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In this article I want to talk about the simplicity of growing, propagating, dividing and selling Hosta varieties from home. There is an insane amount of different kinds of Hosta varieties and they are a great item to grow and sell because people love Hosta, they do well in shady situations and there are a… Click here to read more…
Don’t get all worked up over the quality of this image, I clipped it from the video that is posted below. In short, Roger Higgins from Roger’s Backyard Nursery in Cranesville, Pa makes these homemade plant tags out of used Pepsi cans. I often use Aluminum Plant Tags in my nursery because they are very… Click here to read more…
Meet Roger Higgins from Roger’s Backyard Nursery in Cranesville, Pa. Every one of those plastic jugs next to Roger contains seeds. Some are perennial seeds, some might be Dogwood Seeds, maybe some Japanese maple seeds. Some of the jugs are milk jugs, the bigger jugs are kitty litter jugs. If you look closely Roger has… Click here to read more…
Dwarf Alberta Spruce is an awesome little evergreen that stays small and only grows a few inches per year. Yes, they can get five or six feet tall, but it takes a long time and with one annual pruning you can keep them to the size you want. This is plant that I have been… Click here to read more…
Actually I first started growing plants back in 1980 but I had to quit. I tell that story here. Then we bought a house in 1988 and in 1989 I started growing in the backyard at that house. And that’s really where my whole backyard nursery concept came from. Our lot was 1/2 acre and… Click here to read more…
Many landscape plants can be grown from seed, but with so many different plants it is much quicker and easier to propagate them from cuttings than it is to grow them from seed. Seedlings are so tiny and delicate when they first germinate that they require much more care than a cutting. Seed propagation can… Click here to read more…
Mike’s Plant Farm 4850 North Ridge Road, Perry, Ohio 44081 2,463 plants must be sold this weekend, only $5.97 each while they last! Here we go! This is Whack-a-Doodle Crazy selling plants at such a low price but we’ve got plants everywhere and I do mean everywhere! I have to reduce the number of plants… Click here to read more…
It has been such a mild summer here, a bit rainy though. I dread thinking about the winter coming, but having lived in Ohio all of my life, it is just to be expected. While the weather is still nice, you should start working on your cold frames to overwinter your plants. If you already… Click here to read more…
If you are starting your backyard nursery in August, there are a number of things you should be concentrating on. In the next 8 to 12 weeks there will be some deals on rooted cuttings and liners on the Backyard Growers Business Center Buy/Sell board. If you buy them now and just plant them in… Click here to read more…
Almost all people who want to start their own Backyard Nursery start out with liners they purchase from other growers. Every day in the Backyard Growers Business Center, folks are buying and selling all sizes of plants; unrooted cuttings, rooted cuttings, liners, stock plants and even seeds! Liners will typically range in size from a… Click here to read more…
