83% average weekly increase since re-opening for growing media
While the heavy rain and thunderstorms put some people off going to garden centres, those that did were still invested in buying growing media. As a result sales for last week were up 93% on the same week last year.
After 14 weeks since re-opening with growing media sales up by an average of 83% each week, we only need to see an average weekly increase of 40% between now and Christmas to end the year at parity vs 2019 sales.
Highlights of the week were:
Westland Cacti & Succulent Potting Mix was the highest climber of the week moving up to No 21, reflecting increased interest in houseplants.
Melcourt SylvaGrow Peat Free Multipurpose 50 litres moved 19 places up the chart, one of nine peat free compost lines in the GTN Top 50.
Westland Gro-Sure Easy Container Compost 50 litres saw the biggest increase of the Top 5 lines, up by 58% to be the No 4 Bestselling line of the week.