Fruit Bush Clearance at BeanQ

[skeggijon]

Nipped into Skeg BeanQ today to be confronted by loads of fruit bushes in pots, which have been reduced to £1 each!
Got 6 Tayberry, 4 Blueberry, 4 Gooseberry and 12 Autumn Raspberry. Dunno if its just Skegness store, but there's nothing wrong with them - the staff just said they'd been told to clear them all

[veggiechicken]

Thanks for the tip off- Skeggi - tomorrow's 10% discount day for us oldies too

[Bigmallly]

They'll be wanting to make space for the Christmad stock.................

[Scarlet]

Got 6 Tayberry, 4 Blueberry, 4 Gooseberry and 12 Autumn Raspberry. Dunno if its just Skegness store, but there's nothing wrong with them - the staff just said they'd been told to clear them all

6 Tayberry! They are huuuuge...well mine is!

[skeggijon]

^^^^^^^^The bigger the better - I've got plenty of space round the edge of my plot. Would have got more, but was scared of what the OH would say. I only nipped in for some strimmer line.

[veggiechicken]

No reduced fruit bushes at the 2 I went to but I did buy 7 big square planters for £1 each and 3 x 6 packs of herbs @ £3 each. Not an entirely wasted journey

[fishpond]

Nothing on offer at my local one, still all a £5, with some very poor/dead looking specimens among them.

[NatalieCooke]

I picked up a grafted tomato plant for 50p! I bought it for my 2 year goddaughter but I wanted to keep it myself

[starloc]

They are all still at full price in the one local to us in Liverpool, but found some reduced plants,

a honeysuckle that needed watering for 50p and 3 trays of the strawberry plants marked at £6 a tray and again needed watering and cost £1.30 a tray,

18 strawberry plants full of green fruit and very healthy apart from needing some water for £3.90....but came through as buy 2 get one free so cost £2.60 for the 3 trays

[Jay22]

I never understand why these places don't take care of their plants! They must lose a heck of a lot of money, not to mention good plants going to waste...makes me mad!

[Nicos]

It's especially like that over here Jay.
...apparently ...it's always someone else's job to do the watering

...and they stay at full price until they are a dried up stick in a shrivelled, rock hard piece of compost.
VERY frustrating indeed

[veggiechicken]

These retailers should clear their shelves of dying stock - it looks bad when you see how little attention they give the plants.
I'd welcome the chance to take all their unsaleable plants (free), bring them back to life and rehome them to a charity or summat.
I can see it now "VC's Plant hospital - a convalescent home for the sick and needy".

[BUFFS]

They'll be wanting to make space for the Christmad stock.................

or easter eggs....