Advice needed:selling plants at a car boot

tamworthgirl

Hello everyone,
I'm thinking about selling some perennial plants (grown from cuttings taken this year) at a local car boot sale next spring.
How much would you pay for a plant? I was thinking about selling them for £2.00 each or three for £5.00. Or is that too expensive or too cheap?!

Thanks

Plants im thinking about selling include:- Penstemons, Sedums,Lavender,Agapanthus and a few alpine plants. They will be sold in 9cm square pots.

misskool

It would depend on the plant and the size you'd got them to.

I would pay £2 if it was large enough to plant out.

emiff6

Take a look at the prices for similar sized plants in your local garden centre, and reduce the price of yours by between ten and thirty percent - also if you have time, see how much other folk are selling their plants for at car boots. You can always reduce the price as the day goes on, but you can't raise the price if you start out too low - think of the care and work and time you've put into raising the plants.

elsien

I've had plants from car boots before now, but I would expect to pay less than in a local nursery if you were doing it out of the back of a car, as there aren't the same overheads, and I do like to feel I've got a bargain - the whole point of car boots!

Anchorman_2

I'm a nurseryman and sell thousands of plants a year at the local plant auctions. £2 for a 9cm pot sounds too much to me. If they're a decent size plant I'd puit then in at least 1 litre or preferably 2 litre pots . Go down to your local garden centre and compare prices. Yours would need to be cheaper than them.

rosy798

I often sell my plants in your area and find that they only want to buy if they are very cheap. I can rarely get more than £1 for anything including quite big plants. Customers always compare to Lidl, Aldi etc and then want 'em cheaper than that.

Orange_King

It depends what you have growing. I have found that the customer prefers to see the plant in full bloom - I sell day lilys and arum lilys and fuschias for instance and having flowers is the big seller. I have sold these for £3 to £5 depending on size of pot.

I also take smaller cuttings and sell them for £1 and explain that they will eventually develop into the flowering version.

angelavdavis

I found it easy to sell plants at the boot sales in London - Although I didn't sell perennials - I mainly concentrated on excess vegetable and annual bedding plants plus seed taken from plants the previous year (I printed labels using my colour printer). It was about ten years ago, but I charged about 20p for seeds, 30p for small plug sized plants and 50p for larger plants.

I bought some black plastic bag pots to pot everything up in, then stapled the plant labels on. I would pot them into these pots from flower pots about three weeks before the boot sale so they had grown into their new pots in time.

I used to do it to cover the cost of my potting compost, etc so it wasn't a big business project, but actually made enough to pay for a greenhouse too one year!

forgotmyname

£1.50 for a tray of 9 vegetable plants, Runner beans, Sprouts, cabbage, Cauli etc..