Lights used for growing seedlings, dahlias, cuttings: we daisy chain garage lights.
Shelving used for growing indoors: We use Seville shelving, most of which was purchased a long time ago for my art room… Most of our shelves are 60” long, but we have other sizes as well.
Zip ties, S hooks, power brick, timer for power brick/lights
We buy our propagation trays at our co op, but these are the same dimensions and seem to be similar to what we use:
10” x 20” x 2.25” bottom tray/72/humidity dome
‍ ‍deep 6: 5” x 7” 3”D = 36 plugs in one tray
‍ ‍7” humidity domes for cuttings from greenhouse megastore
heat mats
heat mat sensor controls
Potting soil and seed starter: we use Sungro horticultural products from our local growers co op. They also make retail products (Black Gold) you will recognize and can purchase outside of a co op.
We get all of our 4 x 4 x 5 pots (one quart) from our local growers co op. They are from East Jordan plastics.
Oscillating fans used to keep PM (powdery mildew) down and to strengthen stems of new seedlings.
We spray GrowSafe bio-pesticide for PM in our basement grow area.
Super awesome electric sprayer for GrowSafe and hydrogen peroxide spray for gnats
Fungus gnat control: gnatrol
GoVee temperature sensors

Floral snips used to divide dahlias: Cyrus brand and Garden Guru Bonsai tree trimmers
Plant tags
Garden markers We also used grease pencils. Do not use sharpies on surfaces that will be weathered. We do use sharpies to write on tubers.
Potting tray: Garden tidy
Digital thermometers to monitor temps in dahlia storage areas: Govee
waterproof apron for washing tubers

Reflectix thermal bubble wrap at Menards
shipping boxes (we used 12x12x12) These were nice, study boxes.
72 hour heat packs for shipping to farther destinations, or cold destinations.
We reused brown kraft paper to stuff around our package, but it’s basically like this product which we also use to bundle our flowers in season.
Scale for shipping
Thermal shipping labels to use with our rollo printer and label holder
Do Not Freeze labels
Temperature data loggers used for shipping pilots

Irrigation: To begin, we used one of the kits from DripWorks but we have since bought parts and pieces from additional sources. The most important thing to remember is to make sure the sizes of the different parts match. links to kits and parts that we use: www.dripworks.com‍ ‍www.DripDepot.com‍‍
Landscape fabric used as weed barriers and to kill areas using occultation (lack of sun) for new beds. We do not solarize because it kills the microbiome.
Molasses used in 2025 to improve Brix Scores. Also horticultural dry molasses. We primarily used the liquid form and ran it through our irrigation system. (In 2026, we will add farm made probiotic/fermented amendments based on Nigel Palmer’s book Regenerative Gardening)
Osmocote fertilizer for peonies and perennials
We use Milstop and Cease in the field to keep down pests and PM. We apply the weekly on a rotating basis. Milstop is a spray, Cease can be applied through the irrigation or as a spray.
Information for cover cropping: check Johnny seeds. We use stock peas, wheat or oats, and dutch clover in the early spring. We add buckwheat in the summer. The fall before we went no-till, we sowed mustard which is a natural anti fungal and helped us get our fields ready.
mosquito dunks in our little froggy pond and why you should set up a mosquito bucket
Geobins used around the yard (near neighbors) to cleanly and aesthetically compost yard waste
sun hat