What gives?
Trust me guys, it's not what you think! I have my reasons!
WHY BUY?
Okay, you can see a pretty good cartload there, so I'll let you in on my reasons. I know that propagating plants is cheaper than purchasing them and that growing your own from seed is cheaper than buying seedlings from the greenhouse or garden store. However, cost isn't everything, now is it?
Well, the purchase price certainly did have something to do with it. At the moment I've got limited space, so I can only start limited numbers of seedlings. I'm trying to rotate through things and get them moving from seed, to seedling, to planted in the garden as best as I can, but I'm expanding the prepared garden area as I go too, so it's a lot of effort. To get five plants for fifty cents is only a dime a plant, so that helps out, especially since these are ready to plant.
You may also know that I prefer to grow food over ornamental plants, but this one has more purpose than just looking pretty. You see, this is a Marigold, and that is a special species of flower with well known pest repelling properties. As always, everything is disputable and many researchers would beg to differ, but I still like to grow these anyway.
The reduced price was because a lot of these "six packs" were more like "five packs" or even "four packs" since some of the flower seedlings had died. Also, some were broken or damaged, but the I think that the plants will live on, they're just tough like that. Since we have quite a large garden area, we've got room for some flowers anyway, and the large, bright flowers should help attract pollinators to the garden too!
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