Market Farming

["Lynn Byczynski" <growing4market AT earthlink.net>]

 I'd sure like to have some explicit suggestions on 
>what to grow (from my point of view and from the customer's point of 
>view). Also, I'm interested in where you would recommend I buy 
>gladiola bulbs as I get started.
>
Allan, PYO customers are not very discerning, in my opinion. They love
everything. Just be sure to have a mixture of shapes and a long season of
bloom. The absolute easiest flowers to grow - requiring no support net, no
STS treatment, easily grown from a direct sowing or from your own
transplants - are larkspur, agrostemma, snaps, zinnia, monarda lambada,
salvia blue bedder, celosias of all types, cinnamon basil, achillea
colorado, veronica, lysimachia clethroides - oh, there's so many I could
write a book on it. Seriously, you will find the info you need in my book.
As for a source for glads, try Waushara Gardens at skimel AT uniontel.net or
Miedema Bros. at 815-427-8470. Good luck.