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any gardeners on ere... have any of you bought a load of plug starter plants from those leaflets that get shoved through ya doors or the adverts in the daily mail.. was just looking at some on the tinternet, you buy lets say 60 plants and you get another bundle free...
just wondering what condition they come in when they arrive through the post... most of them come from 'jersey' so shud be pretty gud condition i think. just been to my local garden centre and their small starter plants are roughly 99p or more each.... form jerseydirect you can get 100 plants plus 60 free, for only £9.99. so it may seem worth while ordering online actualy.... you just have to wait for your order tho, it may be a month before you get your plants depending on what type of plants you order as to which season they come out.....
I think my Dad still uses them, most make it ok.
I've dealt with many garden centre plug plants over the years, in several garden centre jobs, but have no experience of the mail-order ones.
The garden centre plugs are definitely over-piced but usually of very good quality and reliability. I suspect the mail-order plugs will be much smaller (so trickier to handle without damaging them) and the % loss will be higher.
Two ways of looking at that: at a tenner for 160 plants, it's still a bargain even if half of them flunk but on the other hand, unless you grow them on before putting them in their final container, you may end up with gaps in your hanging baskets, pots, etc, so they might require a little more work.
Even if you do go for the mail-order plugs, get down to your LGC just to browse the plugs - it's always an awe-inspiring sight to see such a variety of thousands of tiny plants on display.