Guides for wholesale growers

Plain, practical writing on the parts of running a small wholesale nursery that actually eat your week — the list, the price, the count, and getting paid.

• Availability lists

  How to build a wholesale availability list (with a template)

  What belongs on a wholesale nursery availability list, how to group and price it, and a free template with the columns buyers actually use.

• Pricing

  Pricing wholesale plants: a working guide

  How small wholesale growers actually set prices by container size, readiness, and channel — and the per-container math that keeps a bench profitable.

• The buyer side

  How landscapers actually order from small nurseries

  A look at how landscapers and garden centers really source plants from small wholesale growers — and what makes a supplier easy to order from.

• Counting

  Counting your nursery without losing a week

  Practical ways small growers keep lot counts current without a week of clipboard work — walking the crop, capturing counts, and trusting the number.

• Getting paid

  Net-30 for growers: invoices and statements that get paid

  How small wholesale nurseries invoice on net-30 terms and send monthly statements that actually get paid — without becoming a payment processor.

• Seasonality

  Spring rush survival: the weekly publish ritual

  How small wholesale growers survive the spring rush with a simple weekly ritual — walk, count, publish the list, confirm the orders.