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DCarrington
Riverview, NB
(Zone 5b)
September 27, 2007
8:19 AM Post #4022510
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Well, it's the end of my season here. The store is closed.
Perennials need to be transplanted from their pots, the flower beds need to be cleaned out for next year, the vegetable garden needs attention now, for next spring.
I'm making monthly payments to the bank for the money I borrowed to do more land cleaning, filling, grubbed, (pulling out tree stumps is grubbing), driveway, parking lot, and general things to make the old shed into a store.
This time of year, I get down in the dumps and can't find the stimulus to keep going. I know that I need to get the perennials out of their pots and into the ground for the up coming winter months ahead, if I intend on selling any of them next year. (Hosta, Coral Bells, Roses, etc.)
But I just can't find it. I mean, I can't find the "motivation".
This time of year really brings me down. As a lot of you know, I've worked hard the past couple of years to build up some sort of business, and now it's over, "again", till next year.
I sold tons of bedding plants this year, (annuals and hanging baskets). Not as many as most of the other places around the down town area, but still, I did pretty well for my "real" first year.
Vegetable sales were ok, but, I wasn't prepared for all the free publicity the news papers and radio gave me. I ended up buying produce from other growers in my area and selling it at my store. There's no money to be made doing it that way. By the time I paid for the gasoline to get to the wholesalers and back, I broke even. I felt I needed to at least have something on the shelf when people came to the store.
The hired help wasn't very good. They played more than they worked and wanted to do things they wanted to do and not what I needed them to do. Conditions got pretty ruff for them and they decided to quit. (I don't fire people)
I became a member of the "Canadian Nursery & Landscape Association", "Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce", and "Landscape New Brunswick" this year.
It was a rotten growing season this year for vegetables. Cold, wet, and what heat we had during the day was lost at night when the temp went down at night.
Does anyone out there have anything to say that might get me "Up and going"? I need motivated!
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