Re: About Eco-Tulips

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

On 19 Oct 2009, at 04:50, Susan Harris wrote:

> I've been chatting with these folks and here's my report:
> http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2009/10/ecotulips.html
>

Interesting that there is report of longer vase life. We started  
selling flowers as well as veg at our local food coop a couple of  
years back and we could sell ten times as many if we had them, mostly  
because, according to our customers, they have a much longer vase  
life. To be honest we hadn't put much credence in this - we reckoned  
it was probably more because there is less handling between us and the  
customer's vase. But maybe I'll do a bit of experimenting - there is a  
conventional grower up the road who grows many of the same things we  
do so I can use fresh cut from both of us - though not til next spring  
because although we manage to have something to cut all winter, he  
doesn't

kathryn
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