Online Plant Sale – Ends Tomorrow
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I came across this plant sale online and thought I’d share. The Urbiculture Foundation is having a plant sale. You can purchase either a bulk share, or individual plants of edible landscape plants for you yard.
This looks like an economical way to plant an edible landscape, with plants that will easily integrate into your yard. Over the years, most of these plants will increase in yield and spread. They say that these plants will produce fruit for 10 or more years, if cared for appropriately. Strawberry and raspberry will also expand into the size bed you prepare for them, so be prepared for spreading. If you can’t use a full share on your own, you could “share” a share with a friend. Or you can buy individual plants.
Each full share contains:
- 30 Asparagus Roots
- 80 Strawberry Plants
- 6 Raspberry Plants
- 6 Blueberry Plants (multi variety)
- 4-6 Fruit Trees (multi variety)
They estimate that each share would cost over $450 if you were to buy potted plants at retail nurseries. They provide a discount by purchasing bare-root plants in bulk from reputable wholesale nurseries. Therefore, you can’t customize shares and no partial shares are available.
The only caveat is that this sale ends tomorrow! They also make the following disclaimer: Due to the non-profit nature of this endeavor and the rapidly-depleted inventories of wholesale nurseries, we reserve the right to make substitutions or refunds of our choosing. Possible substitutions or additions include grape vines and cold-hardy kiwi vines.
You can learn more about this sale here.
March 17, 2013 - 9:03 AM
Question KH? I see asparagus plants listed as 30 roots and strawberry plants at 80 in the full offer. When you click learn more they show the A roots at $3.00 and the strawbwrrys at $2.00. Do you get the same number as listed in the full offer? If so, then that’s a good buy.
wd- they sell them separately too, but I understand the full order contains 30 asparagus roots and 80 strawberry plants. Plus 6 raspberry plants, 6 blueberry plants and 4-6 fruit trees. They are bare root, but yes, it looked like a good buy to me too.
If you have the space the full offer for 85 bucks seems the way to go, altho I didn’t inquire about it. I did call the listed number[982-8289] and asked about buying just the individual order of asparagus[30 plants for $3.00] and the strawberry offer[80 plants for $2.00] and this is what I understood him to tell me. Only full offer was the prices listed. One[1] asparagus plant was $3.00 not thirty and One[1] strawberry plant was $3.00, not 80 plants. This sounds like a rip off to me. The Nature Outlet store at Grandin and Memorial is not affliated with the outfit, but the lady said the owner was a board member of the co-op as to her understanding. KH, you might want to check what I just put up. Since the sale goes off today, at least not many folks will get burned on individual ordering. The only good buy is the full offer, not the seperate offers.