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How Are Spring Sales For '2010?
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I use a whole array of water devices here at the nursery depending on the size of the plant(s) and how much speed I need to get the job accomplished. This could be a mist nozzle set to deliver a few ounces of liquid per minute to my 4" valves in the…
We had a 5% increase for February, even though the weather was terrible (though not as bad as late January....) and so far March is trending up as well. The organic veggies are starting to move and we are seeing a lot of interest in our new liter ri…
That's great to hear Michael. I know it's early but I hope some other folks have similar stories to tell as they get up and running this spring.
Good for you Michael. I am on the north side of Houston. We haven't had a single week this year as good as last year...so far. It is just the weather. We had our second biggest day ever this Saturday though. Year to date we are down about 41%. This…
I realize that it is too early for spring sales in the Mid West and Northern part of the US but would like to hear from others in the Deep South how their initial Spring sales are going so far. I have opened my nursery for the past 37 years the firs…
Susan, I don't think the labels themselves are the big problem, it's the water soluble ink that is used in ink jet printers. My experience is that the ink even when dry will run when exposed to high humidity or water in a greenhouse/nursery environm…
None of the Paclobutrazol products will cause dampning off of plants but the water it is mixed with applied in copious amounts under damp, cloudy cold weather conditions can add to fungal problems. During the Winter months be sure your soil mixes ar…
Could you be a bit more specific? Forecasting what? Wholesale Prices, Retail Prices, overhead, gross sales, net sales, percentages of customers vs. age groups, labor cost per unit, the weather, percentage as too gross domestic product? Thanks...
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How much soil or soil amendments to buy in for a particular season, in my case, just comes from experience. As with most dinosaurs in the business I still mix my own potting soil for crops and know approximately how many batches it takes to fill mos…
Karen, I do not commercially grow Blueberry plants here at my nursery but have wild and named varieties at a weekend property in the East Texas Pine Woods. I do know that out in nature in Texas they thrive in a sandy well drained soil that is acidic…
I thought livestock made its own fertilizer ! :)
I have to agree that "maintenance" is the key to keeping any style injector working properly. All the brands I mentioned in my post above each had their particular maintenance parts that occassionally needed to be traded out and this has been with a…
Gerald, I am not familiar with the Dosatron units. In the past I have used the no longer made HPI unit from England, Dosmatic, Chemilizer and am now using the Anderson "Andy Jr." When I was first in business years ago and had absolutely no money to…
Gerald, I have used a single injector for my nursery for over 25 years from back in the days when they cost many thousands of dollars even for the smallest unit and have grown many, many successful crops this way. It is not necessary to feed every s…
Joe! Joe! wake up! There not taking cuttings from you for all of these pots.
Carrie, This is a tough problem to work out especially when you take into consideration your labor force. I am a one man operation with no employees and grow close to 40,000 plants for Spring sales so the thought of individual pricing on each contai…
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- At 10:28pm on March 26, 2009,
Steve said… - Yeah and the Proven Winners Patent police show up at our place every spring to make sure we aren't steal'in from them. Reminds me of a Limeric Ah once heard...
" There's a mouse knawing at ma cupboard door.
He's been knaw'n at it fer ah month or more.
And when he gets in thar he's sure gonna be sore...
there ain't a dang thang in thar! :)
- At 8:03am on March 7, 2009,
Michael Pawelek said…
- Graduate of Texas A&M University-Class of 1976 in Horticulture. Owner operator of Pecan Hill Nursery-Brookshire, Texas
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