I bought a Garden Nursery and all its pots at a good bargain. I had my family help to get the hoop house and potting tables, and other things to start my own nursery growing business. Well, I could never get my family to help set up the hoop house. I had already purchased a misting system and had learned how to propagate plants.

So this was getting frustrating and to Diane D my sons had truck beds in the way of where I wanted to put the hoop house. They had been there since for several years, along with truck engines and stuff.

Finally, I decided that maybe I don't want to spend my time propagating plants and selling them. It was an idea that I could do due to where I live and the space and time I have. I didn't come to this decision on my own, a counselor suggested that maybe it would be too hard to do as I aged. And as I thought about it, I mainly wanted the extra money to pave my driveway or hire contractors to come in and do landscaping work that my busy family can't fit in to do.

So I finally had to haul my pots to a second hand store, although, after taking a full pick up full of them, I think it was too overwhelming for them. So I hope they didn't get trashed.

So I let go of getting rid of the rest of these pots for now until spring and then I will try my hand at Craigslist, as that is where I found the pots & hoop house in the first place. Or go to the local Nurseries to see if they want my pots or do something else.

I'm keeping the hoop house and after things calm down around here and my sons move the truck beds I'll set it up. And grow plants at my leisure, but not at the full scale operation I was hoping for. Also DH said that he could buy me pots in the future.

Now I have a dream of seeing the empty space again where all these potting tables and pots are sitting unprotected. It was very hard to let go of them. I did feel good afterwards to realize that as things were, the pots were going to get ruined one way or another and would need to be tossed. So it would be better to let them go now while they are in good condition.

I would like to become proficient in selling things, my husband does it all the time. But he has been doing it for years. If gardening was his passion things would be different, so I have to work with that realization that I have to learn new things and it will take some time.

I would give your sons a deadline to remove the stuff (do they still live with you?). If they don't get rid of it, then put it on craigslist yourself. If it doesn't sell, find someone to haul it away and pay you for it - metal is worth money these days (but you'll get more if YOU cam get it to the scrapyard).

If that doesn't work, put a FREE ad on craigslist or freecycle, bet it would go then.

As much as I love ebay, I don't want to deal with out of state people or shipping large items, so anything like that I posted on craigslist. I would always put a disclaimer of "cash only, exact change only, will not deliver". And on the heavy stuff I always stated they HAD to bring help, as a small woman there is only so much I can do.

I find with craigslist I decide on a price I want, and post it for more as everyone seems to want to dicker. That way I usually get what I really wanted and they think they got a bargain (couple of times I made out better )