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Steve, I don't know if ya'll have Dollar Trees over there, it is a popular chain store over here. They sell "cheap" stuff...at one time everything in them was...a dollar. Eventually that added a few items that were like $2-$5, but 95% of items were $1. Then this inflationary economy marched in and $1.00 raised to $1.25...but it's still called "Dollar Tree".
They have a *very* small garden section...mostly made up of small pots. Every time I go into one (with my wife, of course!
) I visit the garden section and the food storage section.
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Hi I.T.S.
Yes indeedy, we do have an equivalent shop, over here it's called Poundland. When they first opened everything was a pound, but now it goes a lot higher than that.
Like you I drift over to the generally pretty poorly stocked gardening area, and look at the pots, twine, incredibly badly made tools from China and the other parafinalia (generally tat) that they sell, but they only normally do standard round pots that are too shallow or troughs that snap if you lift them when full of media.
The food storage containers are poor Tupperware copies and they too don't last long enough to be useful.
In the gardening supplies area, I have concluded that you will have to pay more for quality kit, pay more, and buy once as they say.
Cheers
Steve