We narrowly avoided disaster this week!! We forgot to order plant plugs a few months ago for this coming spring. Apparently our salesperson called on a busy day & I didn't return her call & she didn't try again. Result: We need plugs in 2 weeks and they were not ordered.
Let me explain what a plug is: Greenhouse growers plant seeds in trays & grow 50, 100, or 200 little plants in the tray, depending on the size of the tray. When each plant has a healthy mat of roots, it is time to pop each little plant out of its little space in the tray & plant it into a larger pot, usually the pot it will eventually be sold in. There are greenhouses who make a business of growing thousands of plugs for little greenhouses like ours to buy. When orders are placed in the fall and before the first of the year, the growers know what they need to grow. At this time of year, it is difficult to find the plants that you want if you didn't place your order ahead of time. After a desparate search through several availability lists of some of the major growers, we finally located everything we need!! Yah!!
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