Curious?

i was just wondering what you guys who buy store veggy starts are paying for them, and what type of veggie and pot size, organic or not ect........
let me know.
theri is no rush

i know some of you buy plants so come on let me know the prices

suppose it really depends on the area, suppply demand ya know..

I buy seeds and start my own.......I do buy tomato plants that are FIRE from a local greenhouse I pay like 3 dollars for a tray of 6 about 5 inches tall

I just bought a bunch from my nursery . They cost 1.99 for a 6 pack with 1 node . 1.69 for a single with 3 nodes .Any vegetable they have available .

I am asking this cuz i am getting into making growing and selling plants is my job and just trying to find out some prices and what not, i under stand in different areas prices are a bit different but i figure they cant be to much different.

king of queen the prices you listed sound like our area prices, i look around all the places locally to base my prices off of those and i try to make them lower to attract business.
i have listed my prices for tomatoes at 1.50 for a single plant that is 3-5 nodes tall (hopefully) and in a 4 inch nursery pot. plus they all 100 percent organic,no pest or diseases

i think we usually pay about a dollar or so per plant for say tomatoes and peppers or what not that are a smaller sized, and say maybe two or so for a nicer sized plant that is ready to go..

I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and was paying $3.00 - 3.50 per plant for heirloom tomatoes and peppers. I'm starting everything from seed this yr, and have around 150 pepper plants growing in basement right now. I'll be starting tomatoes this week. Up here, I cant trust getting plants outdoors until the end of May - June 1st.

If this is market research for a business, then only you will be able to work out what to cost at. Go and visit the area that you foreseee your client base coming from, and then analyse what is eing sold for what there. Asking a random person from a random place to give you adivce on what your customer base will accept or not accepot, well the only way i can put it is bad business sense.

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If this is market research for a business, then only you will be able to work out what to cost at. Go and visit the area that you foreseee your client base coming from, and then analyse what is eing sold for what there. Asking a random person from a random place to give you adivce on what your customer base will accept or not accepot, well the only way i can put it is bad business sense.

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thank you for the input TTT.

but if you read post # 6 i had said i have already checked out all local places that sell plants and that is what i have already based my prices off of, i was just curious and wanted to know, it still helps me to hear prices from other places though.

i figure the more info i got on anything and every thing the better off i am.

I am trying to get a grant so i can go to college and take botany, agriculture, horticulture, and some other classes on plants and what not, then i am also going to take a business classes so i understand how start and run my own business.

Find yourself a good bookkeeper and running a business is easy as fook so long as you're willing to put the time in and you know what you want. A business plan is key. The main thing whihc people often do not take into account when starting up a new business is that unless there is huge financial backing for staff, you end up working more than you'd ever want to work again, 12 hour days being just standard. A good friend of mine opened up an AV company a few years back, a pretty easy gig you'd have thought, yet after a 12 hour day he then spends near 6 hours going over quotes, updating the website, checking stock and deliveries and that lot, he offered to pull me into the business but i figured fuck that

Sounds like you have an idea of what you want to do though so good luck I wuold personally focus more on the business side of college, botany can easily be read from home and the experience, unless going to a laboratory level of botany, can be had for near free in your garden while high as a motherfucking kite

thanks again man. i had an idea that this isnot going to be easy and have already committed my self, i love anything that has to do with plants, and if making a living means working hard them im all for it, it might not make me rich, but it will be something i like to do while making a decent pay. as for employees well im not even thinking of that just yet, that is still a few years away most likely, right now im working out of my house and my smaller green house.
also most my family would love to come work for me, they all have the same interests as me. I am gonna be getting alot of help from my aunt as well, she runs 3 vineyards of grapes that make great wine. (Bridge view winery) she also runs a huge nursery just in a different city, she grows all her crops and makes a very good profit off it.

you got a garden going this year TTT?

New house so new garden, this year is just gonna be spent getting the area sorted out, getting soil nice and fertile, getting a greenhoue built etc. Think this year i'm gonnamainly potatoess and get a herb garden sorted, then the main grunt come next year. It seem to be about 35m sq to work with. Unfortunately i can only actually get to it at weekends. Thinking about getting a plum tree and a couple of really good goosebury bushes, rapberries, strawberries, redcurrants, blueberries, rhubarb, then there will be the greenhouse and about 15sqm for veg plots including a 10m wall bed for runner beans and lettuce etc. Probably have small items like raddishes growing around the edges of the beds. Big plans but a big time frame to work on, gonna be a long while before it looks like anything

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New house so new garden, this year is just gonna be spent getting the area sorted out, getting soil nice and fertile, getting a greenhoue built etc. Think this year i'm gonna try and run a good number of potatoes and get a herb garden sorted, then the main grunt come next year. It seem to be about 35m sq to work with. Unfortunately i can only actually get to it at weekends.

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sounds like quite a bit os space to work with, i wish i had more space then i got but it works for now. im trying out potatoes this year for the first time, i am going to grow them in pots though cuz my raised beds are gonna be full of other stuff.
and hey man if you were close to southern oregon i would come out and help with some of the work, i love anything that has to do with gardening and landscaping even if it is hard work. i find a piece of mind when i am doing it, like i forget about every thing that troubles me.

you should drop by my veggie journal some time and check it out, i let some other people kinda use it as theri journal as well but its all cool.
if that makes sense

i should be able to report some prices in a few weeks when they actually start selling them. my local home depot is still shovelling out their garden center lol and the nurseries won't open for weeks. i can tell you that i paid 4.99 for a bag of red onion sets and 7.99 for for for the potato things (i forget what they're called). most everything else i start from seed indoors. right now i have 6 heirloom brandywine tomato sprouts from a 3 dollar seed pack, and about 7 bell pepper sprouts from a 2 dollar seed pack. i do know that last year i paid 5 bucks for a foot tall green bell pepper plant from a discount garden store. usually though if i were to buy started plants i do the 6 pack thing and i can't for the life of me remember what i usually pay. i'll get back to you though.