Grow Your Own and Beat The Credit Crunch!

Beat the credit crunch in 2009 by growing your own plants from plug plants.

Not only is growing your own plants great fun and extremely rewarding, but with rising food prices, it can also save you a lot of money!

Plug plants are young plants grown in single units in modular trays. This allows for minimum root disturbance when planting / potting on. They are a ready to plant unit, having been professionally nurtured through propagation & early growth stages. This means that we handle the precarious germination stage and you get great value fresh, healthy plants ready to plant out and enjoy

Grow Your Own Bedding Plants

The Economics
A pack of six bedding plants in a garden centre will cost you around £2.99 that’s 50p per plant. A tray of 40 bedding plants plug plants from www.brooksidenursery.co.uk will cost around £4.99 that’s just 12p a plant! Our plug plants are much quicker and easier than growing from seed and could be ready for planting out into the garden or container in as little as 6 weeks (depending on variety and planting date)

40 bedding plants in a garden centre will cost you around £20
40 bedding plants from plug plants will cost you around £5

Grow Your Own Veg

The Economics
A 100g bag of mixed lettuce leaves from a supermarket will cost around £1.50. A pack of 20 of our lettuce plug plants will cost you just double that £2.99. They’re really easy to grow and you can pick off fresh, tasty leaves as and when you need.

The summertime price of 1KG of tomatoes in a supermarket is around £2.00 A pack of 5 tomato plug plants will cost you just £3.99 Making a conservative estimate of one tomato plant yielding 10KG of fruit over the growing season, 5 plants should yield you around 50KG of fruit, that’s £100 worth of tomatoes!

We could quote many more examples, but why not browse our website to see the huge range of plants and flowers that you could grow whilst your bank account grows at the same time!

Questions:

I haven’t got a big garden, can I still grow my own?
Yes! You don’t need a garden at all to enjoy growing your own flowers, plants, veg & herbs. Most varieties will happily grow in a window box, container, patio pot, hanging basket, grow bag etc.

I’ve haven’t grown my own plants before, how hard is it?
It’s easy, it really is! Plug plants are perfect if you’re just starting out, we take away the hassle of planting and looking after fiddly seeds. Our strong, fresh an healthy plug plants are delivered to you in the post at the right time. We also supply full growing instructions so that you’re not left in the dark, and the growing guides section of our website has lots of handy hints & tips.