We live near the town of New Summerfield, Texas, which is known for a thriving wholesale nursery industry. When the local horticultural agent for our local master gardeners assocation emailed us and offered to take us on a tour of one of the largest wholesale plant nurseries in Texas, I jumped at the idea.
Bale after bale of potting soil:
Neat machines fill soil into the trays:
A worker loads seeds into the funnel, which then places the seed perfectly into the tray:
The sown seeds get covered with a shower of vermiculture, then watered:
Germination!
Here was the line where they pot them up into the larger 9 pack trays:
And then they wait for the trucks to take them to the nurseries around the region.
