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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fluffywelshsheep on March 27, 2009, 02:34:13 pm

Title: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on March 27, 2009, 02:34:13 pm

okay where is the cheapest place to getgrow bags from ?

tesco £2 (when you can find them in stock)
B&Q £1.49
Aldis £1.19 for organic ones

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: sellickbhoy on March 27, 2009, 03:06:57 pm

uhm, looking at your list i'd say Aldis!!!!


do you really not know how money works??  ;D

guess it all comes dowen to the size of the respective bags being sold there.

i'd always jsut buy one of the bulk bags for £25 - that should last for most of your needs, and takes 2 mins to sieve it if you need fine compost for seeds.

then again - it all comes down to space i guess.

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on March 27, 2009, 03:17:38 pm

lol sorry i guess I worded it wrong
just wondered has anyone seen them for cheaper ?

Normal compost i manage to get it for free it just it very difficult to get the stuff in to used growbags for tom/ courgette etc,(which i have done in the past)


Linz

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: sellickbhoy on March 27, 2009, 03:23:15 pm

why use old grow bags? you could buy a length of timber - something like a a 1" by 2" by 8' length - cut it down to 2 x 3' lengths and 2 x 1 ft lengths.

fit them together with a few screws and you have a 2inch deep 3' by 1' raised bed.

use your old grow bags as a floor liner, tip the compost on top and stick your plants in.

then you can reuse them every year.

would work out cheaper in the long run no?

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: sabrina on March 27, 2009, 03:45:02 pm

Now that is a plan that I like and will try  :)

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: sellickbhoy on March 27, 2009, 03:49:53 pm

i've actually just made one from an old bookcase i had - took out the shelves, added a couple of blocks to the corners to give it some strength

it's a wee bit deeper than i'd need,but the bookcase was for the scrappy, i'll get a year or 2 out of it before it goes on the fire

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on March 27, 2009, 03:51:44 pm

thanks

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: carl on March 27, 2009, 04:22:24 pm

thanks for that tip sb, I now have another task this weekend.i already have loads of bits of timber, i will corden of a bit of the greenhouse and fill it with compost from the heap, sorted. toms and chillis i think.

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: sellickbhoy on March 27, 2009, 04:27:23 pm

Hey Fluffy, sorry to hijack your thread and not give you a direct answer!!!!

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: doganjo on March 27, 2009, 07:28:27 pm

Linz already has a number of raised beds, and got loads of topsoil from the council tips which I have as yet been unable to find ::) - dratted satnav >:( - always gets it wrong. ;D ;D ;D  You'll just ahve to show me soemtime Linz!

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on March 28, 2009, 10:04:38 am

coucil tip in alloa is here

http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/environment/forthbank/ behind the new schooll at the bottom of alloa

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: sellickbhoy on March 28, 2009, 11:00:26 am

oh, the place in Bo'Ness also hands out free compost if you go down to collect it.

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on March 28, 2009, 12:41:04 pm

ok got my grow bags from aldis today also got a waterbutt from their too.

Just need to find some jaruselum artichoke for my next projects a little wrong season for getting the tubars.

linz

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: pegusus pig on March 28, 2009, 12:53:18 pm

Don't know if you have one where you are but netto have grow bags for 99p down here. As for growing things in things (raised beds) I have a number of things reused as planters, tyres are number one (Free from local garage) This years recycle is one of the kids old ride in cars (the wheels have fallen off) and an old rabbit hutch. I just hate throwing things away.  :D :D

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on March 28, 2009, 01:11:18 pm

I noticed that on another forum but yet to find any here.

Title: Re: cheapest place to buy grow bags
Post by: doganjo on March 28, 2009, 09:29:32 pm

ou could try Mansons at kennet or Kwik Fit in Alloa