Best prices on vegetable plants?

[hoggs222]

Where do you guys/gals go to buy your vegetable plants. I had a huge assortment and they all died!!!!! I put them outside for a few hours and were all wilted away.

Oh well! I'm looking mainly for tomatoes, hot peppers, etc. Would you try WalMart? I wonder how their quality will be there.

I guess I don't want to go to home depot and spend $3.00 on a tomato plant if I can maybe get the 4 for $3.00 that I've heard of some places having.

[glenn57]

first did you keep them watered. when they are in them little plastic things they dont stay wet very long, need to be watered more often. i went to thompsens greenhouse north of cold spring and paid $1.99 per 4 pac for all my garden veggie packs. paid $8.99 for daylillies there then found day lillies at menards for $4.99.

[hoggs222]

I did make sure that the soil was moist at all times. I put them out when it was 60+ degrees in the sun for a few hours in a partially shaded area. The next day they all looked like old lettuce you find in the back of your fridge. Some survived, most didn't.

[glenn57]

sounds to me a bit of frostbite. i figured out i done got $140.0 invested in garden seeds and plants. good luck man. menards should be reasonably priced.

[KEN W]

Did you buy them out of a greenhouse or grow them under lights yourself?It sounds like they were not used to the sun....they always collapse the first time out until they get used to it.

[hoggs222]

I grew them in front of a window from seed. I guess I'm not too worried about those ones. I just want to go out and buy some plants for this year and then try again next year.

Do you know if Menards, WalMart, etc. have 4 for $x.xx deals like a garden center or are they individually priced?

[hoggs222]

I went to Linders off of Larpenteur in St. Paul and their 6 packs of veggies were $2.79 or $2.99.