Originally Posted by Kat2

Perhaps. I have found much more variety here than in Jacksonville where they have nothing except sometimes a DC. However, I'm ready to drive back there just to pick up citrus from a licensed guy in Middleburg. His prices are less than 1/3 of here where tomato plants sell for $2 to $3 a piece. Not big ones but just Styrofoam or Beer cup babies. Legally you need a license to sell plants here; I'm all about legal. But the restrictions and price are nothing compared to up north. (Selling veggies requires registration but no fees.) I honestly don't understand why, in a perfect growing zone (which means no greenhouse or Herculean efforts to ward off the cold) even annuals are so expensive. Put a seed in a cell filled with decent dirt and it happens. I saw the same stuff in the Virgin Island when I was there on business in the 80s. Makes no sense to me but I hope to cash in on that at some point.