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Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced.
I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 |
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On 16/08/2013 14:14, David Hill wrote:
Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 Don't people grow their own greens from seeds any more? The only time I've bought plants (locally) is on the rare occasion my seeds have failed to germinate or I've forgot to plant them. -- David in Normandy. |
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"David in Normandy" wrote in message ... On 16/08/2013 14:14, David Hill wrote: Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 Don't people grow their own greens from seeds any more? The only time I've bought plants (locally) is on the rare occasion my seeds have failed to germinate or I've forgot to plant them. I do. Mind you, we only need a few plants of broccoli for two of us, but a packet of seed lasts several seasons and still manages to germinate well, it seems. The trays of ready grown plants I saw in the local garden centres looked starved and pitiful things compared to mine, so it made me feel like a proper gardener to have grown my own. :) -- Sue |
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On 2013-08-16 12:14:57 +0000, David Hill said:
Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 I remember when a lot of things were sensibly priced but unfortunately, wages were very low and so were expectations. Young people marrying didn't *expect* to buy a house immediately but certainly expected to rent for quite a while. Nor did they 'put off' having a baby until they'd bought a house and furnished it completely, as some do now. Did employers pay social security stamps back in e.g. the 50s? I just don't know but they have to pay all those things now and, imo, it's essential but of course, there's a knock-on effect. Now, things have gone full circle and I know some young living and working in this area who never expect to own their own homes because property here is just so expensive. Food prices have roared upwards and e.g their own cooked, sliced ham is £17 per kg from our local butcher because the price of pig food has gone up, for example. There's a famous gardener whose prices for absolutely everything leave us simply breathless and we can guarantee that a large amount of that goes in advertising and glossy catalogues. The power of telly…! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 16/08/2013 19:28, sacha wrote:
On 2013-08-16 12:14:57 +0000, David Hill said: Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 I remember when a lot of things were sensibly priced but unfortunately, wages were very low and so were expectations. Young people marrying didn't *expect* to buy a house immediately but certainly expected to rent for quite a while. Nor did they 'put off' having a baby until they'd bought a house and furnished it completely, as some do now. Did employers pay social security stamps back in e.g. the 50s? I just don't know but they have to pay all those things now and, imo, it's essential but of course, there's a knock-on effect. Now, things have gone full circle and I know some young living and working in this area who never expect to own their own homes because property here is just so expensive. Food prices have roared upwards and e.g their own cooked, sliced ham is £17 per kg from our local butcher because the price of pig food has gone up, for example. There's a famous gardener whose prices for absolutely everything leave us simply breathless and we can guarantee that a large amount of that goes in advertising and glossy catalogues. The power of telly…! Yes National Insurance "Stamp" was paid by both employer and employee, but in those days you got no benefit till you had 26 stamps on your card. Also you bought most plants at the right time and bare rooted, it was introducing so much container grown, and much of it from outside the UK that both pushed up prices and brought a lot of pests and diseases into this country and spread to so many domestic gardens. Though you did grow a range of rockery and herbaceous plants "Pot Grown", and you bought them from Nurseries. |
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David I think you will find that Blaby Roses in Leicester were the first to
sell pot grown Roses and that was way back when we bought out first house in August 1960 Mike "David Hill" wrote in message ... On 16/08/2013 19:28, sacha wrote: On 2013-08-16 12:14:57 +0000, David Hill said: Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 I remember when a lot of things were sensibly priced but unfortunately, wages were very low and so were expectations. Young people marrying didn't *expect* to buy a house immediately but certainly expected to rent for quite a while. Nor did they 'put off' having a baby until they'd bought a house and furnished it completely, as some do now. Did employers pay social security stamps back in e.g. the 50s? I just don't know but they have to pay all those things now and, imo, it's essential but of course, there's a knock-on effect. Now, things have gone full circle and I know some young living and working in this area who never expect to own their own homes because property here is just so expensive. Food prices have roared upwards and e.g their own cooked, sliced ham is £17 per kg from our local butcher because the price of pig food has gone up, for example. There's a famous gardener whose prices for absolutely everything leave us simply breathless and we can guarantee that a large amount of that goes in advertising and glossy catalogues. The power of telly…! Yes National Insurance "Stamp" was paid by both employer and employee, but in those days you got no benefit till you had 26 stamps on your card. Also you bought most plants at the right time and bare rooted, it was introducing so much container grown, and much of it from outside the UK that both pushed up prices and brought a lot of pests and diseases into this country and spread to so many domestic gardens. Though you did grow a range of rockery and herbaceous plants "Pot Grown", and you bought them from Nurseries. |
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On 16/08/2013 19:51, 'Mike' wrote:
David I think you will find that Blaby Roses in Leicester were the first to sell pot grown Roses and that was way back when we bought out first house in August 1960 Mike I remember when a lot of things were sensibly priced but unfortunately, wages were very low and so were expectations. Young people marrying didn't *expect* to buy a house immediately but certainly expected to rent for quite a while. Nor did they 'put off' having a baby until they'd bought a house and furnished it completely, as some do now. Did employers pay social security stamps back in e.g. the 50s? I just don't know but they have to pay all those things now and, imo, it's essential but of course, there's a knock-on effect. Yes National Insurance "Stamp" was paid by both employer and employee, but in those days you got no benefit till you had 26 stamps on your card. Also you bought most plants at the right time and bare rooted, it was introducing so much container grown, and much of it from outside the UK that both pushed up prices and brought a lot of pests and diseases into this country and spread to so many domestic gardens. Though you did grow a range of rockery and herbaceous plants "Pot Grown", and you bought them from Nurseries. Savcha asked about the 50's and that is the era I was talking about. |
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On 2013-08-16 19:42:23 +0100, David Hill said:
On 16/08/2013 19:28, sacha wrote: On 2013-08-16 12:14:57 +0000, David Hill said: Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 I remember when a lot of things were sensibly priced but unfortunately, wages were very low and so were expectations. Young people marrying didn't *expect* to buy a house immediately but certainly expected to rent for quite a while. Nor did they 'put off' having a baby until they'd bought a house and furnished it completely, as some do now. Did employers pay social security stamps back in e.g. the 50s? I just don't know but they have to pay all those things now and, imo, it's essential but of course, there's a knock-on effect. Now, things have gone full circle and I know some young living and working in this area who never expect to own their own homes because property here is just so expensive. Food prices have roared upwards and e.g their own cooked, sliced ham is £17 per kg from our local butcher because the price of pig food has gone up, for example. There's a famous gardener whose prices for absolutely everything leave us simply breathless and we can guarantee that a large amount of that goes in advertising and glossy catalogues. The power of telly…! Yes National Insurance "Stamp" was paid by both employer and employee, but in those days you got no benefit till you had 26 stamps on your card. Also you bought most plants at the right time and bare rooted, it was introducing so much container grown, and much of it from outside the UK that both pushed up prices and brought a lot of pests and diseases into this country and spread to so many domestic gardens. Though you did grow a range of rockery and herbaceous plants "Pot Grown", and you bought them from Nurseries. I do remember that so much was autumn planted, probably from my maternal grandfather. But he grew all his own veg etc. though I don't recall a greenhouse. I do remember a large sieve he used to make compost for seeds, I suppose? Most of his garden was fruit & veg - not a big garden, though bigger than some modern plots - and the 'front garden' was paved with a flower bed in the middle and aubrietia growing out of the wall. My paternal grandparents had bigger gardens, one of them being a Rectory and that was also producing a lot of veg and fruit. There was a lovely old lean-to greenhouse with a big grapevine in it. One of my earliest memories is being taken to see a blackbird's nest in the brambles trained against a wall, from which my grandmother made bramble jelly, as my mother did later in another house. My personal recollection was that everyone with a bit of ground grew their own food as much as possible. I just wish I remembered more detail. Everything was still rationed when I was little so providing as much as you could from your own resources must have been terribly important then. My grandmother shook Jersey milk 'topping' up in a jar to produce butter and it took her hours to do it, to supplement the butter ration. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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David Hill wrote:
Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 In my local Garden Nursery they are asking £2.99 for 9 small leek plants. Diabolical! Peter -- - The e-mail address obviously doesn't exist. If it's essential that you contact me then try peterATpfjamesDOTcoDOTuk |
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"Peter James" wrote in message m... In my local Garden Nursery they are asking £2.99 for 9 small leek plants. Diabolical! Peter 80p for twenty in Nantwich Market recently (:-) Been busy planting them up in grow bags in the greenhouse as well as in the veg. plot. Pete |
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@mid.individual.net: Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 Robbery. Should be made illegal. Baz |
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On 2013-08-17 06:56:38 +0000, Peter James said:
David Hill wrote: Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 In my local Garden Nursery they are asking £2.99 for 9 small leek plants. Diabolical! Peter £3.99 for 12 organic veg plants is what I saw today. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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"David Hill" wrote in message ... Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 I can remember buying spuds for my mother, in the shop someone asked how many pounds for 6d (old money) The reply was 5lbs.!!!! Bill |
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On 19/08/2013 21:07, Bill Grey wrote:
"David Hill" wrote in message ... Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 I can remember buying spuds for my mother, in the shop someone asked how many pounds for 6d (old money) The reply was 5lbs.!!!! Bill I remember we sold spuds for 10/- a sack( 56lbs) for years till we went decimal. David @ a rain free side of Swansea bay |
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