Advise on starting your own garden business

When you go into the garden business the biggest problem I feel is that you
are dealing with a perishable product and inventory.  Inventory is not tax
deductible.  You have spent the money and you cannot deduct this product cost
until you have sold it.  So it just sits on what is called a balance sheet and
waves at you.  Most small business fail because they are not probably
financed.  In order to build up a business when you first start, you need to
put money back into the business.  This is fine if someone else is supporting
you.  But if you need to make a certain amount in order to pay your bills at
home it is tough.  In the garden business, it is a very seasonal situation
which means that you need to survive somehow through the winter.  Let me tell
you of my situation -- all I do is talk about plants which I love so I thought
I will work part-time at a garden center.  It will be fun.  Standing on cement
floors all day is brutal.  It is hard work sweeping the floors and cleaning
counters not to mention lugging plant material and bails of peat moss around.
Talking to people and watering plants was fun but we all loved it and had to
take turns on the grueling work.  The green house would become unbelievably
hot and stifling in the summer.  Walking through the green house on a buying
spree I never even noticed.  Working in this environment was something else.
The turn over in help is an on going problem.   I would recommend going to
work for someone else first before committing yourself to any kind of business
endeavor.
Chris Braintree Z6

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