No, its not a "get rich quick " scheme. But pay 10 cents for a pack of bell pepper, jalepeno or tomato seeds and sow them in pots or salvaged milk jugs . Get those seedlings up in the greenhouse using grow lights and sell those plants when they reach six to ten inches tall for $1 to $2 apiece. 60 plants per seed pack are possible.

Chuck can check my math on the percent profits, but at 10 cents a pack, whatever the math , it's almost "found money"

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), April 08, 2002

Answers

My sister does this and has a big yard sell every spring. She sells yard sell things and potted plants. She makes a killing! Michelle.

-- Michelle Thomas (mpthomas83@hotmail.com), April 08, 2002.

Yeah, now you only have to sell 10,000 of them to make it worthwhile! :-)

-- chuck in md (woah@mission4me.com), April 08, 2002.

Sounds good, but what about the expenses?

Potting soil, cell packs, pots, etc., electricity for the grow lights, heat, etc.

Around here quality plants from the local greenhouse go for $.49.

Yes, there is no doubt money to be made if you know what you are doing. At least the local greenhouse keeps expanding and is now hauling from Kansas into Missouri. I heard a semi-truck load a week of foliage plants.

Consider this as well--plant that greenhouse full of tomotoes and peppers and sell the produce. One tomato plant can yield a lot of poundage that sells for a pretty hefty price. Besides you can eat what you don't get sold. Um, nothing like a nice ripe tomato.

-- Notforprint (Not@thekeyboard.com), April 08, 2002.

Pot packs can be done for as little as .015 cents per plant through use of vermicompost,yard soil, kittylitter , newspaper wrap and plastic stadium cups.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), April 08, 2002.

Technically it is not interest but return on investment. Say you start with $1 and do something every day to double just that dollar (no compounding). At the end of the year you have $364 ROI on the original $1. No idea what percentage that would be.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), April 08, 2002.

All true, but you also have to keep up quality. If you ever pass on parasites to you customers, they will be gone. It happened to us once, as buyers. Last time for that place.

-- MartyB (mebtn@hotmail.com), April 08, 2002.

if you start with $1 and end the period with $364 roi + your original $1, your rate of return would be 36,400%.

-- Dave (multiplierx9@hotmail.com), April 08, 2002.