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Posted on Monday Mar 1 8:23:00 GMT 2010
I have given the website a bit of a facelift tonight and a new lick of paint for the Spring what do you think?

The changes were after feedback left suggested that the all cabbage wallpaper in the background made your eyes go funny when scrolling down so I have changed to veg with a white background and some people said my page list wasn't very visible so I have changed my colours to Mint Chocolate
Posted on Monday Mar 1 7:56:00 GMT 2010
SOME PEOPLE ARE AGAIN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH ORDERS GETTING THROUGH CHECKOUT IF YOU FIND YOU HAVE TROUBLE PAYING PLEASE CONTACT US STRAIGHT AWAY SO WE CAN HELP YOU EITHER BY SENDING YOU AN INVOICE VIA NOCHEX OR PAYPAL TO PAY OR BY TAKING YOUR PAYMENT OVER THE PHONE. WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR WEB TEAM TO TRY AND GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ISSUE AND APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE
Posted on Friday Feb 19 7:00:00 GMT 2010
Anyone who is still awaiting orders that are due to go out this month we have delayed until March due to the continuing cold snowy weather. I have tried to e-mail those concerned but have had no replies.

It is my belief and advice that anything planted now will simply perish in the cold and wet or frozen ground it is therefore better the plants stay with us in our polytunnels, we put the customer first and do not want you to loose your plants.

There are a lot of packs due out in March we have sown stuff for these but there is going to be a delay to them being ready because of the cold and light levels, also this weather is set to continue well into March so at the moment it is unlikely we will send your all year round packs out until Mid-Late March when hopefully things will begin to be a bit more spring like

If you have any questions regarding this please don't hesitate to contact me
Posted on Friday Jan 8 10:51:00 GMT 2010
After looking at what, our competitors were charging for Postage and Packing, and after reviewing our survey results I have reduced our general postage to £5 from £6.99 and have now put the postage into bands as well with free postage on all the All year round packs and orders over £100 before P&P.  

I have also reviewed some of our prices, but a lot of prices have not changed by much and some not at all, some have actually gone down slightly some have gone up slightly.  

On a number of the packs I have changed the price this is not to increase profit or anything at all like that it is purely that when I reviewed what was actually being sent out in them and what I would like to send out in them this year they were priced all wrong for what was in them? And this therefore needed to be addressed.  

The packs are now priced according to what is in them with a good discount compared to buying the items individually and reflecting the fact that all single plant items this year are being grown in pots which obviously incurs extra cost.

All in all I think we offer something different in the fact we have such a large choice and still remain competitive in what is? An increasingly challenging market and a fast growing one. 

And remember being a small family business means we can have the flexibility In what we can offer you the customer, that many of the bigger companies cannot offer.
Posted on Friday Jan 8 10:17:00 GMT 2010
Well as those of you know from my previous newsletters I had planned to start sowing the Aubergines In December and the Peppers this month. But I left doing the Aubergines in December because of the cold weather now I am rather glad I didn't sow them as with temperatures being down to -12 at night even down here in Cornwall I would be struggling to keep them alive as they would need some serious heating and that would be the next problem the nursery is not at home and I can't get out so I wouldn't be able to get a refill gas bottle if it ran out or turn it on or off to conserve gas.

At the moment we are totally snowed in OK we have not had as much snow as some only about three-four inches, but to get to the road we have a half mile long drive down from Tamar lake which has a huge dip in it which I would be unlikely to get up the other side of even if I had by some miracle managed to reach the road there is a much worse problem there it has not been snow ploughed or gritted and has a steep hill in both directions which my car spins up when it is just frosty let alone with two inches of frozen snow on it.

We were just about out of Milk, Bread, Eggs, Butter, Nappies, And electric yesterday and was just about to send out an SOS to our landlords to see if anyone could get a 4x4 in to us to help, when one of the wardens came up in his 4x4 to check all the water pipes on site in the cafe, etc.

And he very kindly offered to run me and a lady on a neighbouring farm in to town so £177 later we are now stocked up with food and electric, and ready for the next snowfall on Sunday which will ensure it will be at least the middle of next week before we can get out.
Posted on Tuesday Dec 29 7:33:00 GMT 2009
Well 2009 is nearly over and it was a challenging year for us to say the least we had a further increase in customers and upset a few due to the horrible things that happened with the nursery and having to find a new one in peak season meaning our crops suffered and so did our customers.

Thankfully that is all behind us now and we look forward to a brighter 2010 in which we will invest in a seed sower to enable us to be more efficient with our sowing and keep ahead with our plugs so we never run out and always have stock available. We have increased our number of varieties again and the seed sower will mean this will not cause us any problems especially with the nursery now only being a mile and a half a away I can sow in the afternoons/evenings easier after we have done the picking and packing of orders or Sarah can sow whilst I am picking

seeder

This is the seeder I will be buying.

All the single sown items we sell, Tomatoes, Aubergines, Peppers, Courgettes, Melons, Cucumbers, etc will be done earlier in 9/10cm pots to give much better plants.

Our new book keeper is also going to my admin through the summer so I have a better idea of what has been sold, how much stock we have etc and answer e-mails and the like, she will also keep you all updated on order progress via our Twitter page and this blog

Our Twitter page is http://twitter.com/VegetablePlants

This is your last chance to get next years orders at discount prices we currently have 25% off until New Years Day and then that's it our discounts will cease.

We look forward to seeing all our customers old and new and serving you to the best of our ability but please remember we are only human and we cannot be perfect all the time.

Happy growing

Keith and Sarah
Posted on Saturday Nov 21 0:00:00 GMT 2009
Ooohhh were getting more famous our plants were on the telly yesterday we had a phone call from the researchers at This Morning a few weeks ago after their Gardener Sven Wombwell asked for our plants for a piece he was doing on veg and it was aired yesterday if you missed it click on the link below

http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/homeandgarden/garden/gardenclippingswinterveggarden/

And were going to be heavily mentioned in an article on Broccoli Santee in the January issue of Gardens Monthly as well as Amazon contacting us to be a third party seller on Amazon !!

Things are looking up  :)
Posted on Tuesday Nov 17 0:00:00 GMT 2009

PLEASE NOTE

Please Note we are currently experiencing a few technical issues with the website such as the basket emptying when you put more products in it and orders not completing the checkout process so the order does not come through to us please check you have had an order confirmation from us if you have not then we have not received your order. there may also still be small problems with the customer accounts system.

Our websites hosts are trying to rectify these issues as soon as possible but they believe it may be a glitch with internet explorer 8 and it may mean waiting for a patch from them.

IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH ORDERING PLEASE RING US OR E-MAIL US

ON 01288 321175 OR BY E-MAIL keithwheeler364@googlemail.com

please be mindful of the fact that the phone number is also our home phone number so please ring between

9am and 5pm


Posted on Wednesday Nov 11 0:00:00 GMT 2009
To All those of you that have filled in our survey from last weeks e-mail a huge thank you we have had a fantastic response with over 200 completed surveys which has given us really good feedback on some of the things we needed to know and will help hugely with future planning so once again thank you anyone still wanting to take part can by using this link.

http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2miovs2g1qxancq/start
Posted on Tuesday Nov 3 0:00:00 GMT 2009
Now the propagator and pot makers Sankey want us to supply them with plugs tomorrow for a photo shoot what a week

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