More Aldi stuff...............

[Snadger]

ALDI - Thursday Special Buys 28th June 2012

[Marcher]

Lol, I'm like a kid in a candy store when Aldi sell plants. I've already bought apple and pear trees, strawberry plants, rhododendron, tomato plants, many bags of compost and plant pots from them in the last year.
They are very well priced though and usually good quality (although my local Aldi doesn't water the plants so you have to get there soon. Kind of dumb for a budget supermarket to blow profit like that all because they can't spare a bit of water).

The garden centres around here charge a fortune, I had a look through their site and also spotted the miniature roses they'll be selling from tomorrow. I was actually thinking about getting one for £8 from a garden centre - Aldi are going to be selling them for £2!
I may also pick up some of those winter veg kits, I fancy growing some leeks and cauliflower.

Thanks!

[T8Ter]

like I need more plants..... but my local Aldi, today, had some fantastic plants, in 4L pots, for £2.99, so a couple of Aubergines, Chillies, sweet peppers and yellow cherry toms later I'm now trying to find somewhere to put them

[Samurailord]

I also went a bit mad in Aldi yesterday - bought the veg plug boxes.

I got Spring Cabbage, Winter Cabbage, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Winter Onions and Winter Cauliflower.

They are in tiny plugs, about 2cm square and 3cm deep, and are sitting in a clear gel that you can add to your seed modules when you plant on to aid water retention.

I have great hopes for these little things - I just hope that I get my allotment next weekend as planned otherwise I will be looking for a lot of spare space to stick all of my seedlings.

Andy

[Lawrence]

They are very well priced though and usually good quality (although my local Aldi doesn't water the plants so you have to get there soon. Kind of dumb for a budget supermarket to blow profit like that all because they can't spare a bit of water).

I pulled the manager aside about watering them and he said "we just send them back if we don't sell them"
I couldn't get him to grasp the concept that we do want to buy them, just not when its a pot of dust with a stick in it!
Wilkinsons are no better either, if you don't get there in the first week don't bother.