
    I have no idea where you even buy live chickens, but I was joking just an hour ago that I bet people are panic buying them!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Rik56 said:
    Raids on alloments will be next..

    Don't joke about it.  My grandmother had a large garden which she tended herself until well into her 80's.  Crops were going missing so she and my mother 'staked the place out' one night from the shed.  It had just gone dark when they saw movement in the veg patch.  They waited until the thieves were well distracted by their work, crept out then switched on a torch.  The toerags were people who lived behind my gran, young and healthy - just bone idle.  Gran laid into them with a bamboo cane - then never came back.  This was back in the 60's when there seemed to be fewer toerags around.
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