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Marionb

Joined: 27 Aug 2006
Posts: 5267
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 07 7:52 pm Post subject:
Sounds good Mrs p!!! I think I will shut up from now on and let hubby get stuff from Aldi if he wants to I usually try to put him off saying "it wont last 5 minutes...

mrs p

Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Posts: 34

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 07 7:59 pm Post subject:

Marionb wrote:

Sounds good Mrs p!!! I think I will shut up from now on and let hubby get stuff from Aldi if he wants to

I usually try to put him off saying "it wont last 5 minutes...

hubbies computer got hin through his degree course[2:2 whilst holdng down a full time job, sorry still so proud]

honestly i got their spade and fork set last year, and they didnt bend when i put my not inconsiderable weight on them

marionb, i also usually say buy cheap buy twice, so i certainly wouldnt say good if it was pap

katie

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 713
Location: midlands

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 07 8:04 pm Post subject:
I notice that Lidl will be selling packs of hardy perennials (3 per pack) for 69p. No wonder so many of my grower friends have gone/are going out of business. Most of the cheap plants come from Holland where growers get all kinds of subsidies from the government.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 07 10:21 pm Post subject:

Marionb wrote:

So what do you reckon on this cheap stuff from Aldi... is it worth buying then?? I tend to believe that you get what you pay for ...

It would be a mistake to think that *everything* on offer from Lidl and/or Aldi is fantastic.
Or that its all rubbish.

Some discriminatory foraging is worthwhile.
There definitely is some very good stuff, and sadly there is some bad.

To generalise would be to mislead.
However as many offers come round again, one can act on specific recommendations...

Windymiller

Joined: 02 Apr 2006
Posts: 550
Location: West Wales

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 07 11:34 pm Post subject:

Years ago, Mrs W bought plants and gadgets from Bakker in Lincs, or thereabouts. Most proved to be "Bakker Bargains" that is they weren't bargains at any price. A crab apple, bought to pollenate a dual-variety apple tree, never even flowered let alone pollenated. And a plastic weather cock, which I said wouldn't last six months here. I was wrong it, broke after 8 months. Letters of complaint went un-answered.

creeper

Joined: 06 Feb 2006
Posts: 83
Location: Vale of Belvoir - Leicestershire

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 07 10:24 am Post subject:

I've not bought electrical stuff from Aldi/Lidl but if they had something I needed I would certainly give them a go.
I've bought about 25 fruit trees for my orchard from both these shops and they are doing OK, I have also bought much more expensive trees from other places and they have not done as well.
As my orchard covers over an acre I have lots of room to try out different trees so cheap as possible works for me.
I've got some of Aldi's soft fruit to replace the poor "specialist" nursery raspberries I planted last year as I cann't afford to pay top ï¿½ï¿½'s again in case it's my soil/conditions at fault.
For me it comes down to ï¿½ï¿½'s at the end of the day, I would love to be able to buy 3 year trees at ï¿½60 a go but I have other things to spend money on: baby, house, rest of the smallholding and a wife on maternity leave.
Creeper

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45706
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 07 2:57 pm Post subject:
The fruit trees on sale in places like Aldi, Wilko etc will be raised in European nurseries (Dutch most likely) where they're much more efficient than here. This is why they're cheaper. Of course a lot of UK nurseries buy from exactly the same growers but just mark up hugely....

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 07 3:10 pm Post subject:
Is horticulture still subsidised in Holland?

OP

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 4661
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 07 3:24 pm Post subject:

I believe the reason these trees come on the market at amazing prices is because we are at the end of the commercial planting season. The dutch nurseries who supply large-scale european orchards will typically have stocks of various varieties left unsold because their bulk customers switched to a different variety etc etc. These trees cannot be kept and are therefore sold off. As Tahir says, it is mostly down to economies of scale. There is no reason why they shouldn't be top quality trees, they are simply un-wanted. The only drawback is that you may not know what rootstock they are using.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 07 3:37 pm Post subject:
That makes sense.

mrs p

Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Posts: 34

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 07 3:39 pm Post subject:
can i just say i WAS only speaking as i have found about the things i and/or friends have bought my sister has bought their skiing stuff and says its middlish but good for the price and i have always found them good about returns

Pea

Joined: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 960
Location: Rugby

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 07 9:17 pm Post subject:

Marionb wrote:

So what do you reckon on this cheap stuff from Aldi... is it worth buying then?? I tend to believe that you get what you pay for (and cost its cheap it cant be much good) but apparently a few people have bought electrical stuff and say that its as good as dearer stuff??

Hubby was thinking of getting a couple of electrical gadgets from there .... compressor about ï¿½50 I think for one.....

Marion I brought very expensive raspberry canes 36 in total from a very well know supplier and not a single one grew, they did everntually replace all 36 but it just put me off buying expensive items. I brough cheap fruit trees from Morrisons 4 years ago and they are doing extremely well(apart from the goats managing to get into the veggie patch). Also the fruit bushes from Wilko have fruited so well that I have to freeze the blackcurrents as I cannot make jam fast enough. Just goes to show that even the guys with a very good reputation sometimes get it wrong. My way of thinking now is that you have to try to find out.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 07 10:02 pm Post subject:

Pea wrote:

My way of thinking now is that you have to try to find out.

And its hardly likely you'll make an expensive mistake!

Old-Chads-Orchard

Joined: 07 Dec 2005
Posts: 394
Location: Malpas, Cheshire

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 07 10:42 pm Post subject:
oh thanks for this, need a small compressor, off to aldi tomorrow

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 07 10:48 pm Post subject:

offroading.net wrote:

oh thanks for this, need a small compressor, off to aldi tomorrow

Not Tuesday - you are supposed to wait until it is available on Thursday...

https://www.aldi.co.uk/

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