Using growing media sales as an indictaor of growing activity we can confidently say that early season activity is 25% up both on last year and on 2019’s pre-pandemic levels.
Last week’s sales in the GTN Bestsellers Growing Media Top 50 were 47% up on the same week in 2019 and only 5% below last year’s levels.
With high levels of young veg and in particular tomato plants selling through as soon as they reach centres there must be a great opportunity for increased sales of go-bag planters and the like.
Highlights of the week were:
Westland Erin Multipurpose Compost 50 litres stays at No 1 for the third week.
Evergreen Garden Care Miracle-Gro Ericaceous Peat Free Compost is the highest chart climber, up 15 places to No 30.
Evergreen Garden Care Tomorite Giant Planter 52 litres is the highest placed gro-bag planter, but only at No 17.
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