Honesty box selling

[Small pumpkin]

Agree with VC the more common / well known stuff sells better.

[Chestnut]

If you are worried about the barrow being pinched/used as a go-cart, you could secure it to a buried concrete post?

[Snoop Puss]

For the less well-known stuff, might pictures or a description help? Plus charge extra, to make it seem a luxury?

[JanieB]

Lovely idea but unfortunately I can't. The front of my house is straight on to the pavement and our local council is a bit like a pitbull when it comes to blocking the pavement (unless its cars).

So far I have almost 100% germination. I planted far more than I need as I had such a big failure rate last year. I have friends who live on one of our new housing estates and have miniscule gardens but like to grow things but have nowhere to propagate them. They've already got dibs on some of the plants.

[Small pumpkin]

For the less well-known stuff, might pictures or a description help? Plus charge extra, to make it seem a luxury?

Tried that. When I started a couple of years ago. I had little information notes ( about business card size ) in perfect fit, clear zip lock type bags ( like you get seeds in from some companies) stapled to each pot. Still didn't make much difference. My prices are always varied for different things. Ranging from 25P (usually herbs in very small pots or reduced stuff because I really don't want to plant them myself) to £1.50 ( the expensive stuff is chillies, unusual tomatoes and weird & wonderful). I've stopped selling chilli and tomato plants though . They never go on the barrow because they look cr@p after a couple of days ( bashed about by the wind and the cold, yes even in June, July & Aug! ) so I had a note saying come find me if you want chilli or toms, listing what I had available. No one ever did. So I've stopped. Apart from a couple of customers I grow to order for.

[Guest]

Lovely idea but unfortunately I can't. The front of my house is straight on to the pavement and our local council is a bit like a pitbull when it comes to blocking the pavement (unless its cars).

If you place any goods/items on public paths etc. you are meant to apply for a street license. I don't know of any councils that follow through on checking though.

[Small pumpkin]

Here's the egg sales box (opposit side of the gate to the barrow).
They just leave the money in the box.

[Bacchus]

How much would a bag of standard tomatoes sell for from an honesty box -say 2lb? About 60p or so?

Presumably for the more fancy varieties you could have a "take one to try for free" bowl. Then when they're addicted put the price way up..

[Snoop Puss]

If you place any goods/items on public paths etc. you are meant to apply for a street license. I don't know of any councils that follow through on checking though.

I used to live in a town south of Manchester. The town inspector there checked everything. Maybe the smaller the town, the more likely they are to follow up.

[Birdie Wife]

I sell eggs at my office when I have surplus. All the money goes to charity (the charity I work for) and I usually get a little more than I ask for. What can I say, I have lovely colleagues

[veggiechicken]

How much would a bag of standard tomatoes sell for from an honesty box -say 2lb? About 60p or so?

Presumably for the more fancy varieties you could have a "take one to try for free" bowl. Then when they're addicted put the price way up..

2lb is a lot of tomatoes. Check the price and weight in your local shop and undercut it!

[Guest]

Presumably for the more fancy varieties you could have a "take one to try for free" bowl. Then when they're addicted put the price way up..

You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink. I remember selling off toms at a village show with lots of different varieties, perfectly ripe etc but struggled to get bids. However the under ripe moneymakers fetched the same price as in the shop So backing up VC really with the common stuff.

I would bag toms up, maybe 6 salad type or 4 beefsteak to a bag and ask 50p. Smaller quantities are likely to sell better. It only tends to be nutty gardeners who like their fruit and veg by the barrow full.

[Guest]

One finished cart to go out next week hopefully. The money box is more glamorous than planned after seeing SPs fantastic one.

[Snoop Puss]

^One question: can people take the vases too?

[Small pumpkin]

That's lovely NG. Good luck with your sales.

Mine normally goes out at the end of this month. Not sure anything will be ready this year. With the cold start we've had.