Tag Archives: plants

pots for tomato plants
  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 1
  • Posted: June 27, 2011
  • Category: House & Garden

Reader tip: free pots for your tomato plants

Short of big pots for your tomato plants? Here’s the perfect tip, from Miss Thrifty reader Sharon: Are you having to pay out for buckets for your tomato plants, or other veg etc..? Take a trip down to your local, … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 6
  • Posted: July 9, 2010
  • Category: House & Garden

How to fill your Morrisons trolley for £30

So what can you get with a £30 Morrisons voucher? The Sun newspaper’s social media agency got in touch to say that they would bestow a voucher for this very sum upon me, if I told y’all what I’d spend … Continue reading

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(Late) Friday Bargains: Flowers & More from Morrisons

I must apologise for the extremely late running of Friday Bargains. This is because I was out on the razzle when I should have been posting. It’s all come good though: I was moping around Morrisons at the weekend and… … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 17
  • Posted: August 11, 2008
  • Category: House & Garden

Bowing to Frugal Grandma

I was in sunny(ish) Essex this weekend, catching up with some of my nearest and dearest. I spent yesterday hanging out with my grandparents. Not for the first time, my grandma’s thrifty supremacy had me marvelling.  “Have some jam, dear”, she … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 0
  • Posted: July 29, 2008
  • Category: House & Garden

Shiny, shiny houseplants

  Do you have houseplants? Don’t bother buying those special leaf cleaning products, such as these £3.99 Leaf Shine Wipes from Betterware. Just pop all your plants into the bathtub or shower, and spray them from above. It washes dust … Continue reading

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Keep insects away with basil and lavender

Basil: Ants in the kitchen drove me mad last summer - until I discovered that basil is Ant Kryptonite. Buy a pot from the supermarket for £1.99 or thereabouts, put it in a bigger pot and

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