Grow-your-own carrots withdrawn over price fears

Published: 7:30AM GMT 02 March 2010

The retrogression has led to thousands of households starting to grow their own vegetables in sequence to save income and cut food miles.

But investigations by Which? Gardening found that starter packs for beginner gardeners are in actuality some-more costly than shopping the food at the supermarket.

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One company, Gardening Direct, sole carrot block plants for �1.09 each, that constructed one carrot each, notwithstanding the actuality it would cost only over 10p to grow the carrots from seed.

The same association sole beetroot starter packs at the same price, producing one plant each, even though 4 uninformed beetroot can be paid for in the supermarket for underneath �1.

Ceri Thomas, editor of Which? Gardening, pronounced beginner gardeners are being ripped off.

"One bruise and 9 pence for a carrot is unequivocally not worth for money! Carrot seed is unequivocally bad to buy and really easy to grow even for beginner gardeners," she said.

Gardening Direct have right away cold the Autumn King carrot plugs and the beetroot plugs.

Mark Sherwood, selling manager, pronounced prices are all the time being reviewed.

"Whilst we hold that the reward peculiarity block plants routinely paint superb worth for money, we do not instruct to trick gardeners in any approach nor be viewed as being bad worth for money," he said.

Guy Barter, Head of Gardening Advice at the Royal Horticultural Society, pronounced beginner gardeners are mostly as well frightened to grow vegetables from seed.

He pronounced block plants are a great choice but they should be labelled fairly.