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This past year I ran a gardening club at the school I work in. It was a big success and I plan on continuing it, but thought it might be fun to do a plant sale in the late Spring/early Summer. I've never done anything like this before and was hoping people might have some good ideas: what plants would sell well, how to set things up, what works, what doesn't work, etc. Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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I kind of did it, (well my DD did for her civic award) selling tomato plants cherry were very popular and chillis - cayenne. The tomatoes she could have sold twice over, and the chillis went ok.
It was all eco friendly - we used old yogert pots etc.
When we did the school plant sale (part of the summer fayre) round mid june, I donated pumpkins, toms, and mini cucumbers, (aimed at kids) and most of them were still there at the end.... -
Hm, that's interesting. I was thinking of maybe doing some veg in modules (amongst other things) and selling it like that, but maybe people aren't interested in that. Do you know what was popular at your school's plant sale?Originally posted by northepaul View PostLast edited by zazen999; 25-08-2010, 07:49 PM.Hill of Beans updated April 18thComment
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What is popular at school fetes is sunflowers; chillies; tomatoes; anything in flower & looking pretty. Cut-and-come salads are good too.
The target market aren't usually gardeners: they don't want anything difficult/expensive/ugly.
We made grass heads in our garden club, they were hugely popularAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Yeah I agree TS, I aimed the pumpkins and cues at kids (not literally
) but in reality the people buying the plants were us old fogeys, wanting flowers etc (I bought some iceplants and a new lenten rose which promptly died) whereas the kids were gathered en masse around the sweet tombola!!
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we've held a plant sale on site for the last couple of years we brought tiny bedding plants at the start of the season potted them on in pots we'd collected from freecyle, did herb & strawberry hanging baskets as well as some annuals, did a cake stall & refreshments & raised £750ish this year, herbs were very popular & we'd planted them in baked bean or tomato tins (banged a hole in the bottom for drainage - good recycling)
we did some toms, chillis, peppers etc but have to say the flowers did best sales wise.The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...Comment
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I haven't done any sales but the ones I've been to seem to do well selling tomato plants, herbs & colourful bedding plants like petunias etc. I suppose if you could get some plants from cuttings of nice or unusual perennials as well they would sell if you priced them cheaply, people always like to get a bargain.Into every life a little rain must fall.Comment
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I used to grow for a local shop and if it had a flower and looked healthy it sold at a reasonable price.
I have just had a seed and plant catalogue with wallflowers at 2 euros each!!!!!!!!!! A pinch from a packet of seed has given me 150 good healthy plants. Methinks the French have more money than sense!Last edited by roitelet; 26-08-2010, 04:45 PM.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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So it seems that tomatoes and chillies do the best, followed by flowers and herbs.
I was thinking of adding to the mix some non-plant, but garden-themed things, like bird feeders, wind chimes, flower-shaped magnets, etc that the children would make themselves. Does anyone have experience selling these sorts of things and how well they do?Hill of Beans updated April 18thComment
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That sounds like a good idea. I bought a nijer seed feeder from a charity sale which had been made just from an empty plastic coke bottle, it had a small stick pushed right through it towards the bottom to act as a perch & small slits cut into it a little higher up & pushed in slightly so that the birds could get to the seed & it had then been filled with seed & the cap put on with twine tied around the neck to hang it up. Fairly simple to do but effective.Last edited by SueA; 27-08-2010, 02:06 PM.Into every life a little rain must fall.Comment
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