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Small bags of growing media up by 207%

Garden centre sales of growing media have been 60% up year on year in the five weeks since re-opening.  That means the GTN Bestsellers Growing Media Index for year to date volume sales is now at 25% behind last year having been 50% down in the week before re-opening.

 

This weeks sales analysis shows a high number of “small” bag sales as customers buy whatever growing media they can get their hands on to feed their gardening activity.  In the GTN chart for the second week of June 2020, 51% of the growing media volume sold was in bags of 40 litres or less.  That is a 207% increase compared to the same week last year when only 38% was sold in “small” bags.

  • Evergreen Garden Care Levington Multi Purpose with John Innes 40 litres jumps 15 places up the GTN Chart to No 1.
  • Bulrush have two new chart entries with their John Innes lines in 25 litre packs at No’s 41 and 50.
  • Bubbling under the Top 50 are several peat free lines from Melcourt.  As they get wider distribution perhaps we will see a significant increase in peat free compost lines during this summer.

 

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Mark Yates Yates
this is because scotts are only supplying 40 l bags