Transplanting a Japanese maple is not difficult, but there are a few key things to know to prevent doing serious harm to your tree. The two most important factors in successfully transplanting Japanese maple trees are depth and timing. If you can at all help it, only dig your Japanese maple when it is dormant…. Click here to read more…
Growing Pink Dogwood from Seed.
Growing Pink Dogwood Trees from Seed. Is it easy? Is it even possible? Can you really grow Pink Dogwood trees from seed? Hmmmmmmmm. Difficult questions for sure. Here’s the deal, I am going to give it to you straight and some are not going to like what I have to say. I don’t care. I… Click here to read more…
Flat Head Spray Nozzles for Plant Propagation.
We use these flat head spray nozzles that are specially designed for outdoor use. They deliver a pattern of water that is almost perfectly horizontal. The water is atomized, but only to a point. What makes these nozzles unique is that the droplets of water are tiny, yet just large enough to not be easily… Click here to read more…
How to Root Purple Sandcherry, prunus cistena from Hardwood Cuttings.
Purple Flowering Sandcherry, prunus cistena, is an extremely popular flowering shrub. Covered with tiny pinkish white blooms in the spring and deep purple leaves all summer long make this an all time favorite shrub. But unlike many flowering flowering shrubs, this one is a bit tricky to propagate from softwood cuttings. The softwood cuttings fail… Click here to read more…
Which Plants Are The Most Deer Resistant?
Many of us spend a great deal of time working in our gardens and perfecting our landscaping. We spend hours on end planting, trimming and watering. We take pride in our hard work. We literally reap the fruits (and flowers) of our labor. Waking up one morning to find that hungry deer have ravaged our… Click here to read more…
Top Secret Irrigation Tips for Your Yard.
This isn’t really top secret stuff about setting up simple irrigation for your gardens and yard area, but they might as well be, because few people ever really think about this and they often make the most basic mistakes when buying hoses, sprinklers etc. If you want to see these Wiz Head Sprinklers in action,… Click here to read more…
Mike and Duston McGroarty are Giving Away the Farm!
I think we have completely lost our minds! We set out to help our Backyard Growers discover new and exciting ways to sell more plants. The idea was to do eight simple weekly webinars where we would share our expertise in the area of marketing and Internet marketing to help our members sell more of… Click here to read more…
A Tip for Selling the Plants that You Grow.
People often ask me; “Mike, how can you sell plants that don’t even have leaves on them? They look dead.” And the answer is, we use point of sale signs, often called bench cards. These point of sale signs really help the customer make buying decisions. They want to know what the plant looks like… Click here to read more…
Lawn Installation. Hand Seeding, Hydro Seeding or Sod? Which is better?
Mike’s Plant Farm 4850 North Ridge Road Perry, Ohio 44081 It doesn’t matter whether you are installing a new lawn at a new house, replacing an old lawn at an existing home, or rejuvenating the lawn that you have, you have options of how the grass seed is applied or whether or not it makes… Click here to read more…
Mike and Duston McGroarty Offer Live Training for Small Business Owners.
Duston and I are doing 8 weeks of live training for Small Business Owners. This training will cover all aspects of Internet Marketing as well as a Wealth of Information about Marketing and Promoting a Small Business, both Offline and Online. Recently we did a one hour, forty minute live training event and so far… Click here to read more…
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