My life of potting benches truly has involved.  For years and years I used a “Legless Potting Bench” and I pretty much made that bench famous when I shared it online so many years ago.  That started with me resting one end of the bench on my potting soil pile and supporting the other end… Click here to read more…

Every year, for many, many years now, we hold an annual event at our nursery here in Perry, Ohio for our Backyard Grower Members.  It’s a big deal for all of us because we spend all year communicating online, buying and selling plants to and from one another, helping each other growing problems, but seldom… Click here to read more…

It was early Sunday morning, the third day of our fall plant sale and I was walking through the nursery.  It was a beautiful September morning, very quiet except for the birds chirping, even the Donkeys were Quiet, just watching me stroll through the nursery when suddenly it hit me;  What an amazing thing it… Click here to read more…

Each membership is a $610 value! Be sure to throw your name in the hat. Entering this contest is easy, simply post a comment below.  On October 5th, 2016 we will randomly pick two people from those that posted a comment and you will be given a permanent, membership free of charge. What is the… Click here to read more…

I’ve been at this plant selling thing a long time and if You’ve Read My Story You Know That. But I want people to know . . . When I started I was scared. How do you know you can sell what you grow?  That’s always the million dollar question.  The answer is simple.  If… Click here to read more…

We will begin accepting new members on April 1st, but only for a few days, so mark your calendar! You Can Learn All about Our Members Area Here. One person is going to win a Permanent Membership to Our Private Backyard Growers Business Center.  This is a $497.00 value.  Members routinely pay $497.00 or more… 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…

I spend a great deal of time in Our Backyard Growers Members Area and most days it’s all about hustle and bustle, members asking questions, members offering up advice and ideas and of course all of the buying and selling that goes on.  I answer as many questions as possible, but often the other members… Click here to read more…

This is a huge opportunity as far as I’m concerned. Seriously, I truly believe that this could be really big.   Okay, so maybe it’s not really a conspiracy, but it’s close to that. I’ve been working in the green industry for a long time.  Since 1972 I believe.  Back then it was really, really… Click here to read more…

Even Fergus knows how important proper plant tagging is.  Lately we’ve been sticking thousands of hardwood cuttings right along the Donkey Fence and let’s face it, right now they all look like sticks so making sure they are properly tagged is extremely important. There are a couple of things you need to know about tagging… Click here to read more…

What???  Why would anybody want to do that or need to know that? Legitimate question for sure. The reason that I decided that this was a post worthy of putting on my blog is because when I mentioned In Our Members Area that I purchased 400 one gallon Lilacs for my sale last spring at… Click here to read more…

Not only am I going to review this book, but I’m going to give it away! Read on for details. First a bit about the authors. I don’t know Pamela Bennett but I love her career path.  While in college studying to become a teacher she landed a summer job in a garden center in… Click here to read more…

We are giving away this gardening gift basket!  We are doing this in conjunction with the nice people at Mantis.com.  You know them right?  They make all kinds of really cool gardening related tools but the one that I am most passionate about is the Mantis Tiller.  You’ve seen me use it many times, it’s… Click here to read more…

One of Our Members asked me to show everybody exactly how I go about winterizing my sprinklers and irrigation lines in the nursery.  All of my irrigation lines are PVC and PVC is very unforgiving if it freezes with water in the lines.  Black plastic well pipe, on the other hand, does give a little… Click here to read more…

Crazy right?  Getting paid to sell sticks?  It’s true, in Our Members Area sticks are a hot, hot, hot commodity in November, December and January.  Some members sell thousands and thousands of them. The look like sticks, but they are really valuable, Unrooted Hardwood Cuttings. One of the easiest ways to propagate plants is during… Click here to read more…

Potting Soil has to be the most confusing thing ever! Really it is.  You look around on the Internet and you find recipe after recipe after recipe for potting soil.  And they vary a lot and for the most part they are very different. The worst thing about all this variation? Very few of these… 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…

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…