In This Issue
Garden centres survive wettest ever January with record sales
Learn e-tail secrets from the High Street's big guns
Lanterns and torches brighten mid-winter gloom
A flying start waiting to happen...?
GIMA promote careers talk on horticulture
John Innes retains a grip on growing media
Dutch and Brits meet to discuss 'working together'
'Good bugs' could hold key to cabbage root fly problem
Squire's Santas raise £18k for charity
GCA 2014 conference hits all the right notes
A quick look-back at GCA conference as Barton Grange Preston is named Destination Garden Centre of the Year
Cowell's picks up the coveted Garden Centre of the Year Award
£9,600 raised as Pansies beat Cabbages in 4th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup
Pippa to speak on grow-your-own at The Edible Garden Show
Carol Paris reveals how HTA and GCA are working together to promote gardening
Out-going GCA chairman takes up new role at Trelawney Garden Leisure
Boyd adds 6 centres to Hillview
Work to start on Probus Garden Centre in March
Jude Law, David Tennant and other stars present the Garden Re-Leaf Day quiz for 2014
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
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John Innes retains a grip on growing media
Two products are showing sales increases of at least 10-fold compared to last week - Arthur Bowers New Horizon Compact Coir 40L, a re-entry at No.34, and the same brand’s Clavering Horse Manure, which did enough to creep in at No.50.

Meanwhile, New Horizon Multi-Purpose 50L and Westland Multipurpose 75L both enjoyed sales lifts of at least 500%.

Note how John Innes still holds sway with early-season buyers; 13 of this week’s Top 50 include a John Innes element. (Of course the original John Innes formula specifies peat as an ingredient. What will happen, come 2020, if peat does finally become a proscribed substance for growing media?).

Westland’s peat-based ‘Jack’s Magic’ all-purpose continued to outsell all others in this week’s chart.

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