Martin wrote in
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On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:13:38 GMT, Baz wrote:

Sacha wrote in
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On 2013-07-07 10:23:53 +0100, Baz said:

Sacha wrote in
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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.

This is one of those times when some git charges £2.50 for 6 and
another git charges £3.50 for 6. For goodnes sake all are grossly
overpriced. I would pay £1 for 50. If anyone would need to. It
should
be classed as illegal, extortionate, or just pure greed. Yuk.

Baz

We are not greedy, Baz. Please don't expect nurserymen and their
staff to work from 8 in the morning until 5 at night, or later, in
all
weathers, so that you can pay too little for quite a lot. There's a
big difference between making a living and profiteering and
approximately 40p a plant for which someone else has done the basic
work and bought the seed, is hardly expensive! You appear to think
we
should be a charity and give you cheap plants. Like every other
business, we have to pay wages, insurance, taxes, council tax, rates,
oil bills, maintenance and if we're lucky, eat. Just because these
are plants, there are a few people like you who appear to think a
nursery business is just an offshoot of hobby gardening and that they
should be sold for twopence. Very offensive.

I wasn't trying to be offensive, Sacha.
I was saying that £2.50 to 3.50 for six plants is very very very
expensive. We can buy a fully grown lettuce for 60p
With the greatest of respect to you, Sacha, I say that the prices do
not
offer any incentive to grow your own from your young plants at that
ridiculous price.

I am VERY sorry if I have offended you.
Baz

One advantage of buying seedlings is that you can grow a small number
at a time. If you grow from a packet of seeds you either have to sow a
few at a time or have all the lettuces ready to eat at the same time.

NOT at those prices and the pitifully few seedlings. 6 of @41p each!!!

Baz