This spring, I started selling young plants at Samstagsmarkt, a local market in our city. My initial intention is to restart a food educational project for kids that my partner and I started 4 years ago. I brought dwarf veg plants such as dwarf tomato/paprika/eggplant plants so that kids can grow them on a balcony or even on a windowsill.
Unlike what I imagined, plants were bought by adults for themselves. Probably it's partially because it was just after the lockdown. Most of the visitors to the market was adults. And the far beyond best seller was Shiso (Japanese summer herb), not the dwarf vegetables. Shiso syrup was well received too. Ja that's business. Full of unexpected things and it's fun ð
After I finished selling dwarf veg plants, somehow I shifted to the direction "make extra" of mine. I read in a book "business is to share joy, then money follows". I realized that's true based on my own experience.
What I can improve next year is to plan planting cycle more. This year I could roughly got to know what and how much I plant every week or two weeks. Definitely I planted too many tomatoes too early ð
Last but not least, another good thing was I had plenty of chance to speak in German. It was fun to try to talk my favorite plants. I'm thankful to the curious and kind visitors.
I'll bring cold hardy vegetables next month and take a break. I already started thinking about what to bring next year. It will start from selling seeds.
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