The signs for gardening activity this year are looking good, according to the GTN Bestsellers Charts for the first week of February.  

Analysis of the weekly Epos data supplied from UK garden centres shows big increases in sales of growing media and garden plant food lines as keener gardeners take the lead and get their season growing already.

Sales volumes of the Top 50 Growing Media lines are the highest we’ve seen for the first six weeks of the year in any of the six years we’ve been collecting data for GTN Bestsellers.

Chicken manure pellets have also rocketed up the sales charts to a Top 5 position one week earlier than last year.

Are you maximising on early bird gardening activity?  The sooner you satisfy the needs of gardeners the sooner they will be telling all their friends and relatives to come and visit you too!

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

• Garden Products – down 14%
• Veg-2-Gro Products – down 20%
• Growing Media – up 35%
• All items index – down 4%