Loss of a job has led me to doing what I like to do best for some extra $$$ this summer.....growing plants. Of course any $$ earned will probably go right back into the gardens. Its an addiction.

Here's some of my babies before we head to market on Saturday. Wish me luck.








Pam NJ 6B

Your plants have trouble selling? Right? Pam's plants are perfect everybody, perfect.

Thanks Ward, that means alot to me. These past couple of days and the sun/heat has doubled the size of them. Did I mention I lost a few of my TOMATOE PLANTS?

Pam NJ 6B

Pam,

Good luck with your new venture. Let me know when to pick up my stuff.

Suchie

Pam those are incredible!!! I don't know how you do it! I'm all brown thumbs when it comes to making seeds grow.

I couldn't get the pics to enlarge, so I did it myself...hope you don't mind, but ppl should see what the close-up looks like!






Incredible!

Diana
Upstate SC
Zone 7b

Diana,

I knew I liked you for a good reason! I almost hate to part with the babies, but theres still twice as many in the basement awaiting their chance to catch some rays! Did you ever go to the Train Station Market in town? Little flea market but local and cheap to rent a piece of pavement. My luck it will rain and no one will show........

Do you still have Hummers? Haven't seen any pics from your Novabird Camera. DH found a website selling the camera for $239. Ouch, glad I ddin't sell my spare!

Pam NJ 6B

Pam your plants look real nice. Good luck at the market.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Good job Pam, I wish you the best with them!



- Andrew - Ontario, Canada - Zone 6
- Won't Get Fooled Again ~ The Who.

Pam
Those babies look fantastic!

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Thanks everyone, I'll let you all know how I make out!

Pam NJ 6B

Those are bigger and healthier than some of the stock I have seen early in the season at local nurseries. You have done a super job!

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Those plants look great pam. And ya know, if they don't sell, maybe you can sell them on here? I'm just sayin.

kathy t.
shebly twp., MI
Zone 5/6

Pam,

those plants look wonderful! I'm sure you'll do fab when you go and sell them...
Good Luck!!!

Susan Louise
from Branford CT/ live in Lincoln NE
Zone 5

I already have 2 orders from the girls at the gym I go to! Success! Someone emailed me from Cheapcycle and wanted to know, and I quote:

"Another question is whether woodchucks eat your plants? I have one living under my backyard."

Anyone??


Pam NJ 6B

No Pam, haven't been to the Train Station Market up there, but you're making me want to learn how to grow seedlings - to take to the one we have here, I'll tell ya!! I know you'll sell out...rain or no rain!

Yes, hummer's still here. I'm only seeing my little guy about once a day now since the girls arrived. In the evening he comes and sits on "his" perch for a little while.





Diana
Upstate SC
Zone 7b

Pam, Woodchucks prefer food crops like berries and veggies but will eat the flowers of some plants. I don't think they will bother salvias or agastaches but not positive. We have a family that lives across the road under my neighbors house and I see mom or dad out every now and then munching on grass.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Penny,

Thanks for the reply. I kind of half (wood)chuckled when I read her question. I would have thought they eat EVERYTHING. My sister has a one that climbs about 25 steps up to the top of her deck and ate everything It could reach! She thought the deer were flying till she saw him one day. Now she has a fense accross the doorway of the stairs so he climbs but than can't get in.....yet!

Pam NJ 6B

Woodchucks do not eat salvia and agastache. They are a plague in my area. My neighbor tries to shoot every one he can but there is no keeping up. Our arrangement is he shoots them and I bury them - a fair deal.

Ward,



Pam NJ 6B

Pam ~ Those plants are SO healthy! Tell us what kind of potting mix you use, fertilizer, lights, etc. And I'd love to know the names of all the different plants you're selling... do you have veggies, too?
(Also - Can I borrow your green thumb??? )

LindaSkyview
Western NC mountains
Zone 6b - Sunset Zone 36 - Heat Zone 4,5,6

Pam,
I wish I could come and get some! Your plants are beautiful!!!!!

glo
Zone 5 8500 ft up the Mountain in Colorado!

Linda,

I do start with florescent shop lights, but not heaters or mats. I think a warmer growing area would be desirable, but I fear space heaters! I used MG seed starter mix because the stuff I used last year was unobtainable. But next year I want to use Promix, there is a formula that has a biofungicide that sounds first rate. I'm not knowledgeable enough to MIX MY OWN yet. I use Neptune's seaweed and Fish emulsion as fertilizer. As soon as they have their true leaves I repot into half peat and half Sunshine compost potting soil. I see that nurseries keep them in peat longer for root growing, have to look into that....I learn from hands on experience (and a few suggestions from some forum friends). Here's a partial list of what I've grown. There's more in the basement waiting their day in the sun, but I need to clear these greenhouses out first. And most of that is for MY GARDEN. The Salvias grow the fastest and I believe they will be the big sellers. But I've had alot of questions about vines and Agastaches. I think I'm successful because I spend alot of time with them.

Agastach Tutti Frutti
Agastache Alcapulco
Agastache Firebird
Agastache Rupestris
Agastache Salmon & Pink
Cana Robert Kemp
Helianthus Large Sunflower
Milkweed, common
Mina Lobata Firecracker Vine
Purple Hyacynth Bean Vine
Salvia Coccinea Forest Fire
Salvia Guarantica Brazilian Form
Salvia Subrotunda
Salvia Coral Nymph
Salvia Lady in Red
Salvia Black & Blue

Pam NJ 6B

Delivered my first order for plants. I made $30, gave them a free Mini Hummer Feeder and headed to the nursery for 2 Honeysuckle Vines (Coral and Late Dutch?,looked vey pretty!), hit another nursery for some Lavender and Abutilon Melon Sorbet,.

$32.99 first nursery
$18.00 second nursery

$50.99 Total Spent
$30.00 less plants sold
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$20.99 in the RED...Not Bad!

Pam NJ 6B

Agastaches are the real buggers. Compared to salvia they take forever to grow a solid root system and mine usually have to be fished out of the cells with a fork. Fortunately they are pretty forgiving and grow anyway. I learned my lesson this year and sowed Agastache cana seed on New Years day and that batch has done reasonably well. I wish I had had the seed of the other types, but those had to wait for the Hardy Plant Society seed sale. We ended up being overwhelmed with cana seedlings. Hopefully the gardeners in Cape May will like 9 for $5.00. I would if I was looking.

This morning I realized that cuttings of the hybrid Desert Sunrise could be taken. They sailed through the winter without a loss and each plant has several dozen nearly a foot tall shoots. Presumably taking cuttings now would not set them back too much and it is a heck of a nice Agastache, especially when planted with pink flowered greggii and microphylla.

Ward,

I repotted my Agastaches out of the little 3 inch pots into 4 inch for sale tomorrow. I was quite happy with their root growth. I hope you had the ones I gave you in the sun (?), mine exploded over the 4 days of intense heat we had, doubled in size. The roots were quite larger (thicker ) than the salvia's, is that why they are hardier? So much to learn! Next year I know what plants to start earlier.

I'm glad you decided to plant the Agastaches I gave you in Palmyra instead of selling them. I kinda cotton to the idea of a little corner of your gardens as Pam's Aggies!



Pam NJ 6B

Glo,

Send me a plane ticket, I've never been to Colorado and would love the chance. Those could be some pretty expensive Salia's though...S&H!

Pam NJ 6B

Pam,

E-mail me Saturday night and tell me what you have left and I'll reply by Sunday a.m. Then you can make an "order" and bring it to Steve's on Sunday - and I will pay $$$!

Ron

Wilmington, Delaware
USDA zone 7a
Heat zone 6
Sunset zone 32

Ron,

WOW! If I wasn't temporarily unemployed, I'd be insulted. But hey, you gotta love a man with $$$$!! What are you bringing to the swap? Well, never mind, I'll email you tomorrow afternoon!

Pam NJ 6B

Hi Pam,

I didn't mean to insult you! I just meant I would buy the hummingbird plants from you rather than expect you to give them to me for free, which is what folks normally do at a plant swap.

Wilmington, Delaware
USDA zone 7a
Heat zone 6
Sunset zone 32