If you’re looking for a plant that not only brings color to your garden but also some extra cash to your pocket, mums (chrysanthemums) might be just the ticket. Over the years, I’ve seen more than a few backyard growers turn a tidy profit from these tough, popular plants. Whether you want to sell them… Click here to read more…

In beds like the one you see above I stick my cuttings about one cutting per square inch. I really put them as close together as 3/4″ of an inch, but the rows are about 1-1/2″ apart. That’s about one cutting per square inch. That’s 144 cuttings in a square foot. If you sell those… Click here to read more…

Dappled Willow, Hakuro Nishiki, is a great plant to grow and sell for a number of reasons. One, they are extremely colorful and eye catching in the early spring. They grow fast and make an excellent privacy screen. They also do well in wet areas. They do well in full sun or partial shade and… Click here to read more…

Right now is the ideal time to buy plants because they are beautiful and not picked over. We have an excellent selection of the items listed here. We have lots and lots of other things you can buy, all only $7.97 each but I’m not going to list them all here. These are the items… Click here to read more…

One of the most important things you need to learn as a gardener is that there is a digging or transplanting season that has a beginning and an end. Digging season starts in the fall, usually around Thanksgiving, after deciduous plants have lost their leaves. Digging season continues through early spring. Once plants start to… Click here to read more…

See more photos and learn more about Nathan and his nursery here. Questions, comments, mean things to say? Post them below and I will respond. Until then, by any and all means stay inspired! I often share this quote with Our Members . . . “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to… Click here to read more…

In this case we were able to lean the trees against the tailgate, but often times it helps to put a bale of straw or two across the back of the truck or trailer to lean the trees against. Then additional trees are actually stacked onto top of the first row of trees. The pots… Click here to read more…

Every single plant in the joint is only $7.97! I think we have 11 plants that are not $7.97. Everything else is! Please note; This inventory list is not complete. We have many thing that are not on this list and there are a few things here that we are still trying to get. Mike’s… Click here to read more…

Every year we host a big get together for or Our Backyard Grower Members. I’ve been doing this since at least 2003, it’s been so long I can’t even remember. We’ve just set the date for our 2020 Backyard Growers Shindig. Since this is a members only event we only post the date, time and… Click here to read more…

If there’s one thing that human beings really, really are afraid to do, it’s trimming plants. I hear this all the time; “I was afraid to trim them, I was afraid I’d kill them.” First of all, you are not going to kill things simply by trimming them. Of course cutting things to much during… Click here to read more…

Lyn lives in California and I was fortunate enough to meet her at one of Our Shindigs here in Perry, Ohio. Yes, she traveled from California to Ohio just to meet other Backyard Growers. We have backyard growers all over the U.S. and Canada and beyond successfully selling plants from home and reporting amazing results…. Click here to read more…