On 16/06/2015 12:15, Michael Uplawski wrote:
Good afternoon, all.

I read all the messages in this thread and are still waiting for a
definite statement. Unfortunately, carrots are a sensible subject in
Normandy and I cannot make my own experience this year (I may, next
year and tell you about it).

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 22:53:43 +0100,
Roger Tonkin wrote:
Whilst in Homebase this afternoon, I wandered around the garden
bit
(...)
If so how do Homebase justify selling them like
this?

My question is a different one: Why doesn't any of you actually ask them
? If there is something to gain from the communication with so-called
experts, we should by all means hear them.

On the other hand, “experience is the enemy of the better“ (myself
june 2015) and „Experience is nothing! You can do things the wrong way
for 35 years.“ (Kurt Tucholsky, around 1928).

You may not have seen the state of plants in the likes of Homebase.

They offer buy & die plants for sale sometimes already dead before they
leave the shop. It isn't unusual to see trolley loads of plants dying
for lack of water in these places. No point in reasoning with them!

That said there are sometimes (rarely) bargains to be had.

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Regards,
Martin Brown