Growing and Selling Plants

notenoughcash

Do you have a local hardware store that would sell some for you? Ours does this and they get snapped up straight away.

Also my mum is semi retired and runs a lunch time gardening club in a school and they grow and then sell their plants/veg in the playground at the end of school which is very popular.

School/church/community centre summer fetes would probably be a good place too.

If you are thinking ahead for next year it may be worth looking out for any of these events happening this year so you can get a contact in plenty of time to book a stall next year.

wigglebeena

lucylema wrote: »

how would i do plug plants??

I am thinking of selling the plants on ebay possibly but definitely asking the local shop if I could sell through them with a % to them of course and the internet at work oh and car boot sales etc.

I also have a grapevine in the garden and thinking of taking cuttings of that.

What sort of price would you pay? I am not ready to do anything this year as its a bit late now i think but in prepration for next year.

Plug plants - I don't know what the gardener's definition is, but I take plugs to be plants that are established enough to bung straight in the garden/pot - proper root system, flourishing, leaves formed, ready to go. But still small enough to transport/post a few easily, with/without soil round the roots, in quite small boxes that aren't going to bust the bank for postage.

I've had 'em sent in tiny cheap little pots (which is fine by me) or even twined together and stuck in a cereal box with the end cut off and a bit of compost in. I don't think most people make a lot of money on them and I don't expect anything fancy in packaging.

Actually it has occurred to me that egg boxes would be great - you could actually start the plants off in them, one per 'egg', then cut off the appropriate number of plants from the rest of the box. Very green!

Foam peanuts or shredded paper in the box over the plants will stop everything falling out in transit.