Last fall, my market decided to open a week early for 2018. Today was the day. It was the most miserably sad market that I can remember...cold and rainy...and hardly even any vendors. much less customers. There is a winter market in town that was open for their last week this morning. It's also inside out of the weather. Obviously most vendors and customers went there instead.
Having said all that, I had a great morning. I sold most of what I brought. I know I did more business than anyone else up there, which is a very rare thing, given that I am a one-man show and other vendors are large families. No one else had live plants. One vendor had some cut spinach, otherwise there was nothing green there. Our weather has been cold, and it is very early in the season.
I had microdwarf tomato plants (a dfollet variety). Tasmanian Chocolate, Sol Guld, and Agatha are the larger tomato plants...next to the saddest-looking basil I have ever brought to market. Most of it sold though. If you have the only basil, you also also have the best basil, no matter what it looks like. The container greens are a mescalin mix, endives, rainbow chard, kale, and Ethiopian Blue Mustard (from Fred Hempel)
It's awful early to have a colorful market table, but at least I had a green one.
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