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The Donkey Bucket Challenge (Watch Video)

How to Make Money Growing and Selling Mums (Chrysanthemums)

My Month-By-Month Plant Propagation Guide

Mike’s Plant Farm Spring Ad

Mike’s Big Perennial Bed by the Month.

$180.00 per Square Foot? Is it really possible?

Over Wintering Rooted Cuttings.

Mike’s Big Perennial Garden

A Profound Thank You from Mike.

An Old Guy, Two Donkeys, a Puppy and a Hammock. What could possibly go wrong?

An Upside Down Donkey and Cute Puppy.

‘Rockin Raspberry’ Bee Balm.

‘Bubblegum Blast’ Bee Balm

‘Blue Angel’ Hosta.

‘Big Daddy’ Hosta

‘Humpback Whale’ Hosta.

Ice Plant, delosperma

‘Electric Red’ Dianthus

The Right Way to Treat Your Flower Bulbs after they Bloom.

Power Equipment, Pain in the Backside!

Photos, Landscaping Ideas from My Butt Ugly Landscape. Worst Landscape Design Ever!

Busting Gardening Myths!

How to Move Heavy things the Easy Way.

21 Plants that are Easy to Grow and Sell Like Crazy!

Rooting Dappled Willow from Hardwood Cuttings and Starting a Fun Little Business with Nothing but a Handful of Sticks.

Tips and Tricks for Growing Plants from Seed.

What is a Plant Patent and How Do they Work?

Fall Plant Sale at Mike’s Plant Farm!

My Landscape Design Skills Suck!

How to put a ball and burlap on a bare root tree that has been previously dug.

Mike Interviews a Very Successful Backyard Grower from Tennessee.

Red Prince Weigela

Digging and storing bare root trees for later potting.

The donkeys helping me put up a sign.

This is how you stack $5,000 worth of trees on a pick-up truck.

Mountain Fire Piers Japonica

Rooted cuttings, heeled into pots until we can get them potted.

Heuchera Coral Bells ‘Fire Alarm’

Huechera, Coral Bells ‘Prince’

Blue Angel Hosta

Hosta, ‘Rainforest Sunrise’

Dianthus, ‘Appleblossom Burst’

Bubblegum Blast Bee Balm

Pow Wow White Coneflower

Trahlyta Daylily

Lavender Cupcake Butterfly Bush, Buddleia ‘Lavender Cupcake’

Prince Charming Butterfly Bush, Buddlea ‘Prince Charming.

Shirobana Spirea, Spiraea japonica ‘Shirobana’

Red Hot Poker, Kniphofia, uvaria ‘Red Hot Poker’

Tardiva Hydrangea/Hydrangea paniculata ‘Tardiva’

Autum Joy Sedum/Stonecrop

Stonecrop, Sedum takesimense ATLANTIS®

Let Amazon help you with weed control in your gardens.

Storing bare root trees/plants over the winter.

How to Stop Mulch from Washing Out of Your Beds

Pink Diamond Hydrangea, Growing, Selling and Propagating this Amazing Plant.

Harvesting Rooted Cuttings from the Propagation Bed.

Phantom Hydrangea, Hydrangea paniculata ‘Phantom’

Teaching Weeping Japanese maples how to grow into beautiful trees.

‘Millenium’ Ornamental Onion

Weeping Cotoneaster Tree.

Growing, Selling and Propagating Silver Dollar Hydrangea

The Perfect Plant for a Shady Garden, Jack Frost Brunnera

A Different, Simple Landscape Design Idea.

How to Design Effective Landscape Lighting.

Growing, Selling and Propagating Dark Green Arborvitae.

Mike McGroarty Interviewed On Western Life Radio (April 4, 2020)

Inventory at Mike’s Plant Farm in Perry, Ohio

Little Business Daylily, Hemerocallis ‘Little Business’, Reblooming Daylily

Eenie Weenie Daylily, Hemerocallis ‘Eenie Weenie’

Can I use Well Composted Horse Manure in My Garden?

Purple Ghost Japanese Maple, only $15.00!

Covid-19, the Corona Virus and the plant business.

Mike Does a Radio Interview

Home Gardening and Electricity. The Dangers!

Growing, Caring for and Propagating Miss Kim Lilac.

Beautiful Snow Covered Plants.

Growing and Propagating Black Eyed Susan, Rudebeckia

Edging a bed with a Nursery spade. Not a Shovel!

Gardening Things You Should Know for Spring.

How to Grow Weeping Pussy Willow from Cuttings.

Those Silly Donkeys!

Crimson Queen Laceleaf Weeping Japanese Maple

Backyard Growers Shindig 2019

My Elevated Fuel Tank.

My 64th Birthday!

Hydrangea Macrophylla ‘Nigra’

A Bird’s Nest Made with 100% Donkey Hair!

Turning Free Wood Chips into Amazing Compost/Growing Soil

The Kubota Zero Turn Mower.

Just Some of My Favorite Hosta Varieties.

Why is one side of my Japanese maple, or just one large branch completely dead?

An Easy Way to Build the Perfect Trailer for Moving Plants.

A Simple Way to Build an Underground Root Cellar.

The Perfect Evergreen for a Heavily Shaded Area.

Silver Dollar Hydrangea

Organic Weed Control, an Alternative to Chemical Herbicides.

Rare Japanese Maple Varieties $15 and $20 each!

Mini Skirt Hosta PP26743

Sunsation Magnolia

Sadie’s Delight Japanese Maple.

Trimming Liners Before you Pot them.

Plant Growers Workshop and Wholesale Buying Opportunity

Rare, difficult to find, Japanese maple varieties.

Wholesale Plant/Nursery Stock Sale Event! 3 Days!

City Girl Rakes in $4,500 in two Short Days Selling Small Plants from Her Tiny City Lot.

A Really Easy Way to Make Lots and Lots of New Plants.

Non Patented, Public Domain Plants that You Should Be Free to Propagate.

Preparing a Lawn for the Planting of Grass Seed.

How to Get Rid of Yucca.

Reviewing Garden Wagons and Garden Carts.

Free Mantis Tiller!

Mike McGroarty Speaking at a Gardening Expo Sponsored by the Michiana Master Gardening Association and You are Invited!

22 Edible Plants You Can Grow and Sell From Home

The Shoppes or Shops of North Perry.

Creating Winter Storage for Canna Lilly’s or other roots, bulbs or seeds.

Growing, Selling and Propagating non Patented Heuchera, also known as Coral Bells.

Which Fertilizer Is Best?

Reviewing the Mantis 58 volt Tiller/Cultivator.

Reviewing the Mantis Electric Tiller/Cultivator.

A Weed Free Vegetable Garden!

Silly Videos and Random Thoughts . . .

We are Giving Away a Mantis 4-Cycle Tiller/Cultivator!

Wholesale Nursery Stock in Perry, Ohio.

Reviewing the Mantis Electric Tiller/Cultivator

Simple Landscape Design Ideas.

Tips on Over Wintering Ornamental Grasses.

Growing, Selling and Propagating Rhododendrons.

Removing a Dead Animal from a Well.

Digging Bare Root Japanese Maples to be Potted.

Selling Plants at a Flea Market.

Reviewing the Mantis 4-Cycle Plus Tiller/Cultivator

Potting Soil! What can I use to make my own potting soil.

The Mantis Back Porch Compost Tumbler.

Growing and Selling Heuchera, Coral Bells.

Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud Trees, only $25.00 each!

Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea, Hydrangea paniculata ‘Renhy’

Mike and Pam McGroarty Visit with Backyard Growers from Georgia and other Southern States.

Our Family of Backyard Growers.

The Nursery, Plant Tag Printer that We Use.

We are Giving Away a Free, ‘Purple Ghost’ Japanese maple.

Free Japanese Maple Tree!

Over Wintering Ornamental Grasses.

Free Pruning Shears!

Waterfall Japanese Maple.

Backyard Growers Tour Brotzman’s Nursery

How to Get Rid of Standing Water in Your Yard.

It’s an Exciting Time to be a Member of our Backyard Growers Business Center!

Rooted Cuttings. Heeling them in, storing them until you can get them potted. When to fertilize them.

The Correct or Proper Way to Trim Shrubs.

How to Prune Flowering Bushes the Easy Way

Purple Ghost Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum ‘Purple Ghost’.

Valve Trouble Shooting.

Growing, Selling and Propagating Creeping Phlox.

Visiting One of Our Members, a Grower in Pennsylvania.

Growing, Selling and Propagating Patented Coral Bells also called Heuchera.

2017 Spring Plant Sale at Mike’s Plant Farm in Perry, Ohio 44081

Review of the NorthStar High-Pressure Tow Behind Tree/Orchard Sprayer — 21-Gallon Capacity, 2 GPM, 12 Volt

How to Separate Used Nursery Containers (pots) Easily.

A Review of the Field Tuff ATV Cultivator.

How to Sell Plants from Home.

Braiding Golden Curls Weeping Willow Trees for Patio Planters.

The Simplicity of Rooting Thousands of Cuttings in Your Backyard.

Planting A Pollinator Garden

Growing, Rooting and Propagating Dappled Willow in Tree Form from Cuttings.

Growing, Propagating, Dividing and Selling Hostas for Profit.

Homemade, permanent plant tags.

The Donkey Chronicles. Mike McGroarty and his miniature donkeys.

Growing Seeds, Winter Sowing, in Milk Jugs and Kitty Litter Jugs.

How to Buy and Resell Raspberries, Blueberries and other Fruit Plants from Home.

The Correct Way to Pot Rooted Cuttings, Nursery Stock Liners and other Plants.

Mike McGroarty Swapping Spit with a Donkey.

Training Arborvitae and other Conical Evergreens to Grow with a Single Leader.

How to Propagate, Root Cuttings, of Dwarf Alberta Spruce.

How to Over Winter Ornamental Grasses in Containers.

Offering Landscape Design, Landscape Consultation to Your Nursery Customers.

Things to Do in and Around Cleveland, Ohio and Northeast Ohio.

How to Make a Backyard Greenhouse with Four Hula-Hoops.

Start a Garden Club at Work!

How to Grow Perennials from Seed.

Gardening in January No Matter Where You Live!

Putting up a Building in Five Hours!

Which Boxwood Makes a Nice Low Growing Hedge?

Thank you Tim and Patty!

The Little Yellow Dog.

A Very Simple Landscape Design Idea.

Free Pruning Shears, Free Memberships!

The Ten Minute Plant Show.

Rooting Cuttings in December and January.

The Magic Candy Dish

The Wrap Around Potting System.

Growing Hydrangeas from Cuttings in the Fall or Winter.

Growing Roses from Cuttings in the Fall.

Re-Landscaping Older Homes, Gardening for Extra Money.

Shindig 2016 at Mike’s Plant Farm in Perry, Ohio

This is Why I Do what I Do.

We are Giving Away Two Memberships to The Backyard Growers Business Center!

Hardwood Cuttings, Winter of 2015/2016.

Achillea ‘Saucy Seduction’ common name ‘Saucy Seduction’ Yarrow. PP20782

Enchanted Eve Coreopsis, commonly known as Tickseed.

It’s all about Arithmetic and Believing in You.

We are Giving Away a Free Backyard Growers Membership

An Open Letter to Mike McGroarty and the other Members.

Dwarf Alberta Spruce, growing them from cuttings and caring for them.

Heeling in Japanese Maple Trees, Rooted Cuttings and other Plants.

April Gardening Ideas and Things to Do in the yard.

The $5.97 Plant Pricing Model.

Mike’s Miniature Donkeys Running for President

Pulling Rooted Cuttings from the Sand Propagation Bed.

Blue Rug Juniper! Growing them, propagating them and using them in a landscape design.

We are Giving Away a Free Backyard Growers Membership.

Controlling Voles in Your Yard and Garden Organically.

Forever Pink Hydrangea

Blue Mouse Ears Hosta

Mike’s First Backyard Nursery

Our Family of Backyard Growers.

Easy Way to Sharpen Pruning Shears.

Growing, Selling and Propagating ‘Pink Whisper’ Potentilla

Win This Mantis Tiller!

The One Gallon Plant Conspiracy.

Gardening in January, No Matter Where You Live.

Proper Nursery Plant Tagging.

The Art of Stacking Plants in a Truck.

Book Review-Garden-pedia by Pamela Bennett and Maria Zampini.

We’re Giving Away a Free Gardening Gift Basket!

Abbotswood Potentilla, Growing, Propagating and Selling them.

Gold Flame Spirea, Growing, Selling and Propagating this Awesome Plant.

Pruning plants in the nursery before winter.

How to Winterize Sprinklers, Irrigation Lines.

Growing, Selling and Propagating Tango Weigela

Moving a Large Laceleaf, Weeping Japanese Maple Tree.

Unrooted Hardwood Cuttings for Sale.

Growing, Selling and Propagating Variegated Liriope Liners and Plugs.

Growing, Selling and Rooting ‘Alleghany’ Viburnum

Who will Buy the Plants that I Grow?

How to Grow Japanese Red Maple Trees from Seed

Annabelle Hydrangea Propagation, How to Root Cuttings

How to Make Your Own Awesome Potting Soil.

All Summer Beauty Hydrangea

Variegated Weigela, an Excellent Plant to Grow and Sell from Home.

Backyard Nursery Tools of the Trade, Things to turn you into a successful grower.

Skunks digging, moles tunneling, why are they digging up my lawn?

Exactly what is and Where Do I Find Coarse Sand for Rooting Cuttings?

How to Build a Plant Propagation Bed for Rooting Cuttings.

How to Build Your Own Solar Powered Generator

Huge Plant Sale this Weekend!

Growing Landscape Plants from Seed

Fall is the Ideal Time to Repair Lawn Damage.

Huge Plant Sale this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept 18th, 19th and 20th!

Fall Lawn Fix Up Tips

Fall is the Time to Plant Garlic

How To Prune An Overgrown Japanese Maple Tree

Fall Rose Plant Care

Growing Christmas Cactus and Amaryllis

What To Do in September in Your Garden

This App Identifies Plants From Pictures

This Really Cool Flower Pot Grows With Your Plant

Cold Frame Projects

How to Get Rid of Skunks

Starting a Backyard Nursery in August

Tricolor Sedum aka Stonecrop

Why Do Tomatoes Split?

What is a Liner Plant?

Green Giant Arborvitae, Deer Proof?

EXPOSED: The Secret Life of Roots

She’s Getting Sued By Her Neighbor For Having Backyard Chickens

How to Sharpen Pruning Shears

Stock Plants and Growing in Containers

Spider Mites Eating Your Plants?

Stuffed Squash and Zucchini Blossoms Recipe

“Skeleton Flowers” Become Transparent When It Rains

Strawberry Growers Are Forced to Use Ozone Killing Pesticides

Lawn Rust

Can You Make $100,000 From Yard Waste?

Backyard Nursery Success Story

What’s Hot in August? Balloon Flowers

390-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived An Atomic Bomb

Don’t Touch This Plant… You Could Go Blind!

What is the Backyard Growers Business Center?????

Growing Japanese Maple Trees in Pots

Gardening Tips for August

The Never-Fail Annabelle Hydrangea

Can Planting More Trees Prolong Your Life?

Lightweight Expandable Hose That Never Kinks

Tips for Growing and Producing Flowers on Hydrangea

Scary Mutant Flowers Growing Near Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Syracuse Professor Creates Tree Bearing 40 Types of Fruit

Organic Grasshopper Control

Are Birds Eating All of Your Fruit?

When Tillers Go Bad

Add a Personal Touch to Your Landscape

Growing Potatoes in Many Ways

Controlling Earwigs in Your Garden and Yard

Tips on Pruning Deciduous Plants

Why Some Summer Squash Doesn’t Mature

My Nursery and Donkey Points

Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden

Lawn Watering Tips

Helpful Insects for Your Garden

Summer Pruning Tips

Garden Slugs, Nature’s Slimy Thugs

Hot Summer Lawn Survival Guide

How to Propagate Roses From Seed

Plant Propagation Calendar – What You Should Be Doing Now

10 Plants that Naturally Repel Mosquitoes

How To Grow Blueberry Plants From A Cutting

How to Grow Clematis

How To Build a Potato Box From Pallets

7 Tips for Growing Strawberries in a Container

Trellis Your Green Beans! 7 “How To” tips.

10 Indications Your Soil is Bad and How to Fix It

Damping Off – When Seedlings Fail

Blossom End Rot in Tomatoes

Tips for Growing Lilacs

Dividing Irises

11 Options For Natural Pest Control In Your Garden

Growing Grape Vines

Tips on Planting Grass Seed

My Landscaping and Remodel of the Old House

How to Start a Vegetable Garden

The Canadian Buy/Sell Board

How to Grow Delicious Strawberries

10 Ideas For a Raised Vegetable Garden Bed

Edge a Bed Like a Pro

Tips on Planting Asparagus

Easy Tree Stump Removal

Crazy, Curly, Corkscrew Willow

Some Helpful Tips About Rose Care

Best Pruning Shears

How to Grow a Fruit Tree

Getting Ready For The First Plant Sale

DIY Irrigation System for Lawn, Garden or Greenhouse

Spring, Time to Divide Your Perennials

Homemade Garden Insecticides

How to Grow Horseradish

As You Dig in Your Flower Beds, Watch Out For…

Growing, Buying and Selling Thousands of Plants

Growing Plants in Beds

Planting Knockout Rose Bushes

Which Wheelbarrow Should I Buy?

Unique Vertical Garden Plans

How to Transplant Dahlias

How to Make Your Very Own Pure Maple Syrup

Know How to Identify Poison Ivy Before It’s Too Late!

How to Apply Preemergent Herbicide

To Dig or Not to Dig

DIY Bird House

How to Kill Bermuda Grass Organically

DIY Pallet Trellis

Make a Raised Garden Bed Out of Pallets

How to Grow a Stevia Plant

How to Propagate Mums

Propagation Techniques for Landscape Plants

How to Grow a Citrus Tree from Seed

How to Grow Tomatoes

How to Grow from Cuttings

How to Prune a Hibiscus Plant

Conversations from the Backyard Growers Business Center

How to Grow an Avocado Tree From Seed

Complete Guide to Soil pH Testing

One Finger Pruning of Weeping Cherries, Japanese Maples and other Grafted Plants.

How to Get Rid of Slugs in Your Garden

Growing Grapes

Is Burning Bush Really an Invasive Species?

DIY Sawbuck Bench

Simple Bat House Plans

Plant Sales: Plant Sizes, Plant Prices and the Value of the Plants We Sell.

Preparing for Spring Plant Sales

How to Create a Hydroponic Garden

DIY Raspberry Trellis

How to Heat a Greenhouse Without Electricity

How to Amend Clay Soil

How Much is One Rooted Cutting Worth?

How to Care for a Potted Amaryllis

How to Regrow Vegetables

How to Plant Bare Root Trees

Easy Summertime Plant Propagation Techniques that You Can Do at Home.

Electric Wheelbarrow Review by Mike McGroarty.

How to Start a Bonsai Tree

Building a Warm Shelter for Miniature Donkeys or Goats.

Shipping Plants

How to Grow Roses-Part 3

How to Make Orange and Lemon Marmalade

Propagating Roses from Cuttings

Easy Winter Time Plant Propagation that You Can Do at Home.

How to Grow Roses-Part 2

DIY Self-Watering Planters

How to Grow Roses

How to Propagate Succulents

Mike McGroarty’s “Secret” Bed Building and Potting Soil Recipe.

How to Build a Standing Raised Garden Bed

Garden Tools Care

Christmas Gift Giving Ideas

DIY Plant Cart

How to Plant Rosemary from Cuttings

How to Keep Bees

How To Grow A Mango Tree From a Seed

How to Care for your Holiday Plants

DIY Hoop House

How to Overwinter Tropical Plants

How to Get Rid of Moles

Look who came to visit me today at Mike’s Backyard Nursery!

How to Get Rid of Creeping Charlie

How to Make Homemade Fertilizer

How to Grow an Indoor Herb Garden

How to Trim Grape Vines

DIY Cold Frame

How to Prune Apple Trees

DIY Straw Bale Gardening

How to Can Tomatoes From Your Garden

DIY Squirrel Trap

DIY Fruit Tree Netting

How to Build a Potting Bench Out of Pallets

How to Grow Lavender from Seed

How to Winterize Your Irrigation System

How to Grow Strawberries in a Pot

DIY Chicken Feeder

DIY Chicken Waterer

How to Transplant Daylilies

How to Build a Compost Bin from Pallets

Overwintering Mums Outdoors the Easy Way

How To Prune a Butterfly Bush

How to Make a Flower Bed

Get Free Access to The Backyard Grower’s Business Center

Growing Basil From Seed

How To Prune Shrubs and Other Landscape Plants

25 Full Shade Plants that Will Look Great in Your Yard

Freezing for a Reason- The Ice Bucket Challenge

Backyard Growers Enjoying a Visit to Mike’s Plant Farm in Perry, Ohio

A Step By Step Guide to Overwintering Geraniums

Tent Caterpillar Control

An Important Lesson for All Plant Propagators

The Step by Step Guide to Making a Weed Free Flower or Perennial Garden.

Powdery Mildew on Peonies

Potting or Planting Rooted Cuttings

Rooting Cuttings Successfully in Sand.

Is Roundup Safe to Use or Not?

Japanese Beetle Traps? Do they Work?

Making Cuttings with the Grandkids.

Vinca Flower

How to water small pots and other plants in the yard, garden or nursery.

Growing Plants in Containers (Pots), Controlling Weeds.

Hardwood Cuttings, Softwood Cuttings, Plant Selling Success.

Why Rhododendrons Fail to Grow and Two Super Hardy Rhododendrons for Cold Climates.

How To Keep Cats Out of Garden

Backyard Nursery Tools of the Trade.

Zinnia Plant

Saving Winter Damaged Plants

How Does Garlic Grow?

Patented Plants and Plants with Registered trademarks and the Tale of White Fountain Weeping Cherry Trees.

Grass Seed Germination Time

What to Expect When Buying Plants From an Online Retailer

Rooted Cuttings. How to pot and or plant them, how, when, how often and how much to prune them.

Important Spring Gardening Tips.

How to Grow & Train Flowering Hydrangea Shrubs into Tree Hydrangeas.

Repairing Loose Root Balls on Tree Hydrangea.

Planting Blueberry Bushes

How to Get Rid of Wild Morning Glory.

When To Plant Strawberries

Nursery Supplies for Our Backyard Growers.

How to Grow Tree Seedlings into Beautiful Trees.

What Planting Zone Am I In?

Repairing Your Lawn from Damage Done Over the Winter.

The Secret to Selling Lots and Lots of Plants.

Plant Identification App

DIY Hoop House

When To Prune Japanese Maple Trees

Hydrangea Endless Summer

23 Landscaping Ideas with Photos.

What Kills Poison Ivy?

Transplanting Japanese Maple Trees in 3 Easy Steps

Growing Pink Dogwood from Seed.

Flat Head Spray Nozzles for Plant Propagation.

How to Root Purple Sandcherry, prunus cistena from Hardwood Cuttings.

Which Plants Are The Most Deer Resistant?

Top Secret Irrigation Tips for Your Yard.

Mike and Duston McGroarty are Giving Away the Farm!

A Tip for Selling the Plants that You Grow.

Lawn Installation. Hand Seeding, Hydro Seeding or Sod? Which is better?

Mike and Duston McGroarty Offer Live Training for Small Business Owners.

Winter Time Plant Propagation Techniques.

Everything You Know about Composting is Wrong???

A 15th Anniversary and a 58th Birthday

Paying off all of your debts is a life changing, liberating experience.

Homemade Mobile Potting Bench. It has Removable Wheels!

How to Propagate Grapes from Hardwood Cuttings.

How to Make Homemade Plant Propagation Flats.

Protecting Your Plants from Mice and other Rodents During Winter.

How to Root Hundreds if not Thousands of Cuttings at One Time.

Gardening Zone Maps for the United States and Canada.

Winter Tree and Shrub Transplanting Tips and Why Now is the Ideal Time .

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Mike’s Backyard Nursery.

The Consumers Guide to Caring for and Planting a Live Balled in Burlap Christmas Tree.

8 Plants With Spectacular Fall Colors

Fertilizer Applicator for Fertilizing Containers, Nursery Pots and Plants in the Landscape

Mike and Pam McGroarty with their Miniature Donkeys Finnegan and Fergus.

Over Wintering, Protecting Plants for Winter

$4.97 Plastic Nursery Pots, also called Nursery Containers.

How to Grow and Trim Japanese Maples.

How to Grow Roses from Cuttings.

How I Advertise My Plants for Sale

Why do I need raised beds? Do I need raised beds?

B&B, Balled in Burlap, Tree Digging Tips.

Growing, Propagating and Selling Canadian Hemlock Tsuga canadensis.

Miniature Donkeys Getting all Dressed Up

How I Overwinter My Cuttings

This is the Way that Crazy People Prune Plants.

How To Attract Hummingbirds

How to Keep Squirrels Away

How to Attract Deer

Turning Sticks into Money.

How to Grow Hops at Home

Bamboo Plant Care for Beginners

How to Control Mosquitoes

Adding A New Cutting Bed

How to Make a Rain Barrel

2013 Shindig at Mike’s Plant Farm in Perry, Ohio

Using the Mantis Tiller to Prepare a Landscape Planting Bed.

Vertical Gardening for Beginners

The One Plant that Could Change Your Life Forever.

5 Unique Ways to Build Raised Garden Beds

Planting By The Moon

10 Ways to Be More Self Reliant

How to Build a Bat House

How to Ship Plants by U.S. Mail, UPS or Fed Ex.

Top 20 Homeschooling Blogs Of 2013

5 Homemade Mosquito Repellents

How To Attract Bees

How to Make Maple Syrup

15 Mouth-Watering Edible Weeds

Pruning Small Plants as You Grow them to Make them Nice and Full, not Lanky.

5 Uses For Chickens In the Garden

How to Grow Herbs at Home

21 Container Vegetable Gardening Tips

My Very First Customer Placed a $500.00 Order over the Phone!

How to Get Rid of and or Control Weeds.

17 Must Have Gardening Apps

Plants in Pots Verses Plants in Beds or in the Field.

How to Plant Raspberries

How to Plant Roses

How to Turn $50 into $1,000 Growing Ornamental Grasses.

Nikko Blue Hydrangea. Growing, Propagating and Making them Bloom.

Mike McGroarty Gets Slammed by a Subscriber.

9 Tips for Breeding Goats

How Can You Start a Backyard Nursery with this Kind of Help?

7 Organic Homemade Insecticides

Building Shelter for Miniature Donkeys or Goats.

How to Control Creeping Charlie

How to Care for Goats

8 Ways to Purify Water at Home

9 Tips for Rainwater Collection

Miniature Donkeys at Mike’s Plant Farm in Perry, Ohio

How to Make Wine at Home

Can You Live Off the Land?

Top 17 Websites for Raising Chickens 2013

7 Ideas for Homemade Compost Bins

The Donkey House is done!

Saving Seeds: A Beginner’s Guide

How I Shade My Cuttings

11 Tips for Growing Pumpkins

7 Reasons Why You Should Get a Goat

Beni Shichihenge Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum ‘Beni Shichihenge’

Citronelle Coral Bells, Heuchera villosa ‘Citronelle’

I Bought 1,300 More Plants and Fixed Up Our Sales Area

7 Ideas for More Energy Efficient Homes

Stay at Home, Home Schooling Mom, Loves Growing Plants at Home for Extra Income.

9 Things to Consider Before Moving to the Country

How To Keep Bees: A Beginner’s Guide

Why doesn’t my Chinese Dogwood Tree, Cornus kousa bloom or flower?

How to Propagate and Grow ‘Milky Way’ Chinese Dogwood Trees, Cornus kousa

Top 20 Gardening Blogs 2013

Potting Up Our Rooted Cuttings

How to Sell Plants Online

How do you propagate Dianthus, Carnation or Sweet William, sometimes known as Pink?

Mulching Our Japanese Maple Beds

Wheelbarrow Review, Which Wheelbarrow Should You or I Buy?

How to Sell the Plants that You Grow.

Growing, Propagating and Caring for Exbury Deciduous Azaleas.

Backyard Landscape Design Ideas, what plants to use where.

Getting Ready for the Plant Sale

Landscaping Ideas. What Plant Goes Where in the Landscape?

Colorful and Flowering Plants to Brighten Up Your Yard in the Early Spring

Mondays with Mike McGroarty at Mike’s Plant Farm, 4850 North Ridge Road, Perry, Ohio 44081

We Landscaped the Old House

How to Make Your Own Sprinklers on Stand Pipes.

Snow Damaged, Hoop House, Greenhouse, High Tunnel.

Rooted Cuttings Experiment and More

How can I use free wood chips in my garden?

How to Propagate Fragrant Viburnum.

Went Whacko at the Nursery Auction

Mike McGroarty’s Backyard Cash Machine Report for only Seven Dollars.

Easy Composting Ideas and Receipes.

Harry Lauder Walking Stick

How to Ruin a Japanese Maple Tree.

Should I Remove the Burlap Before Planting My Tree?

Buying Plants at Wholesale Prices.

Spring Pruning Tips. Should I Prune Now?

Preventing a Back Injury While Gardening.

Are Hybrid Plants Better?

Heirloom Seeds, are they Really Better?

How to Make 65¢ per Square Inch in Your Backyard.

Using Predator Pee (Urine) to Keep Unwanted Animals Out of Your Gardens.

Protecting Plants from Frost

Fruit Trees that Fail to Make Fruit.

How to Trim Fruit Trees

Saving Snow Damaged Japanese Maples and other trees and shrubs.

Grafting Japanese Maple Trees Made Easy!

Top 10 Gardening Tools

10 Reasons Not To Be Afraid Of Garden Spiders

Plant Tying Techniques.

The Easy Digger

Plant Propagation via Tissue Culture

Japanese Maples and Sex

How to Graft Japanese Maple Trees.

A Nifty Tool: The Gama Hoe

Mike McGroarty’s Savings Account

Amending Garden Soil

Pink Dogwood Trees $3.50 each.

Small Business Training.

The Pre-Spring Gardening Checklist.

Grow Your Own Fruit Trees and other Fruit Bearing Plants.

How To Get Paid For Selling Sticks

How To Plant a Live Christmas Tree

How To Build a Plant Propagation Box

Selecting and Caring for a Live Christmas Tree.

Mike McGroarty’s Dirt Farmer Fudge

How To Dig and Plant a Live Christmas Tree

Pruning Purple Sand Cherry

How To Tie a Slipknot

How to Plant in Clay Soil

Successful Backyard Nursery in Florida

Butterfly Japanese Maple

Homemade Deer Repellent

Lion’s Head Japanese Maple

Teaching a Lavender Twist Redbud Tree how to be a Tree

How to Prune Roses for Winter

Loading up the Seats of the Ferris Wheel

My Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick is Dying

Training Lavender Twist Redbud

Giving Yourself Permission to Fail

Propagating Potentilla from Cuttings

Starting a Plant Business

Propagation From Cuttings

How to Get Rid of Poison Ivy

Where to Buy Plants Online (…at Rock-Bottom Prices!)

How to Start a Nursery

Why do plants have to be inspected?

Where to Recycle Plastic Nursery Containers and or Pots

‘Fireworks’ Fountain Grass

Shindig at Mike’s Plant Farm!

Free Backyard Growing System

Mike McGroarty on the Economy.

How to Repair a Drought Damaged Lawn

How to Plant Grass Seed

Techny Arborvitae

What is Mike McGroarty Reading?

What has Pam been up to?

Emerald Green Arborvitae

The Joy of Being a Gardener.

Canadian Hemlock, Tsuga canadensis

Black Mondo Grass

Variegated Liriope

Hydrangea Pruning Made Easy

Weed Control Facts

Weed Barrier Fabric or Weed Barrier Cloth? Does it work?

What are we doing to our trees?

Volcano Mulching Kills Trees

Three Generations of McGroarty Nurserymen

Weeping Nootka Cypress

Canadian Growers Needed.

Mulch Sets House on Fire

Aluminun Plant Tags that Don’t Fade

The Best Topsoil for You

Re-Landscape Your House

Java Red Weigela

Clam Shell Air Propagator

Heuchera-Coral Bells

A Tribute to Small Business Owners Across America and Beyond.

Tree Stump Removal Tools

Golden Curls Willow

Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud Tree

Are your plants safe? Is it too warm too soon.

Zoysia Grass. Is it a good thing or not?

What mulch is best?

How to Grow Roses from Cuttings

Transplanting Tips

Pruning Rose of Sharon

How To Trim Forsythia

Pruning Rhododendrons

Transplanting Tips

How To Divide Ornamental Grasses

How To Divide Hostas

How To Divide Daylilies

I Love My Mantis Tiller!

Training Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick To Grow Properly

Training Japanese Maples To Grow Properly

Plans For A Potting Bench

Air Propagating

How to Prune a Japanese Maple Tree

When to Prune Hydrangeas

How To Edge A Bed

“Grammaw’s” Baked Bean Recipe

The Golden Curls Weeping Willow

How To Control Slugs

How To Get Rid of Japanese Beetles

Mike’s New Nursery… From The Beginning!

Digging My Well… My Plants Need Water!

Suckers On Grafted Plants!

A Simple Way To Root Plants From Cuttings

Trim Your Bushes WAY Back… Part 2

Meet A Few Backyard Growers!

Is A Virtual Nursery Really Possible?

Landscape Design Ideas

Forsythia Propagation

Pruning Japanese Maple Trees

How To Plant A Ball and Burlap Tree

How To Ball and Burlap Dig A Tree

Grower’s Board

A Successful 20 Year Old

Awesome!

Potting Barn Disguised As An Outhouse

How To Prune An Ornamental Tree

Me, the Grandkids, and the Train!

Purple Sandcherry-Pruning and Propagating

Messages like this Bring Tears to My Eyes.

Really Nice Japanese Maples – Crash Course On Grafting and Budding

Heeling In Plants

Tips On Planting Bulbs

Have You Ever Seen An Action Hoe?

Grow Your Own Grape Plants

Do Your Plants Have Spider Mites?

Enhance Your Landscape With Roses

Notes from our Branson Vacation

Quick Easy Technique To Fix Areas In Your Grass

Wedding Photos

Trim Your Burning Bush WAY BACK!!

Pittsburgh Steelers Fans

Hydrangeas: When do I prune them? Why didn’t they flower?

How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles and Grubs in Your Lawn

Pruning Rose Bushes

The Amazing Multiplication Effect & How To Heal In Your Plants

Tree Pruning Tips and My 5-Year Experiment

How To Identify Poison Ivy

Mantis Tiller Review

37 Ways to Know You’re Addicted to Gardening

Check Out My Billy Goat Outback Brush Cutter!

Tree Stump Removal Instructions

Do You Have Shotgun Fungus?

It’s time to Make Baby Plants! Make Baby Plants! Make Baby Plants!

Landscape Design Tips

Wheelbarrow Tips & Tricks

Pruning Azalea Bushes

Growing Japanese Maples

Posts from Japanese Maple Lovers

How to Graft Japanese Maple Trees

Growing Japanese Maples in Zone 4 or Lower

Growing Japanese Maples In Hot Climates

Braiding Japanese Maple Trees

Orange Japanese Maple

Japanese Maple Leaf

Japanese Maple ‘Waterfall’

Japanese Maples: Learn The Varieties

Weeping Japanese Maple

Acer Palmatum Osakazuki

One Finger Pruning

Wanted! People who would like to Grow Japanese Maples at Home.

Ryusen Japanese Maple

Japanese Maple Birthday Cake

Red Dragon Japanese Maple

Peaches and Cream Japanese Maple

Oshio Beni Japanese Maple

Orido Nishiki Japanese Maple

Japanese Maple ‘Orangeola’

Japanese Maple Orange Dream

Japanese Maple Moonfire

A Small Japanese Maple Garden

Japanese Maple Lion’s Head

Japanese Maple Lion Heart

Japanese Maple Lemon Lime Lace

Japanese Maple Kotohime

Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Inaba Shidare’

Higasayama Japanese Maple

Hefner’s Red Japanese Maple

Green Cascade Japanese Maple

How to Graft Japanese Maples

What is a Japanese Maple Scion or Scions?

Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Goshiki Shidare’

Golden Full Moon Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Garnet’ Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Filigree Lace’

Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Ever Red’

Acer palmatum ‘Corallinum’

Acer palmatum Butterfly

Acer palmatum Bloodgood

Acer palmatum Asahi Zuru

Japanese Maple Planting Tips

Transplanting a Japanese Maple

Fertilizing Japanese Maples

Testing Japanese Maple Seeds for Viability

Japanese Maple Diseases

Providing Winter Protection for Japanese Maples

Japanese Maple Winter Damage

Is My Japanese Maple Dying?

Pruning or Trimming Japanese Maples

Growing Japanese Maples from Seed.

Crimson Queen Japanese Maple

Japanese Red Maple Tree

Japanese Maple Seedlings-Acer palmatum or Acer palmatum atropurpureum

Mike’s Japanese Maple Collection

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Raspberry Plants

Homemade Plant Propagation System

Growing Japanese Red Maple Seedlings

Free Potting Bench Plans

How to Ball and Burlap Dig a Plant

Pictures of Landscape Designs 

Layering

Division

Growing Plants from Seed

Softwood Cuttings of Deciduous Plants

Hardwood Cuttings of Deciduous Plants

Softwood Cuttings of Evergreens

Hardwood Cuttings of Evergreens

Using Bottom Heat to Enhance Your Plant Propagation Efforts

The Magic of Intermittent Mist

Grafting Fruit Trees and Ornamental Plants

Budding Fruit Trees and Ornamental Plants

How to Build a Mini Hoop House for Winter Protection

Tree Stump Removal Instructions

Preparing Raised Planting Beds

Discount Nursery Plants

Free Gardening Articles You Can Use

Composting the Easy Way

$1,148. in One Day Working With Plants?  You Bet!

How to Get Rid of Standing Water in Your Yard

Planting and Caring for Flower Bulbs

Tree Pruning Tips

Starting a Plant Nursery

Caring for and Planting a Balled in Burlap Christmas Tree

Transplanting Tips

Weed Control Facts, Winning the Battle of the Weeds

Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas

Pruning Weeping Cherry Trees and other Grafted and Budded Plants

How to Train Beautiful Flowering Shrubs into Unique Ornamental Trees

How to Create More Blooms on Your Flowering Trees and Shrubs

How to Grow Beautiful Ornamental, and Fruit Trees Using the Propagation Technique Known as Budding.

How to Grow Flowering Dogwoods from Seed

How to Grow Ornamental Grasses

How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed

Easy Fall Propagation Techniques

How to Make Money Growing Rooted Cuttings

How to Make Money at Home Growing Small Plants

The Secret of Rooting Cuttings

Lawn Care Tips

Tips for Preparing a Planting Bed

Spring Planting Tips

Summer Gardening Tips

Beware of Toxic Mulch

Mulch Your Spring Flower Bulbs in the Fall for a Beautiful Spring Display

How to Make a Weed Dabber

How to Build a Simple Potting Bench

How to Grow Wildflowers

Arborvitae

Azalea

Barberry

Boxwood

Burning Bush

Japanese Red Maple Trees

Weeping Pussy Willow Trees

Make Money at Home Growing Small Landscape Plants on 1/20 Acre or Less.

Who is Mike McGroarty

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How to Find the Propagation Technique that is Right for Your Plant

Mike’s Favorite Plants

Caring for Your Plants Once You have them Rooted

Plant Propagation by Division

Plant Propagation by Layering

Propagating Softwood Cuttings of Deciduous Plants

Plant Propagation of Softwood Cuttings of Evergreens

Plant Propagation of Hardwood Cuttings of Deciduous Plants

Plant Propagation of Hardwood Cuttings of Evergreens

Using Bottom Heat to Propagate Your Favorite Plants

Plant Propagation from Seed

Rose Plant Propagation

Propagation Using Intermittent Mist to Root Your Cuttings Quickly

Propagating Techniques for Every Month of the Year

Propagation of Japanese Maples and Flowering Dogwoods from Seed

Using the Heat Generated by Your Septic Tank to Enhance Your Propagating

How to Identify and Control Insects and Disease pests on Your Plants

How to Build a Backyard Greenhouse from Scratch

How to Keep Moles, Skunks, and Other Critters from Digging up Your Lawn

How to Renovate Your Lawn without Digging it up.

How to Attract Humming Birds to Your Yard

How to Keep Weeds out of Your Gardens

Using Ground Covers for Weed Control

How to Keep Deer and Rabbits from Ruining Your Trees and Shrubs

Pruning Tips

Growing and Caring for Apple Trees

Composting Your Way to Beautiful Gardens

Attracting Bats to Your Garden for Insect Control

Tips on Transplanting Trees and Shrubs

How to Build a Backyard Waterfall, Pond, and Brick Patio

Dealing with Poison Ivy in Your Gardens

How to do Landscape Lighting the Right Way

How to Build a Simple Hoop House

How to Dig a Plant Balled in Burlap

Plant Propagation the Basics

Ingredients for potting soil

Personal stuff about Mike

Free Content for Your Website or Newsletter

My Battle with Obesity

This is Why I Love Niagara Falls

Testimonials

Heuchera

Pruning Deciduous Plants

Mike McGroarty’s Japanese Maple Collection

When to Prune Trees and Shrubs

Pest Control for Apple Trees and other Apple Tree Facts

Grape Vine Pruning

Growing Great Garlic

How to Grow Asparagus

A Unique Vegetable Garden Idea

Planting and Growing Peonies

Ideas for a Theme Garden

Changing Hydrangea Flower Color and Hydrangea Care

Growing and Drying Ornamental Gourds

Propagating and Caring for Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick

Organic Grasshopper Control

Beneficial Garden Insects

How Black Walnut Trees Can Affect Your Plants

Dividing Irises to Promote more Blooms

How to Control Earwigs in Your Yard and Garden

How to Repel Cats from Your Garden

Tips for Handicapped and Elderly-Accessible Gardening

A Common Problem when Growing Squash

How to Grow Blueberries

Natural Homemade Insecticides for the Garden

Blossom End Rot and other Tomato Problems

Preventing Damage from Garden Slugs

Dividing Daylilies

Cover Crops

Neem Oil

How to Grow Blackberries

Tips for Planting Spring Bulbs

Seed Saving Tips

BT an Organic Insecticide

Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden

Controlling Weeds in the Vegetable Garden

How to Deal with Annoying Fungus Gnats

Planting Potatoes in the Garden

Making Compost

Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud Tree

How to Get Rid of Pesky Armadillos

Growing Onions in the Garden

Dividing and Transplanting Perennials

Improve Your Garden Soil with Greensand

Vermicomposting, You Can Be a Worm Farmer

Protecting Plants with Floating Row Covers

Landscaping to Create a Bird Habitat

Pre Winter Lawn Repair Tips

How to Make a Poinsettia Flower Again

Rose Propagation from Seeds

Planning a Vegetable Garden

Gardening in a Jar, How to Grow Sprouts

How to Grow Strawberries

Deer Resistant Plants

Dirt Farmer Fudge

Tips for Growing Sweet Corn

Rose Growing Tips

Growing Redbud Trees from Seed

Tips for Moving a Heavy Rock

Winterberry Holly

Growing Hops in the Backyard

What is a Backyard Grower?

What is a Gardening Shindig?

How to Care for a Potted Amaryllis

Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South

How to Grow Horseradish and Make Your Own Spicy Condiment

When to Plant Garden Seeds

An Easy Method of Sowing Seeds

Growing Sweet Potatoes at Home

Seedlings Die from Damping Off Disease

Tips for Growing Lilacs

Tips for Creating a Butterfly Garden

Moon Gardening-Fact or Fiction?

How to Start a Vegetable Garden

Many Uses for Bamboo Poles in Your Garden

Backyard Nursery Owners Speak Out about
Mike McGroarty’s Backyard Growing System!

My Lifetime Love Affair with Plants

Squirrel Problems

How to Grow Herbs

Caring for Container Plants

Gardening Affiliate Program

Growing Hostas

Dealing With Late Blight In The Garden

How To Control and Kill Creeping Charlie In Your Lawn

Your Burning Bush Won’t Turn Red?

Choosing The Best Garden Hose

Choosing A Garden Hoe

Tips For Creating A New Garden Bed

Extend Your Harvest With A Fall Vegetable Garden

Tips For Growing Tomatoes In Your Garden

How To Get Rid of Wild Garlic or Wild Onions

Tips For Growing Japanese Maples

Seed Saving

Ornamental Grass Tips

Organic Pest Control For The Garden

Caring For And Planting Live Christmas Trees

Tips For Growing Rhubarb

Forcing Bulbs

Caring For Indoor Plants While You’re On Vacation

Moon Gardening

Homemade Gifts From Your Garden

Organic Fertilizer Options

Mike’s Nursery

Free Plants

How To Get Rid of a Skunk

How To Build A Bat House

When and How to Prune Hydrangeas

Composting the Easy Way

Tree Pruning TipsPruning Weeping Cherry Trees and other Grafted and Budded Plants
Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas

How to Train Beautiful Flowering Shrubs into Unique Ornamental Trees

Growing and Caring For Hydrangeas

Controlling the Color of Hydrangea Blooms

How to Grow Ornamental Grasses

Lawn Care Tips

How to Create More Blooms on Your Flowering Trees and Shrubs

Transplanting Tips

How to Get Rid of Standing
Water in Your Yard

Beware of Toxic MuchSpring Planting Tips

Summer Gardening Tips

Caring for and Planting
a Balled in Burlap Christmas Tree

Tips For Preparing a Planting Bed

Getting the Best Price for Your Home Includes Landscaping for Curb Appeal

Black Walnut Tree Toxicity

How to Read a Seed Catalog

How to Make $1,148. in
One Day Working with Plants
How to Make Money at Home Growing Small Plants

How to Make Money Growing Rooted Cuttings, and Selling Them

Controlling Insects Organically

Planting and Caring for
Flower Bulbs

Mulch Your Spring Flower Bulbs in the Fall For A Beautiful Spring DisplayHow to Grow Wild Flowers

How to Create a Butterfly Garden

How to Grow Beautiful Ornamental, and Fruit Trees Using the Propagation Technique Known as Budding

How to Grow Japanese Red Maples

How to Build a Simple Potting Bench

How to Grow Flowering Dogwoods from Seed

Easy Fall Propagation Techniques

The Secret of Rooting Cuttings

Saving Seeds From Your Garden

Weed Control Facts, Winning the Battle of the Weeds

How to Make a Weed Dabber

Organic Weed Control Using Corn

Planting Tomatoes in Your Garden

Which of the Hundreds of Tomato Varieties Should I Plant

Let’s Plant Potatoes in the Garden

Garden Housekeeping

Prune and Trellis Your Tomato Plants To Achieve Higher Yields

How to Build A Trellis For Your Grape Vines

How Should I Prune My Crepe Myrtle?

Seeds: 101

Hybrid: The Bad Seed

How To Dry Herbs

How To Make A Topiary

Planting A Vertical Garden

What To Plant To Attract Deer

What In the World Is Lasagna Gardening?

Random, Useful Gardening Tips

 How To Grow Blueberry Plants From Cuttings

Designing A Kid Friendly Garden

How To Care For Your Holiday Plants

Purple Leaf Sand Cherry

Vegetables For Kids

Planting Nasturtium For Organic Pest Control

Cedar Apple Rust

Powdery Mildew On Roses

Peach Tree Borer and Other Peach Pests