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  • From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Value added and profitability
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:41:07 -0500

Barb,
 
I can tell you, everything sells better when it is in bloom.  Doesn't matter what it is... roses, buddleia, ajuga, heuchera, coreopsis, daylilies, princess flower!, or impatiens or petunias ... are you tired of this list already?
 
Flowers simply draw attention and that makes sense.
 
As for your question, we just repotted our 4.5" perennial stock to one gallons.  I figure that is how they will sit 'til next year if they don't sell this year.
 
Funny thing.  We sold them for about $5 in 4.5" and sell them at $7 in one gallons.  We repotted.  Higher for some ferns and tall prairie grasses.  People aren't done with their yards yet.  And why should they?  We're not close enough to the end of the perennial planting window to honorably shut it down. 
 
For what it's worth, we have some great perennial growers at our farmer's market who have some great plants.  I look to them to tell me when to shut down perennial sales.  Maybe I'm dumb but they have the hort degrees.
 
Oh, and I have some experience with when they pulled out of the market each fall. 
 
Del
 



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