Spring Offers!

What a difference a couple of weeks can make. With the weather in our favour gardening just couldn’t be more enjoyable. Every time I go out a new leaf is out or a new flower in bloom and everyone’s talking outdoor living. Its offer change over time for us at Golden Acres, so as well as having to make some tough choices of what to stock each week (its a hard life when you have so many wonderful things to choose from) our managers now have to find space for even more fantastic gardening goodies at really competitive prices.

My pick of the offers are on Grow Your Own – you can save £15 on selected fruit trees and our Raspberry Canes are £12 for two packs (usually £8.99 a pack).

Carries gone for Garden lighting with style. Steel Post Lights with a saving of £10 per pack, Solar Party Lanterns that will save you £8 off the RRP and we don’t need to say much about her border balls other than they’ll save you £9.50. Definitely more bang for your buck!!! Have a look at our website for the rest...

Happy gardening and enjoy.

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Vegetable Plants & Weber Airstream

Well it is an exciting time for us Gardeners at the moment with all the yummy new plants becoming available each week now. This weeks walk round our nursery revealed a whole tunnel of emerging vegetable plants. We have broad beans, cabbage, brussels sprouts, tomatoes just to name a few... The summer bedding plants are also coming through now, Fuschias and Ivy leaved geraniums are ready for taking home to grow on and the other tub and basket plants aren’t far behind, fingers crossed the sun won’t be either.

With Mothers day here Easter is only just around the corner. It is traditionally one of the biggest week-ends for Garden centres and we’re going all out at John Browns on Easter Saturday with a visit from the Weber Barbeque guys in their retro Airstream land Yacht! They will be giving demonstrations on Barbequeing and opportunities to sample what they’ve cooked up. Carrie has also been busy organising masses of Barbeque offers for the whole week-end so you can get what you need to cook up a feast at retro prices!

http://www.golden-acres-nursery.co.uk/WeberAirstream.html

Gifts For Mothers Day

With only a couple of weeks to go until the Mothering Sunday we’re thinking about our Mums at Golden Acres. Being ‘planty people’, we have some really lovely houseplants and planted arrangements that will last far longer than a bunch of flowers and to suit every budget. Our houseplant chaps have really gone the extra mile this year. I’m going to find it hard to choose. If you really want to spoil your Mum the giftware girls have been busy hand picking some beautiful ranges that will make a truly special gift and we even have some yummy chocolates – Flowers, chocolate and something frivolous, what more could a lady want?

I have made a start on clearing my garden, two trips to the tip and a few broken nails later I was ready to apply some herbicide to my lawn to kill it off ready for the rotavator in a couple of weeks time. I used a product with the active ingredient glyphosate in it as this won’t harm the soil but is systemic which means it will kill the grass and all the weeds down to the roots. Then when the rotavator chops it all up and mixes it in with the soil it shouldn’t grow back where I don’t want it to. I let my neighbours know that I was using a weedkiller so they could keep any pets such as cats that may walk across that area inside for a few hours until it was dry. Once its levelled I’ll be able to put down fresh turf and it should grow where I want it to!