Nichol's Garden Centre manager Stuart Brown said the warm Dunedin weather meant the garden centre was busy throughout Labour Weekend.
''People are getting their gardens in - it's been full on,'' Mr Brown said.
The landscape yard was ''chock-a-block'' with people queueing in their vehicles for bark nuggets and topsoil, he said.
Gardner Kevin O'Docherty, of St Kilda, said he planned to plant some marigolds and some lettuce together yesterday. The marigolds deterred wireworm from feasting on the lettuce, he said.
''It seems to work.''
Rhonda Abercrombie, of Opoho, said she and her husband David had bought a neighbouring house and demolished it to develop the 450sq m property into a rose, herb and vegetable garden with an old English potting shed and court yard.
''We love gardening.''
Mr Abercrombie said gardening was a fun form of exercise.
It was impossible to put a finish date on the garden project, he said.
''A garden is never finished.''
