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Discount supermarkets
Those of you who have walked around your local German discount supermarket & beamed at their gardening products & prices but shocked by the state of their plant stock.
I was so disapointed by the condition of their fruit tree's the other day that I decided to contact them and ask why they always fail to water the stock. I was told that all stores are instructed to water the plants once a day. Those instructions have never been adhered to by any of their stores we have visited.
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Tesco are no better.
The Range had tomato plants shivering outdoors in early May and the hardy pansies undercover.
The same at our local store which is not German, they either over water or don't water at all.
I am astounded that B&Q treat their plants so badly; when I asked why they did not do better this was the reply; 'the girl who looks after the plants only comes in 2 or3 days a week'
So I get to buy big plants for 50p when they think they are dying - but all they need is some water
50p? I was robbed! The gooseberry I got off their dead plants shelf was a quid!
My b&q has one of those lawn watering things that somehow wets everything and waters nothing.
Got a nice dead hydrangea off them for £1 last year too-hasn't budded up yet but I did have to cut it back...
If it is the german store with A at the start I too have been shocked at what I have seen going to waste at a couple of my local stores. There must have been over a 100 plants dying at one place, including those Bay trees trained with a twisted stem. Somebody put a lot of effort into producing them and it is disrespectful to the growers, very wasteful and atrocious PR for the company. Rant over.
Our local Aldi had about six trolleys of various plants outside the front of the store that were all were desperate for a drink - I bought four hanging baskets, two tomatoes and two strawberries for little money.
Some bloke there commented that he'd mentioned to a staff member that all the plants needed a drink and he was told ''we're not allowed to water them due to H&S regulations as somebody might slip on the wet floor''
Wonder what they do when it rains and the floor gets wet.......