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OUTDOOR Retailers need to utilise all gardening equipment to give the whole concept of spending time in your garden lawnmowers, spades, seed, birding products, fertilisers, water features, grass seed and others Efekto: Cross merchandising traditional hardware items such as spades and wheelbarrows with fertiliser and plant food is a great way to grab those extra sales. Retailers can create a small area in-store where they can STARKE AYRES PRODUCT OVERVIEW Vegetable, Herb and Flower seeds Its seed packets are hermetically sealed and freshly packed for the season, and with its large variety of seed available, customers have a great selection to choose from. Kombat Ants (Reg No L6188 Act 36 of 1947) Kombat Ants is a suspension concentrate, contact and stomach insecticide for the control of a wide range of garden, household and wood destroying insects. Nutrifeed (Reg No K2025 Act 36 of 1947) Nutrifeed is a specially formulated, concentrated and balanced fertiliser, which, when used regularly, will promote healthy root, plant and flower development for a wide range of vegetables and ornamentals grown in hydroponic/soilless culture, as well as soil or other media. share ideas with customers about what can be done in the garden this month. May and sales in their gardening section by displaying gardeners and these displays also add value June are quieter times in the garden, why not gardening products in the prime positions of to the gardening section, as well as the store demonstrate the sharpening of spades, selling their stores. By building gardening displays itself. If the customers are aware that their Plant Guard fabric which controls weed growth? in their promo courts and using point of local hardware store stocks the full range of sale material, the hardware stores are not gardening products, this will definitely increase missing out on any opportunities to potential the number of feet into the store. HA Starke Ayres: Hardware stores can increase HARDWARE AFRICA 2014 99