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How to Propagate and Grow ‘Milky Way’ Chinese Dogwood Trees, Cornus kousa

Updated : July 9, 2019

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Milky Way Chinese Dogwood Tree

Chinese Dogwood trees are really special because they bloom later than most flowering trees and often bloom longer. Here in zones 5 and 6, they don’t start blooming until at least June.  The blooms open a beautiful mint green in color and then whiten as time goes on. Is there a market for Chinese Dogwood… Click here to read more…

Top 20 Gardening Blogs 2013

Updated : November 5, 2014

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It’s that time of the year again, and if you’re a gardener looking to plant beautiful flowers, fruits, and vegetables, catching the latest gardening blogs is something you are sure to find enjoyable as well as beneficial. Why Read a Blog? These gardening blogs offer a world of information to those who choose to read… Click here to read more…

Mulching Our Japanese Maple Beds

Updated : November 5, 2014

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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!  

Wheelbarrow Review, Which Wheelbarrow Should You or I Buy?

Updated : April 27, 2016

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Jackson Wheelbarrow

(Watch the video at the bottom of this post.  This might just be the fastest wheelbarrow in the world!) Wheelbarrows!  Why so many options?  Why can’t it be simple? One wheel? Two wheels? Plastic tub?   Metal tub? Is a two wheeled garden cart better? What about an electric wheelbarrow? (Read my review before going… Click here to read more…

Colorful and Flowering Plants to Brighten Up Your Yard in the Early Spring

Updated : May 16, 2020

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Lynnwood Gold Forsythia

Your yard should have a sequence of color starting in spring and taking you on a journey of color and joy throughout the year.  I’m going to start by showing you a few things that will really wake up your yard in early spring. Lynnwood Gold Forsythia. A lot of people don’t like Forsythia, but… Click here to read more…

How to Make Your Own Sprinklers on Stand Pipes.

Updated : April 29, 2015

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Homemade Sprinkler Stand Pipe

Last week I realized that I need a couple of portable sprinklers that I could easily move around but they had to be high enough to clear small plants so I would get good coverage.  Those tripod sprinklers that you can buy are nice but they are expensive, and I had some that were made… Click here to read more…

Snow Damaged, Hoop House, Greenhouse, High Tunnel.

Updated : October 25, 2015

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Snow Damaged Hoop House

A lot of our members want greenhouses, even though you can easily do the Backyard Nursery Business with one.  I don’t have one.  Had one, took it down.  Everything I do is without a greenhouse.  If I were to do 30,000 or 50,000 Rhododendron cuttings each year for that I’d build a greenhouse.  Everything else… Click here to read more…

How can I use free wood chips in my garden?

Updated : November 5, 2014

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When we utter the word mulch it can mean a lot of different things.  Some mulch is free, some mulches we make ourselves via composting and some mulches you have to pay for. Where can I get Free Mulch? For the most part the only mulch that you are likely to get free of charge… Click here to read more…

Easy Composting Ideas and Receipes.

Updated : April 23, 2019

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Tell us about your composting methods. I’d love for you to share your composting, recipes, ideas and strategies here with others.  Post a comment below. You Should Be Doing this!  You Can Make Up to $93.60 in One Square Foot in Your Backyard.  Take a Peek. Rule #1 about composting. Composting doesn’t have to be… Click here to read more…

Harry Lauder Walking Stick

Updated : January 11, 2021

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Harry Lauder's Walking Stick in a pot

As many of you know I’m a big fan of the crazy looking plant Harry Lauder Walking Stick.  The true beauty of this plant is it’s crazy contorted branches that can’t grow straight if they tried. A few years ago we planted hundreds of these in the nursery and we’ve since dug them all up…. Click here to read more…

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Complete Guides

Growing, Rooting and Propagating Dappled Willow in Tree Form from Cuttings.

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Training Arborvitae and other Conical Evergreens to Grow with a Single Leader.

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Recent Posts

Flower bulb care after they bloom.

The Right Way to Treat Your Flower Bulbs after they Bloom.

Me and the donkeys made a movie for you about caring for your flower bulbs after they bloom. It seems to be that the standard practice is to roll the tops into a ball, put a rubber band around them and wait for them to turn brown before you cut them … Read Full Article

Miniature donkey shenanigans.

Power Equipment, Pain in the Backside!

Listen up, me and the donkeys, Finnegan and Fergus, made a video for you that just might save you a giant headache when it comes to your power equipment. I made this giant mistake and hopefully this will make sure that it does not happen to you. Not … Read Full Article

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Photos, Landscaping Ideas from My Butt Ugly Landscape. Worst Landscape Design Ever!

A couple of years ago I posted a video and some photos of the landscaping around our house and one guy said something like, "It's a good thing you know how to grow plants because your landscape design skills are terrible. So when I did an update I titled the … Read Full Article

Busting Gardening Myths!

One of Our Members, http://backyardgrowers.com/join, shared this article with the other members. It's a great article about long held gardening beliefs that just flat out are not true. I'd love to display the article here but I just don't have permission to … Read Full Article

How to Move Heavy things the Easy Way.

It's that time of year when I have to put balls on the Japanese maples that we dug earlier this spring. On this page, https://mikesbackyardnursery.com/2021/04/how-to-put-a-ball-and-burlap-on-a-bare-root-tree-that-has-been-previously-dug/, I show you how I put … Read Full Article

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