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A Successful 20 Year Old

Updated : May 29, 2019

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How many 20-year-olds that you know can make a claim like this: A note from one of my customers.  She posted this for all of the new members of The Backyard Grower’s Business Center to see… “Mike you met Rachel, year before last, she is getting it, at least on a small scale, thinking bigger,… Click here to read more…

Awesome!

Updated : June 8, 2011

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This is how you enter the contest. You have to mail me a postcard, a letter, or like I said before, the flap from the top of the Cherrios box.  Some people want me to register them via Email, but that’s not going to happen.  I am not going to sit at my computer and… Click here to read more…

Potting Shed Disguised As An Outhouse

Updated : November 25, 2014

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This is going to sound really crazy, but a few years back I was actually suffering from outhouse envy!  Never heard of it?  Probably not, but I declare it to be a real affliction.  Perry, Ohio is a fairly rural community.  Two traffic lights and not a single fast food restaurant.  That rural enough for… Click here to read more…

Me, the Grandkids, and the Train!

Updated : November 25, 2014

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I thought it would be really cool to buy a train for our house. I know the boys love trains, and I saw those really big G scale trains when we were on vacation. So I ordered the train, ordered extra track and set it all up. The boys, 6, 4 and 8 months love… Click here to read more…

Purple Sandcherry-Pruning and Propagating

Updated : May 20, 2015

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Purple Flowering Sandcherry is an easy plant to grow, always a great seller because of its purple leaves and delicate pink flowers. Always in demand. How is this plant sold? Let me count the ways. Unrooted hardwood cuttings. An unrooted cutting is pretty much nothing but a stick.  But because of the popularity of Purple… Click here to read more…

Messages like this Bring Tears to My Eyes.

Updated : November 25, 2014

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I logged onto the Backyard Growers Message Board last night and read this message. It brought tears to my eyes. We bought Mike’s Backyard Growing System in March 2008! Our restaurant had just closed down! We had lost everything we had worked for the last 12 years and my husband was planning to move to… Click here to read more…

Heeling In Plants

Updated : August 18, 2015

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What Does Heeling In Plants Mean? In the nursery business we often toss around terminology that some people get confused by.  I often suggest to people that when they buy plants late in the fall to just “heel them in” until spring.  And they often have no idea what I mean by that. Sometimes we… Click here to read more…