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If you are interested in buying a Quadgrow system, DT Brown/Mr Fothergills have a sale on at the moment. The 8 pot system has been reduced from £106.95 to £85.56, and if you sign up for their newsletter (perhaps under a different e-mail address, if you've signed up before *wink wink*) you can get an extra 20% off, and delivery is free. Comes to £68.45 altogether.
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(17-04-2025, 05:01 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: If you are interested in buying a Quadgrow system, DT Brown/Mr Fothergills have a sale on at the moment. The 8 pot system has been reduced from £106.95 to £85.56, and if you sign up for their newsletter (perhaps under a different e-mail address, if you've signed up before *wink wink*) you can get an extra 20% off, and delivery is free. Comes to £68.45 altogether.
A good offer but still eye-watering. I think I'll talk myself out of it on the grounds I don't really need it. Tempting though.
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(Yesterday, 10:10 AM)JJB Wrote: (17-04-2025, 05:01 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: If you are interested in buying a Quadgrow system, DT Brown/Mr Fothergills have a sale on at the moment. The 8 pot system has been reduced from £106.95 to £85.56, and if you sign up for their newsletter (perhaps under a different e-mail address, if you've signed up before *wink wink*) you can get an extra 20% off, and delivery is free. Comes to £68.45 altogether.
A good offer but still eye-watering. I think I'll talk myself out of it on the grounds I don't really need it. Tempting though. I wouldn't have bought at full price, but I was looking at making my own version anyway and 4 x 36L black boxes with lids, strong enough to rest at least 2 x 10L pots plus the weight of the tomato plants on top, would've cost me £40+. The lids on the cheap IKEA ones I use for Kratky hydroponics are way too flimsy to have anything heavy on top, so I would need to buy plywood or OSB to act as lids instead. I would've also had to buy capillary matting/wicking rope.
I don't think many of my grafted tomatoes are going to survive, and I don't want another year of disappointment growing non-grafted varieties in the greenhouse soil, so it was worth it for my situation. Also, the rootstock seed would cost £10+ per year, and grafting involves a lot of time and effort (for me, anyway  ).
We bought an 8 pot system as a birthday present for my auntie last year, and it's a well made product which should last a long time. The only consumables are the fertiliser and the capillary matting, which I can buy relatively cheaply from elsewhere.
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T&M £10 off when you spend £20 . Offer with Gardener's World. https://www.thompson-morgan.com/gw-10off-20spend
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Half price Lamb & Beef at most supermarkets for an Easter treat!  (They may have a few veggies cheap as well)
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(9 hours ago)Vinny Wrote: Half price Lamb & Beef at most supermarkets for an Easter treat! (They may have a few veggies cheap as well) Most of the super markets have 8p/15p vegetables for sale. I splashed out on an 8p swede.
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8p swede, 15p beans and 3 pks of 8p Parsnips. Normally the Parsnips are 85p a pkt, I don't bother buying then.
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Kings Seeds
20% OFF SEEDS
Order your seeds before 9am on Tuesday, April 22 and Kings Seeds will give you 20% off when you use the discount code EAST2025 at the checkout online! www.kingsseeds.com
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