Flowers, Plants, and Herbs, Oh, My...

A friend of mine grows the most beautiful flowers and plants and sells them at her little roadside stand. Now I can’t grow a thing. Every time I buy a little plant, I baby it, do everything to get it to grow, it just up and dies. So, after repeated times of this I just buy my plants from her.

She ask me if she could sell some of her plants and tubes on craftique and the answer is Yes! We do want you to sell your beautiful flowers and plants on our site.

If you grow herbs, they can be also sold on www.craftique.us.

There is a good market for dried herbs. More and more people are using natural home grown herbs in their food preparation as well as in making bath and beauty products. I purchased some fresh mint from a seller and it made the most wonderful tea! It was so much better than the “store” bought mint tea.

Tulip bulbs are another great item to sell especially when planting season comes around. There are a vast array of lily plants and people do buy the bulbs especially the “home” grown bulbs.
What I have found is that a plant nursery does not especially specialize in having a “good” product as they are mass grown. The person that has a smaller flower, plant, herb garden can take more time to make sure their plants are not given chemicals to help them grow but are using more green friendly products for their plants.

Now I do not know if this is true but my friend tells me that this makes her plants stronger and they produce more aroma, flowers, and are healthier plants.

Now another good product to sell is seeds. More and more folks are looking for the “old timey” seeds from plants. Hybrid plants do not have the same taste and are not as good quality as the “old timey” tried and true vegetables!

Take a tomato that you purchase in a grocery store. It can be a large or small one, it does not matter. This store tomato comes from a nursery, a large green house and does not have the same taste at all as a good home grown tomato! The seeds from lets just say a Beefsteak tomato could be gathered and dried and sold. This would be from your own home grown tomatoes!

If seeds were not important then why do we have seed banks?
So what this all comes down to is if you grow plants, flowers, herbs, and have seeds they all can be sold on www.cratique.us. Your plants are a good product to sell. You have those prize winning tomatoes, well save some of the seeds, take pictures of the luscious tomato to show people what the grown product will look like that will come from your seeds! I bet you will make yourself a good little niche for your seeds.

This goes as well for those that grown tubular plants, take tons of pictures of your plant in full growth, showing the different colors and types that you have, this will also help you to sell your plants!

It seems that most holidays have a flower or plant associated with it. Easter has the Easter Lily and many people purchase these for decoration for the home as well as for the gravesite of loved ones. And Easter will be coming up before we know it!

Valentine’s Day is soon here and Roses are the top flower to have at this time. So all you rose growers will be able to sell your roses on our site!

I suppose this is enough for now as I have a poinsettia that I need to take care of before it “gives up the ghost” and dies on me. Maybe next year I will just get a plastic one and I know it won’t die! But at least I tried, again, this year!

Have a happy time during the holidays!