Thompson & Morgan 10 Strawberry TSV 05/03/13

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So, including p&p, that's £18 near enough for ten plants. Very expensive.
If you want strawberry plants, pop along to your friendly, local Aldi this week. You even get a basket to grow them in for good measure for roughly quarter the price.

SCW,I'm sure you're sweet (& fruity :nod:) enough to not need strawberry plants for your birthday.
 
Breeze said:
So, including p&p, that's £18 near enough for ten plants. Very expensive.
If you want strawberry plants, pop along to your friendly, local Aldi this week. You even get a basket to grow them in for good measure for roughly quarter the price.

SCW,I'm sure you're sweet (& fruity :nod:) enough to not need strawberry plants for your birthday.
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hehe i was having a good laugh at it acutally what they goin to do stick a candle in one and sing happy birthday acutally i think my birthday might be more intresting LOOOOL
 
I won't be buying. I've twice bought strawberry plants from QVC and I think I've had three or four strawberries - not the piles of them that Richard Jackson implied. Jersey Plants Direct are doing 12 jumbo strawberry plants for £14.98 with free delivery - if I'm allowed to say that.

Other plants I've had from QVC have been very good but just not the strawbs.

CC
 
By the time any strawberries are ready to eat (that's if you get more than about 3), they'll cost next to nothing in the supermarket.
 
Is there anything RJ does not get excited about mind you he can afford to the cash he rakes in for himself and QVC some people are very easily taken in but good luck to them.
 
Have tried strawberries from qvc in the past without great results but to be fair it could be the climate here or i am just a rubbish gardener,no need for anyone to comment thanks.
 
If anyone gets the crops they suggest you can I will eat my hat! I can get about that over a period of weeks from 26 plants. But I never get more and I usually get less! The variety is good though and should crop well in our moody summers.

Happy Birthday SCW. I hope you enjoy your day. The sun is shining here. In your honour :eek:)

Bet my birthday TSV will be a bloody mop or a Hoover.
 
as far as I could tell, and I wasn't listening intently, he gives very few growing tips. I think growing strawbs can be a lot of work - need to keep them well-watered but safe from wet conditions, snails and slugs, from birds (without them getting ensnared in any netting) and dealing with runners. Also I think they are being sold a tad too early unless they are on advanced orders (I didn't notice).

Also the guest selling geraniums described them as half-hardy perennials - I've never known anyone keep geraniums over winter and get them growing the next summer, it would be difficult to get them looking as they did when "new".

They talk a load of clap-trap (Mum's word from up north).

Linda xx

PS I know I could switch off but I like their garden tools so wait in hope to see something to buy !
 
No need to switch off if you enjoy gardening its RJ flogging all his products that gets on my wick but hey ho i watch anyway because i love gardening.
 
ERICS MUM said:
as far as I could tell, and I wasn't listening intently, he gives very few growing tips. I think growing strawbs can be a lot of work - need to keep them well-watered but safe from wet conditions, snails and slugs, from birds (without them getting ensnared in any netting) and dealing with runners. Also I think they are being sold a tad too early unless they are on advanced orders (I didn't notice).

Also the guest selling geraniums described them as half-hardy perennials - I've never known anyone keep geraniums over winter and get them growing the next summer, it would be difficult to get them looking as they did when "new".

They talk a load of clap-trap (Mum's word from up north).

Linda xx

PS I know I could switch off but I like their garden tools so wait in hope to see something to buy !
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I keep geraniums over winter.
Some I've had for about eight years & are really big now, mostly special ones that I bought from a geranium nursery. You need to keep them frost free, I move them into an unheated porch, & better kept on the dry side. In spring I cut them back & use the off cuts as cuttings to make new plants.
If you feed them well the big ones get huge amounts of blooms, better every year.

All the people I know who show geraniums keep their best varieties over winter.
 
I've no problems with Richard Jackson himself, I've been watching him for years and I personally really like him. However, I do think he could be a bit more helpful in advising which conditions are best for growing. What grows well in Southampton might not be brilliant in Shetland and so on. Also, I think more needs to be said about cold weather, wet weather, plants that snails will/won't eat etc. I've found this out from trial and error but I could have saved a bit of money if I'd known that I will never grow strawberries, dahlias or marigolds but raspberries, lilies and begonias are beautiful.

CC
 
Tinkerbelle said:
If anyone gets the crops they suggest you can I will eat my hat! I can get about that over a period of weeks from 26 plants. But I never get more and I usually get less! The variety is good though and should crop well in our moody summers.

Happy Birthday SCW. I hope you enjoy your day. The sun is shining here. In your honour :eek:)

Bet my birthday TSV will be a bloody mop or a Hoover.
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yeah there could of been worse birthday tsvs for me
 
ERICS MUM said:
as far as I could tell, and I wasn't listening intently, he gives very few growing tips. I think growing strawbs can be a lot of work - need to keep them well-watered but safe from wet conditions, snails and slugs, from birds (without them getting ensnared in any netting) and dealing with runners. Also I think they are being sold a tad too early unless they are on advanced orders (I didn't notice).

Also the guest selling geraniums described them as half-hardy perennials - I've never known anyone keep geraniums over winter and get them growing the next summer, it would be difficult to get them looking as they did when "new".

They talk a load of clap-trap (Mum's word from up north).

Linda xx

PS I know I could switch off but I like their garden tools so wait in hope to see something to buy !
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I grew strawberries for the first time last year. They were in a raised bed and did not get great results - but perhaps last year was particularly bad due to cold summer. I live in Surrey - would appreciate any tips to get a better crop this year.
 
ERICS MUM said:
PS I know I could switch off but I like their garden tools so wait in hope to see something to buy !
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The best garden tool I've bought from QVC is the Golden Gark. I'm surrounded by protected trees and have an oak tree in my garden. In Autumn I feel very special :eek: because everyone's leaves arrive in my garden as soon as the wind blows. With those ones and all the leaves from my oak I make weekly visits to the recycling centre (they know me well now :wink:) After two years of faffing about with a broom and a spade I bought the gark and it's fantastic! It's one of the only things I've bought from QVC where it actually does what it says on the tin (apart from Revitalash of course :wink:)

And with regards to the TSV - although they look delicious, I have no intention of feeding the local slugs and so will buy my strawberries from the supermarket. :grin:
 
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Happy Birthday SCW - what TSV would you rather have had than strawberries to mark your special day?
DJ x
 
I have had 2 different types of strawberries from QVC and never even had a small bowl at once off either.
 

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