patandchickens
Deeply Rooted
Obviously this is not an original idea, but since it took me this long to figure it out and do it, perhaps it might be of use to mention it for others' use too:
We had a yard sale, mainly to get rid of some unneeded chairs and chainlink fencing that were taking up way too much room, but also some spare horse equipment, outgrown toys, etc. It finally dawned on me a few days ago that I could also offer potted-up pieces of plants that I was already needing to divide (or reduce, or move, or entirely remove).
I already had a good supply of old pots available, piling up in the garage. And you know, it doesn't take all that much more time and energy to put a piece into a pot instead of move it elsewhere in the yard; and although it's more time consuming than tossing things on the compost heap, the actual amount of time involved is miniscule. I probably spent as much time writing out label information (on extra-wide painters tape) as I did potting things up.
It was just an experiment - though I did put 'plants' on the yard sale signs I put out - and I figured that whatever didn't sell, I would just unpot and move to wherever I'd originally been going to move it, or the things that I don't want at all (like the mint and catnip plants that I basically weeded out of other beds) I could take to the playgroup I go to and offer free to anyone dumb enough to want them.
I actually ended up selling about half of the stuff I potted up -- some nice things, like some interesting Campanula punctata cultivars, but also some really stupid stuff like mint
I believe I made $16 on plants. That's not a high fraction of the entire yard-sale profits, but it is $16 I would not otherwise have had. (Ooo, hey, I can buy more plants now <vbg>)
So you might really consider it.
Amusingly, I also had several people stop by to ask what the heck that *thing* is in the front yard (the chicken tractor), plus one gentleman who knew exactly what it was and was hoping it was for sale. LOL - had to disappoint him, the hens would be most annoyed to be evicted. If I was thinking faster, I would've tried to talk him into some of my extra Golden Campine cockerels, though
Pat, who got a tremendous amount of weeding and planting done while hanging around in the front yard between 'customers', so there's that, too
We had a yard sale, mainly to get rid of some unneeded chairs and chainlink fencing that were taking up way too much room, but also some spare horse equipment, outgrown toys, etc. It finally dawned on me a few days ago that I could also offer potted-up pieces of plants that I was already needing to divide (or reduce, or move, or entirely remove).
I already had a good supply of old pots available, piling up in the garage. And you know, it doesn't take all that much more time and energy to put a piece into a pot instead of move it elsewhere in the yard; and although it's more time consuming than tossing things on the compost heap, the actual amount of time involved is miniscule. I probably spent as much time writing out label information (on extra-wide painters tape) as I did potting things up.
It was just an experiment - though I did put 'plants' on the yard sale signs I put out - and I figured that whatever didn't sell, I would just unpot and move to wherever I'd originally been going to move it, or the things that I don't want at all (like the mint and catnip plants that I basically weeded out of other beds) I could take to the playgroup I go to and offer free to anyone dumb enough to want them.
I actually ended up selling about half of the stuff I potted up -- some nice things, like some interesting Campanula punctata cultivars, but also some really stupid stuff like mint
I believe I made $16 on plants. That's not a high fraction of the entire yard-sale profits, but it is $16 I would not otherwise have had. (Ooo, hey, I can buy more plants now <vbg>)So you might really consider it.
Amusingly, I also had several people stop by to ask what the heck that *thing* is in the front yard (the chicken tractor), plus one gentleman who knew exactly what it was and was hoping it was for sale. LOL - had to disappoint him, the hens would be most annoyed to be evicted. If I was thinking faster, I would've tried to talk him into some of my extra Golden Campine cockerels, though
Pat, who got a tremendous amount of weeding and planting done while hanging around in the front yard between 'customers', so there's that, too
I am going to take pictures of my iris and divide them up this August, maybe I'll try to pull together a yard sale then.
