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Pennsylvania Backyard Nurseries

Updated : January 16, 2015

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Pennsylvania Backyard Nurseries Cranesville, PA Roger’s Backyard Nursery — We are a small licensed and inspected backyard nursery that propagates and grows perennials and shrubs for your home landscape. We are located in Cranesville, Pennsylvania. We are in the southwestern corner of Erie County, just a little north of the Crawford County line. We are… Click here to read more…

Ohio Backyard Nurseries

Updated : April 20, 2017

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Ohio Backyard Nurseries Williamsburg, Ohio -Denise’s Garden $4.97 Plants Everyday! Thousands of plants! Primrose, Agastache, Veronica, Bellflowers, Cardinal Flower, Azaleas, Shasta Daisies, Bee Balm, Columbine, Daylilies, Coral Bells, Toadlilies, Lenton Rose, Astilbe, Butterfly Bushes, Chinese Lanterns, Maltese Cross, Hollyhocks, Salvia, Hydrangeas, Weigelas, Forsythia, Coneflowers, ForgetMe Not, Sea Thrift, Pinks, Phlox, Foxglove, Poppy, Coreopsis, Dwarf Red… Click here to read more…

Missouri Backyard Nurseries

Updated : February 17, 2015

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Missouri Backyard Nurseries Barnett – Versailles, Missouri       $5.97 Plant Sale! Plants for $5.97 in trade gal. size. Fruiting Plants:  Blueberries, Thornless Blackberries, Raspberries, Grapes, Strawberries, Rhubarb, Gooseberries, Asparagus Shrubs: Barberries, Spirea, Weigela, Hydrangea, Azalea, Rose of Sharon, Crape Myrtle, Holly, Burning Bush, Summer Sweet (Clethra), Honeysuckle, Junipers, Arborvitae, Coneflowers, Boxwood, Cypress, Forsythia, Cotoneaster, Potentilla, Purple… Click here to read more…

Washington State Backyard Nurseries

Updated : October 3, 2018

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Washington State Backyard Nurseries Issaquah, Washington The Daily Plant-It  Backyard Nursery $5.97 THOUSANDS OF PLANTS, ONE LOW PRICE $5.97 Japanese Red Maples and Kousa Chinese Dogwoods – Japanese, Siberian, and Pacific Coast Irises – Ornamental Grasses – Hostas and Hydrangeas –Daylilies and Dogwoods – Hydrangeas and Heuchera – Euphorbia and Euonymus – Sedum and Spirea… Click here to read more…

Michigan Backyard Nurseries

Updated : January 7, 2015

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Michigan Backyard Nurseries Galien, Michigan-Growing Obsessions Wholesale Nursery $4.97 Plants Must be Sold! We go nuts for our plants, and hope you will, too.  We are a family owned, mostly organic Nursery, with quick shipping to all the US except the restricted western states, and low minimum orders.   Our great cuttings and liners include… Click here to read more…

Indiana Backyard Nurseries

Updated : May 20, 2015

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Indiana Backyard Nurseries Bloomington, Indiana Johnson’s Nursery 9100 West State Rd. 45 Bloomington, Indiana 47403 Edita Gabuat  phone: 812 345 9276 Noblesville, Indiana 46062 $4.97 Plant Sale!   Now Is The Time To Plant   Every Plant Will Be Sold at Only $4.97   We are a local nursery with a large number of plants to fit all… Click here to read more…

Arkansas Backyard Nurseries

Updated : January 12, 2015

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Arkansas Backyard Nurseries Becky’s Flower Farm -Lincoln, Arkansas Welcome to our Farm Welcome to Becky’s Flower Farm.  We are a small family owned and operated backyard nursery located in Northwest Arkansas, surrounded by the Ozark Mountains.  Our nursery is certified and inspected –  offering wholesale and retail plants and liners with Mail Order service available…. Click here to read more…

Transplanting Tips

Updated : October 18, 2019

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I originally wrote these transplanting tips for our Backyard Growers but it really is important. I actually wrote this in response to another thread about Japanese Maples but I want it to be a stand-alone thread because really is THAT important. Timing   timing   timing   timing   timing. Make sure you are doing the right thing at… Click here to read more…

How to Prune a Japanese Maple Tree

Updated : June 17, 2024

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Let’s talk about when you should prune your Japanese Maple tree.  The ideal time to prune a Japanese Maple tree is as soon as it needs pruning, if you don’t, they get straggly and not that attractive. STEP ONE: Disinfect your tools so you don’t spread disease. Because this is such a small tree, hand… Click here to read more…

When to Prune Hydrangeas

Updated : May 20, 2015

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Endless Summer Hydrangea.

When and how to prune hydrangeas like Endless Summer and other varieties seems to be one of the most confusing issues that gardeners face.  Why is that?  Conflicting information that’s what the problem is.  So in just a moment here I am going to forever set the record straight for you.  But first, let’s have… Click here to read more…

A Successful 20 Year Old

Updated : June 17, 2024

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How many 20-year-olds that you know can make a claim like this: A note from one of my customers.  She posted this for all of the new members of The Backyard Grower’s Business Center to see… “Mike you met Rachel, year before last, she is getting it, at least on a small scale, thinking bigger,… Click here to read more…

Me, the Grandkids, and the Train!

Updated : November 25, 2014

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I thought it would be really cool to buy a train for our house. I know the boys love trains, and I saw those really big G scale trains when we were on vacation. So I ordered the train, ordered extra track and set it all up. The boys, 6, 4 and 8 months love… Click here to read more…

Messages like this Bring Tears to My Eyes.

Updated : June 17, 2024

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I logged onto the Backyard Growers Message Board last night and read this message. It brought tears to my eyes. We bought Mike’s Backyard Growing System in March 2008! Our restaurant had just closed down! We had lost everything we had worked for the last 12 years and my husband was planning to move to… Click here to read more…

Notes from our Branson Vacation

Updated : November 20, 2014

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Hello from Branson, Missouri! Pam and I are currently vacationing here in Branson.  Branson is an amazing place to visit.  We first discovered Branson back in 1996.  I surprised Pam with a trip for our 20th wedding anniversary and we’ve been coming here ever since. Branson is America!  Nestled in the heart of the Ozark… Click here to read more…

Pittsburgh Steelers Fans

Updated : November 25, 2014

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I know that I’ve got a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers Fans on my mailing list, and I’ve got a message for you. I just spent the weekend in your fair city, and I would like to tell you how much I enjoyed myself and how impressed I was with some of the things I saw… Click here to read more…

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

Updated : July 28, 2020

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First, it’s important to make the connection that the white grubs in your lawn will hatch into Japanese Beetles and if you have Japanese Beetles they will lay eggs in your lawn that turn into white grubs. Japanese Beetles can severely damage your roses and other plants in your landscape because they feed on the… Click here to read more…

The Amazing Multiplication Effect & How To Heal In Your Plants

Updated : November 25, 2014

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Tree Pruning Tips and My 5-Year Experiment

Updated : September 22, 2015

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It’s been over five years since we originally did this video so it’s time for an update and a follow up to how this pruning job worked out.  I went back out to this tree and took some still photos that you will see here.  When we posted this video we received a lot of… Click here to read more…

How To Identify Poison Ivy

Updated : July 28, 2017

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Wanted: People Who Want to Get Paid to Grow Plants from Home! I hope you enjoy and learn from my Poison Ivy Video.  My new property has more than it’s fair share of Poison Ivy and I am highly allergic.  This is going to be a challenge, but I’m not one to be deterred easily… Click here to read more…

Mantis Tiller Review

Updated : July 19, 2019

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Well… I could have chosen an easier pile of material to show off my Mantis Rototiller with, but instead, I decided to tackle a compost pile that is covered with small tree branches! But that’s what I had available so I ran with it. Here are a few other videos I’ve made using the Mantis… Click here to read more…

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