why not suggest something that they can do - e.g. making clothes out of old
2L bottles etc. It seems a shame that they could end up disappointed -
especially if they are trying to get their children interested in
gardening - but they may not be able to afford to write off these plants and
get new ones.

I too get really annoyed at GCs - there are some things that I'd actually
like to buy ready grown but I do not have a green house or enough well lit
room indoors to keep them and the GCs sell them all far, far too early. It
seems like Christmas in that they are getting earlier and earlier each
year - by teh time that it is possible to plant out all this stuff the GCs
will have moved on and will be selling something else

PS - was intending to grow my beans up a wigwam of 6 6 foot canes - is this
wrong? What shoud I grow them up (runner anfd french).

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Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)