What Free Plants Actually Cost your Nursery Business

When planning crops for your own plant business or backyard nursery, it's tempting to think of plants you propagate yourself as "free". Long-term, this can lead to poor decision making - holding onto carryover plants for too long, over-propagating easy plants, and missing opportunities on plants that may have higher upfront costs, but outperform your "free plants" in other ways. Consider your own time (maybe your most limited resource), space, ongoing watering, soil, plastic, fertilizer and other inputs. In the long run, these can outweigh direct financial costs. I suggest that you choose plants according to local market demand/price rather than initial cost.

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