The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Bibs On!
I have been doing these summer get togethers for customers for so long I don’t even remember when we first started them. Years ago I know that. The first few were at my house on Middle Ridge, then we had a few at the house we live in now and for the past three years… Click here to read more…
This is a tutorial about the correct way to ship plants to friends or customers. First, watch this video I made about shipping plants. It shows how to properly package plants for shipment. There are few things to take notice of in the above photo. The shipper recycled an old fan box to ship these… Click here to read more…
I love getting notes like this! ************************************************ Mike, I made my first sale of plants and it was a $500.00 order! One person, my very first customer, placed a $500.00 order over the phone. I had started a bunch of seeds back in May, I love seeds! I had over 100 xxxx plants in 4… Click here to read more…
Beds verses pots? Good question. If you have really nice soil plants in the ground will out grow plants in pots most of the time, unless of course your potting soil is perfect. If the potting soil is less than perfect, the plants in pots will be slower growing. (My Potting Soil Recipe) For years… Click here to read more…
A few days ago I purchased about 600 Ornamental Grasses wholesale. I paid $1.50 each. As I was unpacking these plants I thought to myself; “What a great business this is!” I bought these for $1.50 each and I will be able to sell them next spring for $4.97. But that’s just the beginning. I… Click here to read more…
Recently one of my long time subscribers unsubscribed from my FREE gardening newsletter because he said I’ve lost focus on plants. He’s not interested in Donkeys, or Goats. So for those of you who are wondering why we are posting about Donkeys and Goats or Bee Keeping and other things that interest people who live,… Click here to read more…
Can You Believe they Did This While I was Away? Here at Mike’s Backyard Nursery, once a week I try to do a video for my customers, those who have purchased my Backyard Growing System. We call these videos “Mondays with Mike” and the customers love them because each week we show them what we’ve… Click here to read more…
Another busy week! We finished the installation of our water line and frost-free spigot, fixed up our sales area and I went crazy buying 1,300 more plants! Take a look at the video…
This is the part that people don’t understand about growing and selling small plants from home. If a stay-at-home mom who homeschools her children can do this successfully then just about anybody can do it. Nurseries buy more small plants than anybody. They have to, they can’t possibly “make” all of the plants that they… Click here to read more…
Mulching our Japanese maple beds. Audio is really bad, it was windy and then from out of now where a random clanking tractor drove behind Amber with the camera! Only in the country does that happen!
