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Thursday, April 6, 2023

Mennonite Plant Auction: 4/6/23

While on my blogging break, we attended this Mennonite plant auction ...


as you can see, there were lots and lots of plants ...


and they were all just beautiful!

We walked the floor choosing which plants we were interested in bidding on and then I got out of the way when the bidding started.  Hubby took over at that point!


Here's what he bid on and got ...

20 flats of garden plants and flowers!!!
(cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, pepper, tomato and marigold)

Some of the flats he got for $2 per flat (there are 48 plants in each flat).  That was the lowest he paid, the highest was $9/flat.  To say that we feel blessed to get all these plants at such a low price is an understatement. We brought the plants home (yes, our vehicle looked like a rolling greenhouse going down the road!) and started calling our friends and offering to share our bounty.  When all is said and done, we will have shared with 5 different families in addition to having all the plants we need for ourselves.

As a point of price comparison, we stopped at a Mennonite greenhouse for some herb plants and noticed that their vegetable and flower plants started at $18/flat.  
Yep, we did pretty good!

 Until next time ...

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10 comments:

  1. Beautiful plants at amazing prices but best thing was seeing a post from you🙏❤️😊☀️

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  2. How lovely. What a deal on the plants. There will be a lot of groceries for the year in that deal.

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  3. So great you could share the bounty with others. You are a blessing to so many. Happy Easter, Cookie

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  4. Great prices. Good to you back even if it’s temporary until you come back😀

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    1. LeeAnn, we were pretty pleased with the prices ourselves!

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