I'm bumping this older thread to say that I contacted the state of Illinois early this year, and they told me I only needed a nursery license if I "overwintered nursery stock," which basically means sell trees. The point of the inspection and license is to prevent the spread of dreaded diseases that might infect orchards and other tree stock. It's very hard to spread disease and cause long-term impact with plants that are annuals in Illinois, like tomatoes and peppers. Typically, whatever disease you spread would die off the next winter, mitigating the public harm, so no state inspection or license is required. Once again, I'm talking about Illinois. Every state could be different.
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