Vegetable plant prices

I bought a nine pack at Wal-Mart for $3.00.

What variety? Early Girl? Ace? Local prices in my area are $2.50 for a

And, yeah, I still have cultural problems with Wally World and the depletion of currency from the local economy and the way Wally World's employees are treated.

I impulse bought my tomatoes from Home Depot and there were no 6-packs of anything. Bought four singles and two of the 4-inch. Not pleased with myself for not planning this better, like I tell myself every Spring.......

I saw Bonni tomato plants, 9 plants to a cellpack at Lowe's for less than $3. Wally World also had them. Look around. Don't go by one store.

Home Depot is a terrible bargain. Every Spring I have 4 or 5 places I go to get seedlings and Home Depot is always last on the list. Sometimes I'll find some exotic herb in a 4" pot there but for the basics I go elsewhere. You really do have to shop around to find the best deals.

More and more Heirloom "flea market" style places are cropping up. I usually get all my annual bedding flowers (marigolds for the tomato patch, clumps for the rain gutter herb garden, etc) there. Six packs for about a dollar, many less than that. And a whole lot of hippies, hillbillies, and weirdos from the hollers who have tons of practical advice for local growing. (and at Baker Creek, lots of great music)

cheers

oz, hurrying to catch up

When I want to buy plants, I never (What, never? Well, hardly ever.) shop at a lumber yard, hardware store, or home improvement megabox store. For garden tools, fertilizers, and toxics, I often go to one of those but not for plants. For plants, I go to a well-established nursery, many of which are found near my home.

Both the high-priced nurseries and the bargain nurseries nearby provide both individual and six-pack vegetables.

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says that if every person and organisation in a town spent 80 per cent of their income in the local economy, it would generate fives times as much as its original value.