All plant sales volumes in the GTN Bestsellers Epos database for the first week of April were 43% down on 2021 and 3% up on 2019. Year-to-date sales are down just 8% on 2021 and 17% up on 2019.
Veg to grow at home provided good sales impetus with tomato, strawberry, pepper, cucumber, bean, courgette and lettuce plants accounting for 25% of all plants sold last week.
Tomato plants stayed the No.1 bestselling plant, increasing sales by 26% week on week.
Osteospermum moved furthest up the GTN Plants chart, climbing 18 places to No 15.
Bacopa were the highest Top 50 re-entry, back in at No 33.
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