{"id":5051,"date":"2013-06-24T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2013-06-22T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T18:52:18","slug":"2013-garden-participation-up-total-spending-still-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2013\/06\/24\/2013-garden-participation-up-total-spending-still-down\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Garden Participation Up, Total Spending Still Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5052\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gardencenter-chemical-aisle.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5052\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gardencenter-chemical-aisle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gardencenter chemical aisle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gardencenter-chemical-aisle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gardencenter-chemical-aisle-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gardencenter-chemical-aisle.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden Center Shopping Aisle<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe National Gardening Association recently released their 2013 National Gardening Survey. Household participation in gardening rose 2% since 2011\u2014 now totaling approximately 85 million households.<\/p>\n<p>Popularity in food\/edible gardening continued to rise for the sixth straight year in a row, soaring past flower gardening in terms of dollars spent. The increase in male gardeners from the 18- to 34-year old accounted for the largest spending boost.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. households continue to spend more at Home Improvement Centers (27% of the total gardening retail market) and at Mass Merchants (20%) than they do at local Garden Centers and Nurseries (17%) or local Hardware Stores (15%).<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row that lawn and garden sales rose, after being down the previous two years. The average annual spending per household was down $4 to $347. Time and lifestyle, not the weather, seem to be more important factors determining how people spend their dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Total sales of green goods are still languishing. In the battle for consumer entertainment time and dollars, the lawn and garden industry is competing against movies-on-demand, video games, watching sports, and electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Source: National Gardening Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Gardening Association recently released their 2013 National Gardening Survey. Household participation in gardening rose 2% since 2011\u2014 now totaling approximately 85 million households. Popularity in food\/edible gardening continued to rise for the sixth straight year in a row, soaring past flower gardening in terms of dollars spent. The increase in male gardeners from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1025,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}