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I would like to say a massively big thank you too all our customers who have given us such massive support and words of encouragement in what has been an extremely challenging year.

It has been very heart warming to receive some of your lovely e-mails.

And to those that have not been so nice well we can't win them all.

Hello We are still very very busy with orders going out we are clearing the backlog but it will take time please note we are currently working 15 hours a day trying to get your orders away as quick as we can Unfortunately due to a long standing family commitment we will not be able to dispatch any orders the week commencing the 26th July and deliveries will re-commence the 3rd of August sorry for any further inconvenience this may cause but family comes first.

We are aiming to get as many away this week as we possibly can.

If you are placing an order please now place it for August onwards.

If you have an order pending we are doing all we can to get them out just as fast as we can we have had quite a few problems that caused earlier delays and we had about a 1000 orders to get out pretty much all at once which being a small family business is a massive task we are getting through them and getting as many orders a week out as we physically can please bare with us. We would prefer you e-mailed us rather the telephone as we have no office staff so being tied up with phone calls takes me away from getting what I need done to get orders out If you e-mail us I will reply just as soon as I can but it may take me a few days also I don't get back to my desk until late afternoon evening and my office is on the landing in the middle of the house so once the kids are home at 4 it is very difficult for me to listen to or answer phone calls.

Demand has been huge this year as the grown your own enthusiasm grows so this on top of the very late Spring has caused us some delays we are still sowing to keep up with demand and do have some very nice plants to get out you

It is not too late to plant out everything is a month behind anyway this year and plants will still catch up any plants we have potted on have doubled in size in a week.

We want you to have you plants so you can have tasty home grown Veg so we are doing all we can to ensure you get them as soon as possible.

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If you are currently due one of our packs (all year round packs, 50 plug packs, etc) Sarah is doing those at home whilst I continue picking orders down the nursery so we get more parcels out so they will be coming out to you shortly.

We have shipped a record 106 orders this week so we are making progress clearing them.

Please bare In mind we are only a small family company and although we have taken on 4 staff to help us this year they are all only part time we just do not have the resources to anything other than this we are getting through the orders as fast as we can and are picking and packing Sunday-Thursday even in hot polytunnels in the mid day sun (not a nice place to be) so do please bare with us we are doing all we can but we cannot possibly do everyone's at once and we will not tolerate people being abusive to us or our staff on the phone. The weather has played havoc with us this year and has meant all the orders needing to go out at once there is nothing we could have done to avoid this the weather just held everything back until this last week. Your plants will be fully hardened off and raring to go when you receive them.

If you are currently waiting on orders being delivered we are getting through them as fast as we can most plants are now ready to go it is just a case of clearing the orders now rest assured we are doing them as quick as we can we have taken on four staff this season to cope with orders we have two of us picking full time with one picking and potting and two packing and sowing plus one on admin so we are making significant headway so please be patient your orders will be with you shortly.

We have just negotiated to be the sole supplier of plants for a company called Earthbox they will be supplying our plants for their Earthbox kits in the right quantities for their planting plans.

We are also planting a number of boxes up for them for their stands at Chelsea, Tatton Park and Hampton Court flower shows.

This system is much more than just a planter

1. move the EarthBox outside during the day and inside at night - extending the growing season by planting earlier and harvesting later and..
2.  move the EarthBox around the patio or deck to increase or decrease the amount of time spent in the sun.

Plastic inhibits the growth of disease-causing mould, as well as the invasion of plant-eating pests.

http://www.earthbox.co.uk/engine/shop/index.html

Latest News

April sees 50% rise in sales at Vegetable Plants Direct.

April has been our best month ever since we started selling plants in 2005 with sales for April alone being 50% up on April 2009

We have done a huge amount of sowing with plenty of spare capacity on most plants and will be continually sowing throughout the summer. And you are not too late to order most things by rights are not supposed to go out until all risk of frost has passed in late May early June.

With a couple of days of warm nights and days we finally have some leaves coming out on the trees I don't think I remember such a late spring or such a dry April it has been a nightmare for us growing.

But after a huge sowing and pricking out effort from my new employees were catching up and have plenty of nice plants coming through now.

some of the Tomato seed we have been waiting on from America has arrived and been sown particularly the Super Sioux that has become the most popular tomato all of a sudden due to the Which article.

We have had delays to orders due to the lateness of plants but we anticipate keeping delays to a minimum with the extra staff to get the orders out.