On Saturday, July 6, 2013 5:28:35 PM UTC+1, Sacha wrote:
Ray was really incensed the other day to see that another nursery with

a fifth of our staff, is charging �3.50 for a pack of 6 baby lettuces.

Ours are �2.50 and there is absonlutely no justification in organic

being more expensive at this stage in their growth! The compost they're

grown in (if different) may be slightly more costly, but that would add

maybe 1p to the whole tray! But while I can understand fully grown

organic veg being more expensive as their care, treatment and

harvesting take more man hours, this is absolutely not the case with

lettuce plants a couple of inches high. This gives organic growers a

bad name though thankfully, not all do this.

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Sacha

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Try costing it out on realistic, and I mean realistic,
figures and you might change you tune - the 'ingredients'
and labour are NOT a nil...


Jenny in Bristol