After all the early season growing media gains and the prospect of a bumper growing year, the first week of Easter has pulled sales of growing media back to level with last year. 

Five years ago, when Easter fell at the same time, not so good weather also accounted for a week-on-week drop in growing media sales. Let’s hope the warmer weather from Easter Monday onwards gets us back into positive territory.

Star performers this week include:

• Vital Earth Organic Garden Compost is the highest new entry this week.
• Scotts Levington Original Gro-bag is this week’s highest chart climber.
• Westland Organic Veg Growing Compost saw the biggest percentage sales increase.