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Flea Markets???????? Yes, but make sure you understand the difference between the typical flea market customer and the typical plant buyer. They are completely different animals, they think differently and they spend differently. And I’m pretty sure you’d find that that the typical plant buyer has more disposable income. It’s really, really important to understand… Click here to read more…
This is a walking tour of our spring plant sale. Sorry about the wind blowing across the camera. We don’t have the luxury of picking the perfect day to shoot video so sometimes the wind is an issue. Questions, comments, mean things to say? Post them below and I will respond. A little history of… Click here to read more…
I purchased this NorthStar High Pressure Tree and Orchard Sprayer to use around the nursery for spraying and watering plants in remote areas where there is no easy way to get water to them. I’ll pull it behind the ATV. There are a lot of other pull behind sprayers on the market, some sold locally… Click here to read more…
This question comes up a lot in Our Members Area because a lot of members, including myself, recycle used nursery pots. Why? Because it’s crazy not to! These plastic nursery containers have no business in our landfills if small backyard growers like us can recycle them, make good use of them, and keep them out… Click here to read more…
Recently I purchased the Field Tuff ATV Cultivator to keep a small field as weed free as possible. In this brief review of this product I will tell you exactly what I like and dislike about this piece of equipment. When I unpacked the parts of this cultivator I found that many of the components… Click here to read more…
Roger Higgins of Roger’s Backyard Nursery in Cranesville, Pa has really impressed me not only with how successful a plant propagator he has become after Joining Our Backyard Growers Group, but with how efficiently he uses the limited space in his yard. I think I like Roger’s place because it reminds me of My First… Click here to read more…
Golden Curls Willow is a very attractive plant with branches that twist and turn like a pigs tail, but they can get big. One of Our Members, Roger Higgins from Roger’s Backyard Nursery in Cranesville, Pa has a very unusual approach to growing and selling this tree. A late friend of mine discovered and brought… Click here to read more…
Recently Duston and I took a trip to western Pennsylvania to visit One of Our Members, Roger Higgins in Cranesville, Pa. Roger has an amazing backyard nursery in a really small area and it is packed full of plants that he is growing. It was pouring rain that day and cold, 37 degrees! So we… Click here to read more…
The easiest and most predictable way to grow Dapple Willow, Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’, from cuttings is to do them as Hardwood Cuttings in the Winter. They can be done as Softwood Cuttings in the Summer, but that can be a bit tricky. But as hardwood cuttings they are very easy to root. Plants in… Click here to read more…
In this article I want to talk about the simplicity of growing, propagating, dividing and selling Hosta varieties from home. There is an insane amount of different kinds of Hosta varieties and they are a great item to grow and sell because people love Hosta, they do well in shady situations and there are a… Click here to read more…
