How to Make Money Growing and Selling Vegetable Starts

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Go to your local garden store and pick up some packs of vegetable seeds.

   Get the seeds from the most sold (and highest quality) vegetables.
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   Step 2: If you have a greenhouse

   If not, you will need to start your seeds indoors.
   
   Or build a small cold frame. , Slightly cover your vegetable seed with a little bit of dirt. , They will grow fast.
   
   Real fast.
   
   After they get about 4-6 leaves, transplant them into 4" pots to be sold.
   
   Time to start the next set.
   
   Just set the new seed right where the first set was growing. , Keeping the soil warm will increase growth rates.
   
   Grow larger stronger root systems and beautiful plants.
   
   Put a little tent over the top of the seeds for better germination rates.
   
   Provide some sun, but not full sun. , With bottom heat, you can have these plants ready to sell in about a month and a half.
   
   Now sell these little beauties cheaper than the local stores, and sell out.
   
   Plant the leftovers in your own garden. ,, Organic veggie starts.
   
   You can make a tidy little profit doing this.
   
   You figure if you have 300 plants for sale at $2 to $3 a piece. , Or at your local Mom and Pop shops.
   
   Or restaurants or even large grocery stores.
   
   Many people want to buy the plants.
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   Step 3: start growing them.

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   Step 4: Get your soil ready and sprinkle seeds out in a row.

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   Step 5: Once the seeds germinate.

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   Step 6: Provide bottom heat.

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   Step 7: Keep it organic

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   Step 8: as much as possible

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   Step 9: because that's what sells.

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    Step 10: After selling the first few plants

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    Step 11: you will make your money back and the rest is profit.

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    Step 12: Offer organic vegetables starts in your local classified ads.

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    Step 13: Sell at a local farmers' market.

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