How Do You Grow Bedding Plants For The Market?
Growing bedding plants for the market is a way to turn a green thumb into extra cash. Before you press seed to soil, study your local market to know who’ll buy your plants, how many bedding plants you’ll grow and what types of plants are most popular in your local market. Cost out and acquire the materials you’ll need to grow in quantity. Unless you’re marketing your bedding plants as a labor of love, estimate costs and revenues, establishing prices that ensure you’ll pay your expenses and make a profit. Set up empty seeding trays with plastic undertrays on tables or shelves. The undertrays will capture excess water. You will most likely begin your market-bound bedding plant project in late winter after you’ve determined what type and how many bedding plants you’ll grow for the market. This longer lead time gives your bedding plants a chance to grow and flower before you take them to the market. Mark the plant types on popsicle sticks. Tape the sticks to the sides of the seeding trays.
