Getting ready for our plant sale, plants lined up everywhere, building is packed full of Rhododendrons!
Getting Ready for the Plant Sale
Updated : June 17, 2024
Landscaping Ideas. What Plant Goes Where in the Landscape?
Updated : June 17, 2024
What does it take to create a nice, attractive landscape planting? What is the number one thing that many people do wrong? The secret to an attractive landscape design is you have to be bold and daring. Take off your “conservative” hat and toss it in the fire pit! What do most people do wrong?… Click here to read more…
Colorful and Flowering Plants to Brighten Up Your Yard in the Early Spring
Updated : May 16, 2020
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…
Mondays with Mike McGroarty at Mike’s Plant Farm, 4850 North Ridge Road, Perry, Ohio 44081
Updated : November 5, 2014
Welcome to Mondays with Mike McGroarty. I started doing these videos for my Backyard Growers, but realized that a lot of other people will like them as well. This is a bit of a documentary of what we we have going on at Mike’s Plant Farm here in wonderful Perry, Ohio. May 27th, 2013. Mulching… Click here to read more…
We Landscaped the Old House
Updated : November 5, 2014
We got the old house landscaped, we’ve got our sign posts up, no sign so we hung up some rubber chickens (long story), the landscaping around the sign is done and the pile of dirt from last week’s video is now a beautiful landscape planting.
How to Make Your Own Sprinklers on Stand Pipes.
Updated : June 17, 2024
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 : June 17, 2024
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…
Rooted Cuttings Experiment and More
Updated : June 17, 2024
I setup a rooted cutting experiment to see which medium would work best between coarse sand and potting soil. Watch the video to see which worked best!
How can I use free wood chips in my garden?
Updated : November 5, 2014
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…
How to Propagate Fragrant Viburnum.
Updated : April 30, 2019
There is nothing like the smell of a fragrant viburnum outside your bedroom window or off the end of your porch. As the wind blows the fragrance is carried throughout the yard. There are a number of different fragrant Viburnums but two old time favorites, and the two that are still the best no matter… Click here to read more…
Went Whacko at the Nursery Auction
Updated : November 5, 2014
I attended a recent nursery auction in my local area and went a little crazy buying plants!
Mike McGroarty’s Backyard Cash Machine Report for only Seven Dollars.
Updated : May 9, 2013
Why am I offering this report for only $7.00? Great question. Here’s the deal. I am doing everything in my power to get people involved in the business of growing and selling small plants at home with as little financial commitment on their part as possible. The plant growing, plant loving world needs more small… Click here to read more…
Easy Composting Ideas and Receipes.
Updated : June 17, 2024
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
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…
How to Ruin a Japanese Maple Tree.
Updated : April 12, 2019
Why would I Write a Blog Posting about Ruining a Japanese Maple? Because people do it all the time unintentionally. Here’s the deal; “You only know what you know.” That includes me. So my job here is to make sure that all of my followers/subscribers learn things that I know and they may not. Contrary… Click here to read more…
Should I Remove the Burlap Before Planting My Tree?
Updated : April 9, 2019
Excellent question and here’s my definitive answer; “It depends.” There are a lot of different kinds of so-called burlap being used to ball trees today and there’s no way for me to know what kind of burlap your tree has on it. I often like to leave the burlap intact when planting trees because it… Click here to read more…
Buying Plants at Wholesale Prices.
Updated : June 17, 2024
Members of the Trade Never Pay Retail Prices for Plants, Wholesale Rooted Cuttings or Liners. What most people don’t realize is that as a member of the trade, nurseryman, landscaper, garden center, or Backyard Grower, you are entitled to buy plants on the wholesale market. And the prices are remarkably lower, for a lot of… Click here to read more…
Spring Pruning Tips. Should I Prune Now?
Updated : April 5, 2019
Pruning, pruning, pruning, pruning! When to prune? How to prune? When to prune this? When to prune that? People seem so confused by it all. So in as few words as possible I am going to give you my take on pruning. Hey! Do You Have an Extra Square Foot in Yard?Just One Square Foot? … Click here to read more…
Preventing a Back Injury While Gardening.
Updated : November 5, 2014
To many, gardening and back injuries go hand in hand. But that shouldn’t be the case. Gardening can be the most back friendly activity that you engage in, but you have to be smart about it. Gardening is not about killing yourself with hard work, heavy lifting or tugging and pulling. I’ve got back problems… Click here to read more…
Are Hybrid Plants Better?
Updated : March 8, 2025
Nature Intended for Plants to Reproduce by Means of Sexual Reproduction. Along time ago when the earth was green (stole that line from the Irish Rovers song “The Unicorn”) new plants were born. Chance seedlings that just popped up. Probably a tad more complicated than that but for the sake of simplicity we’ll just assume… Click here to read more…
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