Lakeside Plant and Garden Centre in the flood hit area of Telford in Shropshire used social media this weekend with a bit of fun to keep gardeners spirits up.

"Here at Lakeside we are always open to new concepts for the garden. Coming soon this six pack of sponges all you then do is dot them round the garden to soak up excessive water.."

"While trying to attract the gardeners interest at this rather wet time I thought this would be a bit of fun of social media if only to have customers looking at us." Kev from Lakeside Plant and Garden centre told GTN Xtra.

On a more serious note, Steve Harper passed on a key tip for all garden centres following on from all this wet weather.  "Garden Centres should be offering multi-buys of soil conditioners now as the soil structure and all nutrients will have leached out as a result of all this rain."

You can read GTN's full interview with Steve Harper about the Growing Media Responsible Sourcing Scheme using this link