Nurseries see growing demand as pandemic produces more at-home gardeners

Traditionally, when a customer walked into Greenhouse Garden Center to buy seeds, they would pluck a few packets from the rack and move along.
Since the pandemic took root last spring, however, customers are grabbing seed packets by the handful and then some.
“A lot of times last year, and even this year, we’re finding people coming in buying 20 to 40 packs of seeds,” David Ruf, owner of Greenhouse Garden Center in Carson City, said in a phone interview with the NNBW. “They’re buying for family or somebody else in the neighborhood, or they’re trying to grow even more vegetables than usual.

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