All the details to have your first plant yard sale. You can easily make $500, $1000, and even $1500 by selling plants, herbs, and flowers. I cover all the basics to put your first plant sale together.
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Episode 1: Make $500 Selling Garden Vegetable Plants at a Yard Sale: Starting 7 Great Herbs Indoors – Part 1of4: https://youtu.be/7hegp3hqTms
Episode 2: How I Made $1000 Selling Vegetable Plants: Best Plants, When to Plant, Where & When to Sell & More – Part 2 of 4: https://youtu.be/ZxeV_TbY6wU
Episode 3: Make $1000 by Having A Garden Plant Yard Sale E-3: Potting Up, Seed Starting & Almost Ready to Sell! – Part 3 of 4 https://youtu.be/CEBiJnuuskc
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Great video! I plan on having my first plant sale this spring!
I'm so ready to go Gung ho on gardening this Spring. I'm having a hard time holding back.
Thanks for the information, I will definitely try that this year. 👍
Thanks for the tips! We’re doing our first sale this year, and I’ve been incredibly anxious about it.
Nice! I've just recently finished re-watching your previous seedling sale videos. I've sold a handful of extra plants the last couple years, but this year with wanting to add some cattle panel arches to the garden I'm hoping to sell enough to offset the cost of the panels and t-posts. I also found a local gardening group and having some extra seedlings means I'll have some to swap – which isn't selling but definitely could save money by allowing me to try out new varieties without buying seeds. In my neck of the woods the squash vine borer has wiped out what they will by the end of July and I started a flat of extra squash in June just to prepare, it was nice to have extras I was able to offer them free locally to a few people who had lost all their summer squash.
Great Topic. I plan on doing this next year. This year, I am working on the infrastructure. The polytunnel greenhouse is just about ready to cover. I am, weather provided, working on making three raised beds to go inside it. My plan is to plant tomatoes, lettuce, and Red Bearded Bunching onions inside it. I will also be moving my planting table inside. It can easily hold 6 10×20 trays. I'll probably set up a second table outside temporarily. This will give me the space I need for my seed starts, and the plants I want to put up for sale. In a few weeks when I get caught up, I'll have to sit down to see how many of what plants I want to sell, purchase more trays, and however many more starting cells I need I have plenty of singles, and maybe enough four cell. I will definitely need more six cell pots, and of course seeds. I can collect some from my garden, but not all of them.
How much do you think I should price the ultra-hot pepper plants? They took forrevverr to germinate. They are in 16 oz styrofoam cup.
Last year, I made around $600 over the course of several plant sales and vendor events, which I do all year, just change what I offer, depending on the season. This year, I'm offering seeds along with plants. Fyi, I don't see a live scheduled for the 20th, I see one for the 19th
Is the average $2-3 / unit something you would also recommended for other crops like alpine strawberries or flowers?
I so want to do this. Although yes, it would be great if it helped offset some of my costs – but more, it would be great to offer varieties that one just can't get here normally. There is almost no variety in my area. AND – having transplants available once the main big box stores or nurseries stop stocking. The latter is why I started seed starting. A few years back, a crazy hail storm wiped out my entire garden. It was the first/second week of May, around Mother's day. But I could barely find anything to replant. Never again.
Yessss ! Awesome 💡 👍
Thank you!
Great idea I could do that and fresh eggs also
I had a light bulb moment towards the end of the video… sell an assortment on one tray for a full garden variety pack for say maybe $100 ish? Some basic vegetables, herbs, fruit… whatever is in season…just a thought. Very nice episode Gary!
I use a box fan on my seedlings before they go outside.
Thank you! I am curious if selling flowers also would be worth trying. I’m going to try this in the spring.
Awesome video but your sound is to low. I can barely hear you with my phone turned all the way up. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Gary for new ideas! I’m same zone as you. For this year I visited Amish farm supplier to stock up on the containers. Also first year I got to study what my local community values, and I’m going to grow only those this year.
Suggest making paper pots instead of one use plastic
You provide such a great project plan for this! So do-able! Glad you had a lovely anniversary trip! Even though we’ve not met, I feel like you are a part of my gardening family. Continued blessings!
My biggest problem with trying to sell the plants, is I started off trying to sell 100 plants. Even at $1 a plant, I couldn't sell the full 100 plants. But I only used word of mouth. I maybe sold 20 plants, and planted about 20 plants myself. So the other 60 plants were either given away or just died. I may have to revisit this idea again. I've since moved to a more farming type community since that time and there's a need for it this year with inflation going up.
I feel lucky there's an Amish family 15 minutes away from me, that sells transplants for 37.5 cents each. I give them more money because I feel that's too cheap.
This was super. I'm planning my first plant sale currently and this is the first video I've seen regarding this. Well thought out and helpful to starters, thank you!
Charge more.
Do you over seed your basil and things like lemon balm to sell
Also what kind of soil do you use when you are going to sell