Here we go again. More nonsense.

[YumYum]

You can get 2 spinach plants at Bonnie plants to grow your own spinach for $17.99.

Or you can just buy 10 oz of spinach at the store for $1.98. That is my local price. Yours may differ by a dollar.



Spinach matures in about 40 days. I think I'll just start my own from seed again cause I like my own food.

 

[Meadowlark]

$9 a plant is ridiculous! Wonder what tomato plants are going to cost this year... fortunately mine are well started on window ledges along with tomatillo and peppers.

 

[cpp gardener]

Thank you Trader Joe's.

 

[Mr_Yan]

Find that local feed-store and old school garden shop. The big box stores have prices like this because many are idiots. I have a little old shop almost 2 miles from home and a 6 pack of pepper plants are still about a dollar each.

 

[YumYum]

Find that local feed-store and old school garden shop. The big box stores have prices like this because many are idiots. I have a little old shop almost 2 miles from home and a 6 pack of pepper plants are still about a dollar each.

Thank goodness the county next to me is an agricultural county and they start their own plants in greenhouses for a reasonable cost. I always go there if I need to buy any and they have what I need.

 

[Ruderunner]

Local greenhouse here is 15 bucks a flat for vegetable plants. About 50 cents a plant, not bad.

 

[Meadowlark]

Local greenhouse here is 15 bucks a flat for vegetable plants. About 50 cents a plant, not bad.

Not bad at all. So, a flat is 30 plants?

 

[YumYum]

I think a flat from them is something like $20 or $22 from memory. I didn't buy any plants last year. Used to be something like $12 per flat before Covid.

They use the 1"x2" cells so that should be 48 plants for $22 (~46 cents per plant). I personally prefer to use 2"x2" cells and that is 32 plants per flat.

 

[skinyea]

Years ago I would buy plants from home depot or lowes. Have not had to in years. just go from seed. I do still stop by and look every year. the small plants are around $4.99. to do at home costs around .18c.

 

[Hdan]

Years ago I would buy plants from home depot or lowes. Have not had to in years. just go from seed. I do still stop by and look every year. the small plants are around $4.99. to do at home costs around .18c.

That's what I'm learning to do, start everything from seed.

 

[Ruderunner]

Not bad at all. So, a flat is 30 plants?

32.

But, unless I want some early crops, stuff that gets planted in March or April, it's easier and not that expensive to buy from the greenhouse.

They're also convenient, I can swing by on my way home from work.

Another greenhouse opened last summer, a little more expensive but better selection. Both are smaller family owned.

 

[Mr_Yan]

Price check.

Stopped by my local old school garden and seed store yesterday.

Seed packs

$0.85 each
Onion Ruby Red - 1/4 oz
Onion Yellow Sweet Spanish - 1/4 oz
Lettuce Grand Rapids Leaf - 1/4 oz
Lettuce Buttercrunch - 1/4 oz
Turnip Purple Top White - 1/4 oz
Watham Butternut Squash - 1/4 oz

$0.90
Hybrid Spinach Lakeside - 1/4 oz

These are the shop's seed packets not national brands like Burpee or Ferry Morris.

 

[Meadowlark]

Yes, they probably buy in bulk and then repackage and sell in small amounts...that's what my feed store does and is about the same or cheaper in price.

 

[Mr_Yan]

Yes, this shop is a bulk distributor. I have been shopping there for the 5 years I've lived back in Michigan and can see the swings in price on the seed packs. 75 cents when I first moved here. $1.05 at the height of seed shortage trendy-garden stupidity. Now back to 85 cents for packs. Notice all the packs I listed are old school open pollinated type. As you would expect some of the designer hybrid tomatoes and peppers are more expensive.

 

[YumYum]

Price check.

Stopped by my local old school garden and seed store yesterday.

Seed packs

$0.85 each
Onion Ruby Red - 1/4 oz
Onion Yellow Sweet Spanish - 1/4 oz
Lettuce Grand Rapids Leaf - 1/4 oz
Lettuce Buttercrunch - 1/4 oz
Turnip Purple Top White - 1/4 oz
Watham Butternut Squash - 1/4 oz

$0.90
Hybrid Spinach Lakeside - 1/4 oz

These are the shop's seed packets not national brands like Burpee or Ferry Morris.

I knew something was off kilter when it wasn't being weighed in metric terms.

1/4 oz is 7,087 mg. Seems like Ferry Morse and Burpee are in something averaging ike 700 mg packets. You have awesome prices there.