The heat is starting to climb, so the early season stuff is starting to struggle a bit. Looks like terra cotta beats plastic and big beats small. There you go, empirical evidence of a fact everyone already knew: plants prefer the expensive pots

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      21 days ago

      I usually will ask a client to order extra straw when they put in an order in and pay for the extra bales which I know is not helpful

      Tractor Supply is a good have-to-have-it stop, but you can get it cheaper at feed supply or garden centers. A particularly helpful garden center or nursery might order some for you if they don’t already carry it

      Go to your local farmer’s market and hit up a market farmer, ask around a bit. Failing that, Craigslist is still surprisingly useful and I still ain’t never been stabbed in the liver once