Aldi is selling a spring gardening essential that will protect your plants – it's half the price of the B&Q version
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ALDI is selling a gadget crucial for protecting your plants this spring, and it's half the price of the B&Q version.
With temperatures set to soar again next week, and another bank holiday on the horizon, many of us are likely planning on spending more time getting jobs done in the garden.
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Aldi has the perfect tool to help you tackle spring gardening jobs
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The £19.99 flower bed is a portable plastic greenhouse, perfect for displaying plants on balconies, patios or small gardens
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The B&Q product is more than double the price
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Spring is a great time to sow an abundance of plants such as sunflowers, sweet peas and hardy annuals, to ensure that your garden is in full bloom for the summer.
And Aldi's 50L Raised Bed, is the perfect tool to get you started.
The £19.99 flower bed is a portable plastic greenhouse, perfect for displaying plants on balconies, patios or small gardens.
Its semi-transparent lid turns the raised bed into a greenhouse, providing plants with more heat, to help them flourish.
The product is super easy to assemble, and can easily be transported around the garden, to suit your needs.
And it's even made from weatherproof materials, so you don't have to worry about it getting battered by the rain.
The product is available as part of Aldi's Specialbuys, and can be found in the middle aisle of the supermarket now.
However, as with all Specialbuys, once they're gone, they're gone, so garden lovers should head over the budget supermarket now to avoid disappointment.
In comparison, B&Qs Garden Store Direct Raised Bed is priced at £44.99, making it more than double the price.
The B&Q product also acts as a mini greenhouse and is made with weather resistant materials, however, unlike the Aldi buy, the more expensive bed includes a self watering system, and water level indicator.
Aldi is selling a greenhouse that's the 'best $39.99 ever spent' and perfect for getting your garden ready
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Shoppers will be delighted to hear that Aldi is bringing back its sell out garden range this weekend.
From Sunday, April 27, customers will be able to get their hands on the Rattan Effect Corner Sofa, priced at £199.99.
The bargain buy is easy to assemble, comes with seat and back cushions, and is built with a powder-coated steel frame and UV-protected rattan effect weaving for long-lasting comfort.
What's more, it is hundreds of pounds cheaper than similar products from B&Q and The Range, which cost up to £500.
Top 5 Spring Gardening Jobs
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Nick Grey, Gtech Inventor and CEO shared the tasks to crack on with as Spring arrives.
1. Clean your garden
Make sure to clear away all leaves, soil and plant debris from your patios and flower beds; this creates a healthier environment for new growth, especially as we get into the summer months. Gtech's Garden Safety Kit includes durable gardening gloves and safety glasses; perfect for comfortability whilst tackling those outdoor tasks.
2. Weeding
Early Spring is the best time to tackle weeds; if you can introduce some regular weeding into your routine, you can guarantee a tidy garden all year round.
3. Hedge maintenance
Spring is the ideal time to tidy up overgrown hedges and shrubs, as regular trimming ensures healthy growth and reduces pest issues. Using a tool like the Gtech Lightweight Hedge Trimmer can help to keep your greenery looking sharp and neat.
4. Composting
Starting a compost heap this spring is a pro-active, cost-effective way to harness nutritious soil for your plants and recycle organic waste that will benefit the overall health of your greenery and foliage.
5. Look after your lawn
Lawn care is hugely important in assuring your garden stays looking beautiful. Make sure to rake away any excess leaves and trim your grass routinely.
For anyone planning on hosting guests this early May bank holiday, the Rattan Garden Bar is the perfect purchase to impress friends and neighbours.
It's priced at £79.99 and includes a tempered glass top, a stainless-steel ice bucket, bottle storage and two wine racks.
And no spring bank holiday get together would be complete without a BBQ, making the 4-Burner Gas BBQ a must have buy.
Meanwhile, the Balcony Coffee Setting, priced at £99 is perfect for soaking up the sun in smaller spaces.
It is important to remember to always shop around when buying something like this as you might find a cheaper alternative.
Websites like Trolley and Price Spy let you compare thousands of products across different retailers to find the best price.
Price Spy even lets you see how much an item has cost over time, so you can see if the current price is a good deal.
A quick scan on the Google Shopping/Product tab will also bring up how much retailers are selling a certain item for too.
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Unoaked and with delicious light, leafy, floral, aniseed-spiked fruit, it's an easy-drinking summer crowd-pleaser. 11.5 per cent, Marks & Spencer, £8Hand-picked corvina and rondinella grapes, with a dab of molinara, grown on hilly slopes overlooking Lake Garda, make for an arresting rosé. Chiaretto pinks have that hint of bitterness so beloved by the Italians, but Fioritura's zesty, herby palate leads onto a sweet candied peel finish. 13 per cent, Waitrose, £8, down from £10 until Jul 1I've had my eye on this limestone soil-enriched Languedoc for a while now, a wine made from 40-year-old vines and given a blast of toasty French oak. What you get is a gorgeous, creamy, nutty, sweetly spiced mouthful that's a whizz with curried chicken or a spicy salmon dish. 12.5 per cent, Marks & Spencer, £8.50Punching well above its weight, the Dao and Lafoes region's encruzado grape makes a welcome new addition to summer swigging. Made from 30-year-old vines grown on granite soil, this fuller-bodied, unoaked, barbecue-loving white delivers a blast of steely citrus zest. 14 per cent, Co-op, £8.65Trust the Co-op's canny buyers to sniff out this classy yet temptingly cheap claret from Hubert de Boüard's pedigree stable. Merlot-led but with a good dollop of cabernet sauvignon and a dash of malbec, aged for a year in French oak, it's a ripe, zesty, herbaceous claret that will woo one and all. 11.5 per cent, £8.75Ring the changes this summer with this modish, predominantly grüner veltliner Austrian field blend, topped up with a dollop of müller-thurgau and a dash of muskateller, all fermented together. The result is a stunning summery sip with masses of vibrant, racy, green apple zing. 14 per cent, £8.95My kind of a big food-friendly rosado, made exclusively from the garnacha grape. It's a bright, bubblegum-hued pink with terrific, zesty, juicy cranberry and seductively scented pomegranate fruit, plus a decent whack of alcohol. Great with spicy chicken dishes. 11.5 per cent, Tesco, £9A classic Western Australia wine style, where bosky sauvignon is plumped up with buttery semillon creating a tastebud-tingling yet complex summer sip. With lots of fresh, zingy lemongrass and rich lemon curd flavours, a creamy fish pie or seafood dish would love this. 13 per cent, Morrisons, £9, down from £12 until Jul 15The awesome Cave de Lugny co-op makes almost every own-label white mâcon-villages on sale in the UK and this is the best by far of the sub-£10 summer bunch. Greeny-white and crammed with tasty yellow plum and golden delicious apple fruit, it's a must-buy. 12.5 per cent, Morrisons, £9, down from £13 until Jul 15Morrisons' new limited edition, supposedly superior the Best Block series is a bit hit and miss. There are some humdingers, though, including this vibrant, crunchy red-fruited and cassis-scented zweigelt from the Austrian wine wizard Markus Huber. 13 per cent, Asda, £9.14, down from £10.47 until Jul 30Fashionable albariño from Galicia in northwest Spain, buffeted by Atlantic breezes, really is the one-size-fits-all dry white wine. Rias Baixas is the prime spot and good ones like this 2024 have tangy acidity, steely backbone and heaps of delicious musky, apricot flavour. 12 per cent, £9.25The Wine Society's canny buyers have finetuned this white rioja field blend of viura, garnacha blanca and malvasia with all manner of different aged oaks, care of French and eastern European barrels. It's a straw gold, nutty, fresh-fruited and vanilla pod-scented gem, bravo! 12 per cent, Co-op, £9.65Orange Groove is new to the Co-op and it's a cracking blend of viognier, chardonnay, muscat, gewürztraminer and petit manseng. Bursting with fruit, earl grey tannins and nutty, citrus-peel pizzazz, it's a cracking bottle to serve with spiced chicken dishes. 14 per cent, £9.75If it's white wine only and your summer is all about burnt barbecued bangers and burgers this is what you need in your glass. From Undurraga's own vineyards in the Maule region, this big hearted, viognier-led blend is all restrained yet racy orange blossom fruit. 14 per cent, Morrisons, £10, down from £20Usually, a good Oregon pinot noir would set you back the best part of £30, so this vibrant, herby, fruity, cranberry 2023 is a cut-price bargain. From the renowned Dundee Hills district, the dab of syrah here gives this easy-to-quaff pinot noir a seductive, spice-infused lift. 14.5 per cent, Tesco, £10, down from £12 until Jul 14Not so long ago Ribera del Duero reds were big, ugly, earthy bruisers, with few costly exceptions, that were best avoided. Not any more. Tesco's American oak barrel-aged '23 from Bodegas Portia is a gloriously punchy, perfumed, velvety, black-fruited gem. 13 per cent, Waitrose, £10Orange wines are fermented with their skins and pips just like red wines, hence their amber-orange hue. Just to confuse us all further, Jean-Claude Mas's Rosorange is half rosé and half orange, hence its paler colour and less full-on but still fragrant tea leaf and orange peel spice. 13.5 per cent, Majestic, 6 for £10 each (single bottle £13)A giant step up from Errazuriz's entry-level pinot noir, knock it out of the park with this organic, single vineyard Aconcagua Valley '23. Hand harvested and fermented on its own natural yeasts followed by ageing for a year in French oak barrels, it's all elegant, floral, tangy, red plum fruit. 14.5 per cent, Tesco, £10.50, down from £12.50 from Jul 15-Aug 11Good zinfandel like this Lodi gem, grown on rocky soil, pepped up with petite syrah and teroldego, then given a short stint in French and American oak, is absolutely delicious. I loved its vibrant, spicy, rose-petal pizzazz, and so will you. 13 per cent, Co-op, £10.75 down from £11.90 until Jul 15As good as New Zealand sauvignon gets from the sea breezy Awatere Valley. Vavasour overflows with stylish nettle, gooseberry and green pepper ping that makes it the perfect white wine for oysters, or fresh crab and seafood salads. 12.5 per cent, Asda, £11.13All change at Asda as its better bottles are being rebranded as Exceptional, instead of Extra Special. This unoaked, buttery, nutty white burgundy hits the spot with its complex, creamy fruit matured for three months on its lees, hence the extra richness. 12 per cent, £11.50 South Australia's Clare Valley is one of the world's great classic riesling sites and this elegant, mineral, bone-dry 2024 is the bee's knees. Overflowing with racy white flowers, lime zest and green apple crunch, a glass of this green-flecked riesling will put a smile on your face. 13 per cent, Majestic, 6 for £11.50 each (single bottle £12.50)Georgia's Kakheti region produces some of the country's finest saperavi grape reds and this is one. Combining ancient and modern winemaking, fermenting in clay qvevri and ageing on oak chips makes for a strikingly unusual, bold, bosky, spiced forest fruit mouthful. 13.5 per cent, £11.50Château de Pitray's class act, keenly priced, oaky, merlot-led clarets have popped up here before and this fuller-bodied, new oak barrel-aged '21 is a surprisingly tasty edition from a tricky vintage. With elegant, savoury, cedary, gamey style, traditional claret drinkers will adore this. 13.5 per cent, Majestic, 6 for £11.50 each (single bottle £13)Diemersdal is that rare Western Cape estate with a wide range of awesome varietal wines and was the first to plant grüner veltliner there in 2010. Using an Austrian yeast strain and no oak makes for an absolutely delicious, fruity, white pepper mouthful. Fish curry anyone? 12.5 per cent, £11.80Bruno Lafon certainly knows what's what and his shift to the south 30 years ago is Burgundy's loss and Languedoc's gain. Tuck into this jolly, juicy, bright, red berry-fruited, grenache-led unoaked red chilled on a sunny day and you'll have a big smile on your face. 12 per cent, £11.80 The Burgundian Bruno Lafon's forbidden fruit (Le Fruit Défendu) Languedoc wines romped home in this tasting, proving yet again that specialist wine merchants know what's what. With all of the piquepoul grape's bright acidity and thrilling lime juice and lemongrass style, it's a class act. 15 per cent, £11.95The Vignerons Ardéchois co-op, with 2,000 grape growers, makes some lovely wines and this grenache-syrah combo gets my vote. It bursts with so much gloriously fat, juicy, damson plum and black cherry fruit, you won't notice the high alcohol. 14 per cent, £11.95Take it from me, Domaine Gayda and the Minervois limestone plateau has made a syrah that knocks the Rhône for six. Made partly like beaujolais, via carbonic maceration, it has dribble-down-your-chin squishy bramble fruit, plus seductive cracked black pepper spice. 13.5 per cent, Majestic, 6 for £12 each (single bottle £13)Give malbec a miss and nab this high-altitude French oak barrel-aged gem instead from Argentina's northerly wine region, Salta, famous for its distinctive, intensely fruited and powerful reds. Overflowing with rich, chewy, savoury, cassis fruit, it makes a great barbecue bottle. 11.5 per cent, Tesco, £12 down from £15 until Jul 14Enjoy this bright, bouncy, black grape-dominant, quince-tangy bubbly made from the samemethod as champagne but for a fraction of the price. It's another brilliant sip fromBurgundy's Cave de Lugny co-op, with pinot noir boosted by the chardonnay and gamay. 12 per cent, Majestic, 6 for £12 each (single bottle £15) Who knew that Rioja made such a great methode champenoise sparkler? Hand-harvested grenache, given two years on its yeasty lees, has produced an unusual biscuity, quince and apricot-licked sparkling rioja with fine bubbles and less residual sugar than most champagne. 11 per cent, Tesco, £12.50 A keen price for a sparky, English summer garden aperitif white from the Balfour Winery's Hush Heath estate in Kent. It's an elegant, herbaceous, hedgerow-scented sip, a canny blend of mostly pinot blanc and chardonnay, with a dollop of bacchus and dab of pinot noir. 13 per cent, Co-op, £14My kind of a superior beaujolais from one of the lighter crus, or villages, whose pretty name does not always deliver. However, 2023 was a fine beaujolais vintage and this vibrant yet velvety, violet and raspberry-stashed fleurie with a juicy black plum finish is a star. 12.5 per cent, Sainsbury's, £14.50, down from £16.50 until Jul 22 Make this the summer you chill out with a cool glass of mouth-watering red sancerre made from the pinot noir grape. This tastebud-tingling raspberry and red plum-packed '22, with a herbaceous hint on the finish, is just the ticket with charcuterie. 12.5 per cent, £14.95 A joint Provençal venture set up in 1989 by two of Burgundy's finest producers, Dujac and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, produces a marvellous Méditerranée rosé. Mostly cinsaut, with grenache, syrah and merlot, it's a wonderfully refreshing, pink grapefruit and pomegranate gem. 14.5 per cent, Aldi, £14.99Cheap red châteauneuf is often vile, leathery, chicken run-scented stuff, but not this one. Brimming with rich, savoury, sandalwood and cinnamon spice, it's a brilliant blend of grenache, topped up with a dash each of syrah and cinsault, plus a dab of counoise and mourvèdre. Yum! 12 per cent, Waitrose, £15A brilliant champagne method bubbly from the awesome Turckheim co-op, made from hand harvested pinot blanc and pinot gris grapes. What you get is masses of glorious, light, leafy, seductive, apple blossom and yellow apple fruit.
