Area nurseries are prepped for early-season anxiousness, whether your thumb is green or brown.

According to the Wisconsin Nursery and Landscape Association, greenhouse and nursery production accounts for $146 million in sales and supports 22,000 jobs across the state. Many of the people working those jobs have been busy for the last two months planting thousands of seedlings and getting them up to size so consumers can take them home and plant them in their own gardens.

It’s something Steve Sullivan has been doing at Sully’s Produce in Sturgeon Bay for more than 40 years. After being encouraged to take his produce to market in the early 1980s, Sullivan’s operation now encompasses several greenhouses, with thousands of flowers, vegetables, and fruit plants starting to take shape.

A lack of sun has some of the plants about a week behind where they could be. He says the soil you are planting in also needs to improve a little.

Sullivan expects to open for the season April 24. You can watch our full “Ask a Farmer” segment, brought to you by the Door County Farm Bureau, below.