Let Us Spray
Having grown bedding plants from the same location for the past 40 years there is a great deal of cash to be earned when you get things right, the location for sales to the passing customer is always the best method, passing trade is more lucrative than any of the on-line methods of selling plants. The growing of spring and summer bedding plants is by far the highest earner in the gardening trade and has been for a very long time, even back in the Victorian times there were more Lobelia plants sold at covent garden than any other plant, even out selling the Viola and they sold in the millions. With the introduction of the F1 hybrid seeds we saw a huge leap in germination of seeds sow and germination time, also seeds could be sown later in the year and still catch the market, the later sowing time meant that the seeds did not need so much artificial heat for germination. The down side of F1 hybrid seed is it does not store quite as long as open pollinated seed, but the upside is you need not buy so much to start with their are very few none germination.
More: continued here
Tags: Garden, Gardening, plants, seeds
