A good year for the garden

The product group of decorative garden finishes experienced growth of 7.7 per cent in the United Kingdom from January to July 2010 on the same period last year. The majority of other product groups also made good progress, according to information from the GfK, a market research organisation. For example, volume sales of grow bags increased by 19 per cent, and of tomato fertilizers by 13.5 per cent. Moreover, the market researchers point to the fact that 14 per cent of the sales attributable to the core product groups of growing media, fertilizers, garden chemicals, lawn seed and soil conditioners, valued at £ 48 mio, were made during the period from September to December.