Ask any Member, without a doubt, Our Backyard Growers Group are like family and to many, closer and more important than family. Our Backyard Growers Group is a group of like minded people who are dedicated to helping one another.  For years and years I’ve been holding a Backyard Growers Shindig at my nursery here… Click here to read more…

Tagging the plants that you grow and sell is a necessary evil.  You have to tag them for your own reference and you have to tag them for your customers whether you sell retail or wholesale.  Hand writing tags works just fine, but it can be really time consuming and finding a marker that really… Click here to read more…

Ornamental grasses can be really challenging to over winter in pots.  If you cover the pots with white plastic like I show here that helps a great deal because it keeps them dry so they don’t rot.  But uncovered, they don’t do well in pots over the winter here in the north. So this year… Click here to read more…

We have to say a huge “Thank You!” to Tim Broztman of Brotzman’s Nursery in Madison, Ohio for taking time out of his extremely busy and demanding life to take a “wagon load” of our members on a tour of their most interesting and impressive nursery. Before I tell you a bit about Brotzman’s, I… Click here to read more…

Human beings love to take simple things and make them as complicated as possible! My job as your gardening/growing mentor is to get you back to the basics so you can focus on what works and get more done. There are a lot of different ideas about how to go about any given task, but… Click here to read more…

There are all kinds of truly awesome Huechera on the market, but many of the most Desired Ones are Patented, which makes it illegal to propagate them without entering into a legal agreement with the patent holder.  That involves a license fee and guarantee that you will produce a certain amount every year.  Licenses usually… Click here to read more…