Selling Plants

[Rain]

Has anyone experience of selling vegetable plants they've grown from seed on plant stalls? If so, what sort of prices do people charge? I have rather a lot of some plants and was curious as I've seen an advert for a local plant sale and info on booking a table, but wouldn't have a clue of how to price things, having not much experience with buying from them. Thanks.

[Rain]

[RSJK]

Rain  charge what you think is a fair price for them, enough to cover your cost and labour for doing so, And remember you have to cover the cost of booking the table.

[littlegem]

a garden centre near us are charging £1.60 for toms, and they've only got 2 leaves! hate to think what they're gonna charge when they're a lot bigger! ::)

[adam04]

go for enough to cover your costs abnd labour plus a few penc extra.  make sure you stay under nursery prices etc or people wont buy.

Too low and people will think they might die, too high and people would rather go to a garden cnetre. optimum level and lots of sales!!!! its called price elasticity   8)

thats probably confused you even more, but thats what you need to do in order to sell products.

[Rain]

Thanks everyone... I suppose comparing to nurseries is the best bet... after all, how do you really gauge labour?! *nuturing, talking to them, hoping, etc, etc*  :D

[weedin project]

Mrs Project & I are hoping to do a garage sale in a fortnight.   Pricing was a matter of some entertaining debate - at one point she actually said "10p each, or 2 for a pound", and she was serious! ;D ;D
In the end we think we'll probably settle on two prices :-
3¼" pots - 40p each or 3 for £1.00, that's for anything from toms to nasturtiums to strawberries via black grasses and bidens;
5" pots - 80p each or 3 for £2.00, which is for plants we've potted on and have more substantial root systems and growth

(by the way, black grasses cost anywhere from £5.95 to £9.95 per plant at garden centres, but propagate easily from prolific runners!  Buy one, get hundreds free! 8) ;D 8))

If all goes well I'm hoping we'll be able to cover the cost of all our seeds/compost/feeds/pots/labels/etc. so that we get free fruit, veg, and flowers out of it. :)

[Mrs Ava]

Good idea!

At our little local nursery today they were doing single strips of polystyrene trays for 95p each, so about 6 to 8 little plantlets for 95p.  Those were brassicas and lettuce.  The cucumbers were a pound a plant - I didn't look at the toms but I figure they must have been a similar price.

Wish I had the gumption, I have ooooooooooooodles of hibisicus plantlets all growing like mad in the greenhouse, but I have no idea on the variety!  :-\

[cleo]

I sell plants as a hobby business.

Steph`s rules;

1-don`t expect to make much

2-Quality is a matter of pride

3-Stop crying when folk drive past on their way to a GC only to pay more for rubbish

4-`Boot` sales can bring in a shilling or two but check the location-finding somewhere where folk have gardens,greenhouses etc but are not keen enough to grow their own is happy hunting ground

5-smile,offer advice but gently shoo time wasters away.

[Tora]

I bought two plants at a car boot sale today. Oregano (golden one) and echeveria. They were 50p each and were in 7cm pots. I thought 50p was very cheap!
Good luck with selling your plants. :)