Tag: rambling

Dad probably wonders why I get so buckwild whenever he’s out mowing the lawn every time but like???? How can I NOT where do I even start on the oldest memories of losing plants to him. In the past he has (not in chronological order);

– Weedwacked several potted Rose of Sharon seedlings that were HIGH UP ON CHAIRS. The pots were ripped apart as much as the seedlings.

– Nearly mowed our only official female ginkgo tree sapling which was MARKED (and by nearly I mean “definitely drove close to it that he would’ve only realized he was by the fact the mower blades were hitting wood”)

– The time he almost set the ENTIRE QUARTER OF THE ORCHARD ON FIRE DESPITE US TELLING/SCOLDING HIM TO FUCKING STOP BURNING STUFF THERE. The ashpit it left in the grass/lawn for that area is still there despite it being over a year or two cause of how severe it fucking was.

– The fact said fire(s) have lead to HIS OWN spruce sapling to become halfway dead due to the severe heat/fire damage, and he IS CONFUSED AS TO WHY WE WANT TO REMOVE IT WHEN ITS SO SEVERELY DAMAGED AND AT THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY.

– FUCKING DROVE OVER A GINKGO TREE TALLER THAN DAD HIMSELF WITH THE FUCKING TRAILER. WHEN THERE IS PLENTY OF FUCKING DRIVEWAY SPACE RIGHT BESIDE TO MISS EVEN IF YOU WERE DRIVING LIKE A DUMBASS.

And those are just the things I remember. There is probably a fair bit more my brain has catered to making me utterly completely forget (thank you for once brain).

So when I hear lawnmower and him in the same sentence when I not only have all my potted birch trees outside the greenhouse (they needed to be out of the greenhouse environment to give the pests a harder time) PLUS my potted Tangutica clematis in the morning before breakfast or even before I’m awake OF COURSE IM GONNA EXPLODE IN A RAGE-FILLED ANXIETY. I kill plants enough without having assistance with the ones that actually do ok for me!!!

Also don’t take my word of raspberry/strawberry hybrid to mean you can cross them easily. That particular hybrid is not in much literature for a reason; it’s difficult to do and the results are fruitless mules. I still feel like me even reading of such an existence was a feverdream from long ago.

Imo it’s one of the more Frankenstein breedings of the horticulture/botany world.

Since it may be wise for me to sell most of my deciduous tree saplings this year I’m going to work on some selling hooks to stir interest since trees seem to be so difficult to sell if they’re ain’t windbreak trees these days.

Well the good news is that now I KNOW the shade cloth will do its job for the Jacks in the greenhouse this summer. The bad news is, that explains why the sun-loving lavenders haven’t been exhibiting their rich Mediterranean gray colour. Whoops.

Kittens are so fucking cute and tiny, they’re like little faes with their melodious mewls, bright shiny eyes, and their need to play/swat at everything. Such innocent little balls of angelic cotton. They melt hearts into putty.

KITTENS ARE SO FUCKING CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE.

I better be paid in compensation transportation for chiropractor treatment for grabbing/carrying a rouge calf, not once, not twice, but thrice this week. Feel like I have a foreign entity jutting out from my back from that.

One plus with irrigating plants from well water with no fertilizer/pesticide additions; can soak that sweet sweet ice-cold water onto your arms/face on a hellishly hot day to gain limited heat immunity while working.

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I feel such an anxiety spike whenever trying to figure out what I should be charging for the plants I’m selling. My brain can to a degree measure/gauge what an art commission should sell at to a degree, but potted perennials/trees feel up in the air! I can judge what’s a good plant buy (I’m a cheapsake for buying plants), not so much for what’s a good plant sell (as in a sell which consumers will come for while still leading to an actual profit for the seller). Google isn’t particularly helpful for helping me figure this out…

Any perennial/tree sellers out there have a system for how to mark a plant up for its selling price?

I think I have a rough system though not foolproof (since it still depends on weighing the price a plant is sold in other nurseries);

-If it’s in plug trays wholesale it would be priced the lowest, so around a few cents to a dollar per plant if not less. High numbers of selling plant would be key for this to be any worth and would have to be sold within the year or less.

-in containers like 1 gallon it depends on a lot of factors, but for a fast/average growing fully mature perennial it would likely sell at 7 dollars at the highest retail, theoretically/logically it would mean that in wholesale it’s best to split the price by half or so, so therefor $3?

-trees and slow growing perennials theoretically would follow a similar rule as above, but the price would need to be higher, probably (spitballing out loud here) at least $10-15 in a one gallon container? When I picture such trees of larger size / in larger containers, 15 dollars is a pocket change deal for a retail consumer for a largish tree, but a stinger in price to a starting-out seller. Wholesale for those would be therefor at least $5????

This is of course not factoring in things like shipping (if personally driven delivered. Actually mailing it too expensive) but may be what I can use for a baseline…… Hopefully my gut is taking this reasoning of price right.