Welcome to 2026!

The shop is now open as normal again – 10-12 on Saturday mornings.

Thanks to those members who ordered the above, most orders have now been collected although there are several potato orders remaining. It would be helpful if these could be collected shortly – a separate email will be sent to those with orders remaining.

We have potatoes / onions and shallots in stock but relatively limited quantities as we aim to sell most by pre-order.

Potatoes are £4 per 2KG and onions and shallots are £1.50p / 250g bags.

Due to popular demand, we are also stocking smaller packs of Charlotte and Desiree varieties with 5 or 6 tubers per pack (£1/500g). We have limited supplies of these too.

These are suitable to be grown in our 30l potato post which have proved very successful for a number of members.

We have received our delivery form Melcourts and are stocking the same as last year with their standard multipurpose (£7/40l) and with John Innes (£7.50/40l).

We also have one pallet (60 bags left) of their new seed and cutting compost which was very popular last year (£7/40l).

When we have all the potatoes collected (and so have some room) we will also be buying more Rocketgro products.

Our 30% off offer for Kings is still running (see here for details). Their prices continue to creep up but still offer very good value. We were offered a 50% off deal for Thompson and Morgan but a comparison showed these were still much more expensive than Kings when both discounts were applied and so we will stick with Kings. We have catalogues in the shop if anyone hasn’t been sent one by Kings.

Their postage has increased to £2.35 now but members are welcome to place small orders of one or two packets through the shop to avoid this – we will add these to the monthly shop orders.

We have also extended the range of ‘bulk’ seeds we offer at 50p to include more of the popular varieties we sold as packets from Kings to offer better value for members.

The full list of the varieties we will be stocking through the year is below:

Plant sale – last Saturday of May – 30th this year.

Annual Wisley trip – Probably in June, details to be sent out closer to the time.

AGM – Thursday 12th November

Our annual plea for members to give up a couple of hours on a Saturday morning every 2 years or so to help keep the club going! We mainly need people to help load up bags of compost etc. into members cars or help with the till.

Please contact Terry at shoprota@wantagegardeners.org.uk if you can help.

Thanks

Wisley Visit – Saturday 18th April. £20 incl. Coach and entry.

Contact June –   June@henville.net – for details and ticket availability

To dig or not to dig, that is the question By: Alan McPherson