I might like spending a lot of my time outside, but I’m also a technological gardener too. I love my apps, tweets and blogs. And the internet allows me to avoid doing things I really hate, like shopping. I look at this online shopping blog to give me some ideas about how I can avoid shopping in a town centre with grumpy people as often as possible, and it really does inspire me and help me get organised.

There’s also something great about the marketplace of the internet, where the same sort of noisy bartering takes place, but through exclusive voucher codes and sites where people sell their goods, whether old or handmade. I like that auction, haggling element to it as well as I do feel that I’m getting a real bargain. That’s the one thing I miss about going shopping in a town centre - and let’s be clear that my town centre isn’t packed with wholesome independently-owned shops but grumpy strip-lit chains where the staff don’t want to help you the quality isn’t better than anything you can buy online.

I’ve now started buying most of my gardening materials online, as well, partly because having a courier lug a load of plants and compost bags up to my door is so much better than me trying to do it myself and getting progressively grumpier and more exhausted before even doing the planting. And then I can also take advantage of online offers and the like - and change my mind at the last minute without having to wander all the way back through the garden centre to replace the plant.

Article in association with Voucherbin.

 

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