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Empty flats are run through a machine that fills them with potting soil ready to plant at Buchwalter Greenhouse.

Shannon Sustar plants Basil Italian large leaf seeds with a hand seeder. Plants with small seeds cannot be planted by machine at Buchwalter Greenhouse.

Small seeded plants like this Italian basil have to planted with a hand seeder at Buchwalter Greenhouse.

After planting seeds at Buchwalter Greenhouse, the plants go to the seed starter chamber and are misted. The chamber is covered and the temperature is kept in the mid-70 degrees for a better start.

Tiffany Buchwalter Sustar, co-owner of Buchwalter Greenhouse, holds a tray of peppers just emerging from the potting soil in the seed starter chamber.

When starter plants get two sets of leaves they are transplanted into larger pots where they will grow to the size needed for sale at Buchwalter Greenhouse. The greenhouse is planting more plants in biodegradable pots to make them more ecofriendly.

Buchwalter Greenhouse employee Cindy Hudson transplants flats of milkweed seedlings for sale later this spring. Milkweed plants are a favorite of Monarch butterflies.

Flats of Easter Bonnet White Alyssum seedlings at Buchwalter Greenhouse are catching some rays as they continue to grow to the size needed to be sold.

Tiffany Buchwalter Sustar, co-owner of Buchwalter Greenhouse, stands in the middle of a greenhouse full of plants that were started either by seeds or cuttings for sale this season. She is holding a geranium cutting from a large plant that will be planted to become another plant.

Tiffany"Buchwalter Sustar, co-owner of Buchwalter Greenhouse, waters a greenhouse full of young geranium cuttings that will be ready for sale this spring.

A hibiscus is in full bloom at Buchwalter Greenhouse, just waiting for a customer or a honeybee.

Cloverland Greenhouse co-owner Sue Hennis places marked popsicle sticks in flats of Delphinium plants. This year the greenhouse will go through about 12,000 sticks, she said.

Geraniums, started from curttings, come in a variety of colors at the Cloverland Greenhouse located near Charm.

When seedlings are big enough they are transplanted into a "cow" pot. The pot is made from sanitized cow manure slurry and decomposes very quickly in soil.

Cloverland Greenhouse co-owner Kevn Hennis works to get seedlings ready for sale in their greenhouse near Charm in Holmes County.