Victorians have reached for their spades and revived their vegetable gardens to beat the price shocks that have sent the cost of iceberg lettuce soaring to about $10 a head
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She said Beasley’s had been selling out quickly, and at 3pm on Sunday, the centre had just five lettuce seedlings of the iceberg variety left. Bunnings general manager, merchandise, Adrian Pearce said: “We did see a significant increase in customers’ interest in gardening and growing their own produce throughout the lockdown periods, and we have noticed a further recent uplift with common seedlings, with lettuce increasingly popular.”
He said the waiting list for the site, which has 150 plots, had gone from zero to nearly 40 people since the start of the pandemic.
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