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We all love the bargains offered by the discount stores but you can’t beat the garden centres for expertise, variety and love of their plants and products.<\/div>\n
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I visited two of my favourite Carlow garden centres today on the way home from the CEB network lunch.\u00a0 I try not to favour any one business when I tell fellow grow your own’rs about the availability of products however I’m a\u00a0great believer of shopping locally where possible and supporting local businesses – particularly now when they need all the support they can get.<\/div>\n

Therefore I’m raving about Morgans Garden Centre<\/a>.\u00a0 When I walked through the\u00a0doors I was\u00a0met by\u00a0a lovely Grow Your Own stand from Burgon and Ball (a UK company so not local) but beautiful products at reasonable prices.\u00a0\u00a0 I bought a jam and sugar thermometer to help me with my so far disastrous efforts at making strawberry jam. An early purchase but you can never find one when you want one.\u00a0 Ian has fallen in love with this tool and tuck box above.<\/p>\n

Morgan’s also have a great range of vegetable seeds and composts.\u00a0 While I was there I had\u00a0a really\u00a0informative chat with Bernie,\u00a0their expert horticulturist about planting hanging baskets before moving onto my second garden centre\u00a0of the afternoon – Arboretum Lifestyle & Garden Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"WhereOn a much larger scale than Morgans, Arboretum are on my own doorstep and are really\u00a0getting into the grow your own market.\u00a0 As well as stocking vegetable plants of all descriptions\u00a0and associated products too (I picked up an instant mini pH tester from them today) they’ve just opened up a vegetable garden, which is being run in conjunction with the Sue Nunn Show on KCLR.<\/p>\n

The raised beds are all fully planted and the\u00a0converted area\u00a0also\u00a0houses a chicken enclosure.\u00a0 Ger and Eamon are on hand to give out expert advice\u00a0(both have their own vegetable gardens – Ger grows organic vegetables\u00a0and Eamon has an enormous\u00a0designer vegetable garden.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t talk about my\u00a0favourite garden supply shops without mentioning Highbank Organic Orchards<\/a>.\u00a0 They’re slightly further afield\u00a0at Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny however well worth the trip for organic growers.\u00a0\u00a0The Organic Farm Shop has a great range of very reasonable priced\u00a0products\u00a0– from potatoes to green manures, organic slug pellets and insecticidal soap.\u00a0 They also sell horticultural fleece, wind fabric and weed membrane\u00a0by the roll\u00a0or by the\u00a0metre and are the cheapest I’ve found to date. And it’s impossible to leave without buying a bottle of Julie’s delicious organic apple juice.<\/p>\n

Keep up the great work guys…\u00a0the more great products that are easily available locally,\u00a0the more people are likely to\u00a0get growing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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