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So it’s February 5th and about 12 degrees outside here in Perry, Ohio. You would think that this would be a slow time of year in the growing business, but you’d be wrong! Many of our successful growers are still buying and selling plants in anticipation of their first plant sales beginning in April! What… Click here to read more…
Is it really possible that one lonely rooted cutting could change your life forever? I suppose it could. I decided to write this because this morning I was giving some advice to one of our Canadian members about getting started selling small plants. I felt that he was thinking way too small and taking way… Click here to read more…
Free Flowering Shrubs and Evergreens! It’s true, you can grow all of the flowering shrubs you want, absolutely free, once you learn how to root them yourself at home, in your backyard. I’m fixin’ to show you how to do that right now. Be prepared to be intrigued! I want to make this as simple… Click here to read more…
I am going to show you how to grow all the flowering shrubs you want, absolutely free of charge. This really does work, in the dead of winter, outside in the cold, snow and freezing weather. I’ll prove it to you. I know, I know, I know! The plants in the picture look like dead… Click here to read more…
We’re giving away two full memberships to the Backyard Grower’s Business Center, a $610 value! To enter to win, all you have to do is leave a comment below. We will choose two numbers at random and match those numbers with the comment number below. (NOTE: only we can see the comment numbers, they’re not… Click here to read more…
When is the best time to prune shrubs in your landscape? The answer is: When it needs it. Some experts might tell you that you need to wait until winter or early spring to cut back your shrubs or trees. Here at Mike’s Plant Farm, we ignore the calendar and prune as needed. We prune… Click here to read more…
Once or twice a year we invite our Backyard Growers to my place, Mike’s Plant Farm, here in Perry, Ohio. Each year we have a group of wonderful people. We enjoy the day talking plants, plant propagation, growing and selling plants and we eat. And of course the donkeys love the company. We also do … Click here to read more…
There are a number of different varieties of Hydrangea shrubs that are often grown into tree form. Many people don’t realize that a Tree Hydrangea is actually a Hydrangea shrub that was simply trained to grow as a flowering tree. This is also done with Rose of Sharon, I’ve seen it done with Red Twig… Click here to read more…
I took most of these snow covered tree photos early in the morning. Winter Time Plant Propagation Believe it or not, the dead of winter is the ideal time to make hardwood cuttings of many deciduous plants. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? However, with many plants it really is the ideal time. We do most of… Click here to read more…
I am going to talk to you about Winter Tree and Shrub Transplanting Tips and Why Now is the Ideal Time. Sounds crazy right? This isn’t gardening season, it’s winter. Spring is gardening season! Well . . . that’s sorta true. People really get confused about when to transplant what and how to go about… Click here to read more…
. . . and guess who the crazy person is? Me. Mike McGroarty. This is what I did that appears to be so crazy, but this is a great lesson in pruning as well as a lesson in Plant Propagation. I bought this one plant last summer and planted it in the yard. My only… Click here to read more…
Sometime last fall or winter I did a post about doing hardwood cuttings and I remember having a flat packed full of little tiny hardwood cuttings. I just looked for that post and I can’t find it. And to be perfectly honest, I don’t have time to keep looking. So the first person that finds… Click here to read more…
Selling the plants that you grow is actually quite easy because people love plants. They love to buy them, they love to plant them and they love looking at them. This is How You Make Up to $93.60 per Square Foot Right in Your Own Backyard. How do I know this? 1. I am one… Click here to read more…
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…
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on buying plants online and also selling the plants you grow online: Part 1 – How to Sell Plants Online Part 2 – Where to Buy Plants (at Rock-Bottom Prices) Online Part 3 – [You Are Here] – How to Get Paid to Sell Sticks (Yes… STICKS!!)… Click here to read more…
How to Build a Plant Propagation Box for Rooting Cuttings. The plant propagation box that I am going to show you how to build in this video is really, really easy to build. You can make it any size you want from a little tiny one and as large as you want. You can use this box… Click here to read more…
Pruning or Trimming Purple Sand Cherry and growing Sand Cherry from Cuttings. In this video you will see how I cut Purple Sand Cherry in the fall to make sure they grow nice and tight and don’t get thin and spindly. You will also learn how to take all of those clippings and use them to make hardwood… Click here to read more…
This might seem like a stretch on a gardening site, but I hope you make the connection with me. It might be hard to see a connection between growing and selling small plants and a Ferris Wheel so I will make that connection for you. Anytime I am doing anything in my nursery in the… Click here to read more…
Friends, I’ve been growing and have had Java Red Weigela in my landscape for years and I promise you, this is a very, very nice plant. Like almost all flowering shrubs it should be pruned at least once a year to maintain a nice shape, but the nice thing about Java Red is that it… Click here to read more…
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…
