June 2015, with flaming temperatures at the end of the month, has scorched the GTN Bestsellers record books with all time high sales volumes in all but one of the categories.

The GTN Bestsellers All Products index, which tracks all items sold in garden centres providing Epos data every week, shows June volumes up 13% on last year and 1.4% up on June 2013, the previous record set when we’d had a really poor spring beforehand.

Garden Products sales for June, as measured by the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 volumes, are up 5.6% on last year. And mainly due to the growth of garden lighting products sales, the figures are up 15% on June 2013.

Veg-2-Gro sales have been the star performer of the GTN Bestsellers charts this year. June volumes are up 77% on last year as Grow Your Own using young plants has really taken off in a big way this year.

Only Growing Media Top 50 sales volumes, which are up 15% on June last year, failed to set a new record narrowly missing the volumes sold in 2013.

Everyone agrees it’s been a really good year for gardening so far. With SOLEX taking place next week, the current heat wave couldn’t have come at a better time for a final burst of outdoor living sales to keep the momentum going. See you there.

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...

• Garden Products – up 10%
• Veg-2-Gro Products – up 42%
• Growing Media – up 5%
• All items index – up 9%