A Colorful Market Table

[Cole_Robbie]

Thanks guys (and gals).

Here's a few recent pics. The top pic is my mom and step-dad's produce, and the pumpkins in the background of the bottom pic are theirs. My flowers are at the other end of what has been a colorful market table as of late.

[bower]

Wow! Beautiful table, Cole. Really nice to see the flowers with that gorgeous produce!

[ginger2778]

Sooooo beautiful, I am melting.

[imp]

Lovely, and an excellent presentation, too. Hope you sold out, sure should have!

[clkeiper]

that is all awesome. the flowers are a beautiful color.

[Rockporter]

Beautiful to see such a nice table. I would have made a beeline to that one.

[gdaddybill]

Makes me wish I lived closer!

[Cole_Robbie]

Thanks! The tall pot mum has proven to be a great attention-getter. People stop, stare, and just have to come over to ask me what it is. Even other market vendors who grow flowers tell me they have not seen one before. They are a bit of a pain to grow and transport, but I think worth a space on the table just for the way they draw customers.

[imp]

A piece of string or soft twine around it gently to support the longer branches, maybe? Snip at market for display.

edit:

I meant while loading/transporting.

[clkeiper]

Cole, pinching them back or spraying a growth retardant helps immensely to keep them more compact. I hope I am not retyping this thought. I remember you mentioning it earlier and I don't remember if I responded or just thought it and didn't have time to type it.

[AKmark]

Nice product Cole, best of luck.

[SueCT]

What a beautiful display! The flowers and the vegetables. I would be thrilled to shop there if it were at my farmer's market.

[clkeiper]

Cole, any idea what variety of broccoli and cabbage you have on the table? they are both very nice looking. I did not have a broccoli crop this year. got too hot and it bolted and then the cabbage loopers have destroyed the little that survived. I should have checked them before this week but it just didn't happen.

Beautiful! Adding the mum's this fall was brilliant. :-) Love that color, too!

[Cole_Robbie]

Thank you.

They bought their broccoli plants from a local nursery, so I am not sure about the variety. Late garden plants are difficult to find. It's hard to grow starter plants in the typical summer heat and bugs. They had great broccoli, but their cauliflower plants made all leaves and tiny heads. They probably just need to grow a different variety. I only saw a little bit of cauliflower at market this summer. It is not especially easy to grow in my climate. I think it gets too hot here.

Plant sellers often don't get rewarded with higher prices when they buy expensive seed. Hybrid seed might be 100x more expensive than OP, but the market price of a flat of plants is still the same. That's another reason I try to sell individual plants instead of selling them by the flat. I can spend 10-20 cents on one seed and make it back by selling a $2 plant. Flats of 48-72 plants only bring $10-15, which doesn't pay for expensive seed.