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Newsletter - 25 April
New Trip Offer – Thenford Gardens and Arboretum – Friday 11th July.
As most of you will know, we have offered a visit to Wisley at various times of the year over recent years and these have been very well received.
We will aim to organise a visit to Wisley again later in the year and thought we would offer another destination for the Summer. Several members have commented what a great day out they have had at Thenford (nr Banbury) and so we have looked into this.
This visit will inevitably be more expensive than Wisley (as we are entitled to free entry there) but we will minimise costs as far as possible.
We will need to get enough people to fill a coach and so please reply to Theresa at thenford@wantagegardeners.org.uk if you are interested and we will confirm or cancel in a few of weeks depending on interest.
We plan to visit on Friday 11th July and the cost will be £40 including coach and garden entry. There will be pick ups in Grove and Wantage similar to with the Wisley trips. The coach will also be the same as we book for Wisley (with toilet facilities) and the journey should be about 1 hour.
Please take a look at their web site here for more information about the gardens, arboretum and woodlands. Let us know if you are interested.
Sheeps Wool Sale (Again)
The trailer of sheep’s wool fleeces we acquired a couple of weeks ago was very popular went quickly – due to its’ success we will have a smaller quantity available again this week (1 bulk bag) if anyone is still interested. We have run out of sacks to pack it into so you will need to provide a means of taking it home.
Plant Sale Season is here!
There are a number of plant sales coming up, details are below in date order.
Saturday 26th April 2 – 4:30 – Letcombe Regis Village Hall (Letcombes Gardening Club)
Plant Stalls, Advice and tips, Gardening Sundries, Tea and Cake.
Saturday 10th May – 11 – 2 – Outside Boars Head Ardington
Unusual tomatoes, herbs, annuals, perennials, houseplants and more!
Proceeds shared between Parkinsons.Me and The Mint House, Oxford Restorative Practice Centre
Sunday 11th May – 1 – 3:30 Root and Branch Westmill, Watchfield SN6 8TH
A range of grasses, herbs, annuals, perennials and vegetable plants. Rural crafts to buy and wood turning display.
Saturday 17th May – 10 – 1 WHGC Plant Trail, Uffington
A plant sale trail around Uffington, start at the Church for a map!
Sunday 18th May – Wantage Market Garden, Charlton, Wantage
Free entry, plants for sale, kids games, Free entry!
31st May – WGA Plant sale (saved the best for last 😉)
Our plant sale at the hut.
Newsletter - 28 March
RocketGro Composts back in stock!
We have now received our first pallets of Rocketgro multipurpose and supersized veg planters.
Prices remain as last year:
This has been very popular with members and remains our most competitively priced compost.
New Seed Lines and Strawberry Plants
We offered discounted strawberry plants a few weeks ago and these were very popular. We have a few extras bought to make up the numbers and will have these for sale at £4 / 5 on 29/3 only (the plants are bare rooted and need to be planted immediately).
They will be sold on first come/ first served basis at the shop only.
If you pre-ordered, you should have received an email confirming they are available for collection.
We have added (yellow) courgette ‘Atena Polka’ F1 to our now long list of 50p seed packs – for some reason these are very expensive as packets from Kings so we thought we would try them as bulk seeds.
We are also now stocking Phacelia – this is an amazing bee friendly plant / green manure / soil improver. More info here and here . Our 50p pack will cover 10m2. Sow from now through to the end of the season.
Our full list of ‘bulk’ seeds (all at 50p per packet) is below.
We also still have some Charlotte and Desiree potatoes available in ½ Kg bags @ £1.
Small Yew Trees for Sale
One of our members has around 45 small yew trees that he no longer requires and would like to sell on. He is asking around £200 for them but is open to offers. If you are interested, please contact us on news@wantagegardeners.org.uk and we will pass your email on.
Newsletter - 21st February
Potatoes / Onions / Shallots
We have now had out potatoes delivered and lots have been sold as pre-orders, we have mainly Charlotte and Desiree left with a few odds and ends.
Each year we also get requests for smaller quantities of tubers and so we are trying selling 500g packs (approximately 5 tubers) for just £1. We have lots of these left, hopefully they will be popular.
We also have lots of onions and shallots in stock – we have also halved the size of these packs as they were too big for most users (we have halved the price too!)
Our approximate stock levels are as below:
As you can see – not very much left, you can reserve your choice online or come along to the shop ASAP.
Following many requests for smaller packs of potatoes you can see we are also trying ½ Kg packs of the most popular varieties (Charlotte and Desiree) . Hopefully these will be popular.
We also still have a few of the 30L buckets to grow these in and lots of compost to fill these up with.
Composts
We have Melcourt composts in stock (Multipurpose / JI and Seed& cutting) and expect to re-stock with Rocketgro multipurpose and planters in the next week or so.
Seed and cutting compost is selling well and we wont be buying any more of this in this year – about 30 bags left today.
See you at the shop soon