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Starting a Backyard Nursery in August

Updated : August 27, 2015

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If you are starting your backyard nursery in August, there are a number of things you should be concentrating on. In the next 8 to 12 weeks there will be some deals on rooted cuttings and liners on the Backyard Growers Business Center Buy/Sell board. If you buy them now and just plant them in… Click here to read more…

What is a Liner Plant?

Updated : August 17, 2015

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Almost all people who want to start their own Backyard Nursery start out with liners they purchase from other growers.  Every day in the Backyard Growers Business Center, folks are buying and selling all sizes of plants; unrooted cuttings, rooted cuttings, liners, stock plants and even seeds! Liners will typically range in size from a… Click here to read more…

Can You Make $100,000 From Yard Waste?

Updated : August 18, 2015

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Rooted Cuttings Waiting To Be Potted Up

Can you REALLY make $100,000.00 from yard waste?? Sounds like one of those bogus get-rich-quick scams, right? I’m sure I’ll catch some flack for even suggesting it’s possible. But guess what… I don’t care. Before I dive into that, I wanna let you know what’s been going on at my nursery. We just finished up… Click here to read more…

Getting Ready For The First Plant Sale

Updated : July 9, 2015

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Friday May 8th will be the first plant sale of the season for Mike’s Plant Farm 4850 North Ridge Road, Perry, Ohio 44081, Fri-Sun 9-5 Mike, Pam and Cathy have been working non-stop getting everything ready.  Come on out and meet the whole gang! Mike, Pam and Cathy will be there Fri-Sun. Duston and Sharon… Click here to read more…

Mike’s New Nursery… From The Beginning!

Updated : May 7, 2017

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This is what we started with in 2010.   This fun little video documents our progress through the spring of 2012. The front container growing area is just to the right off the donkeys.  This photo was pretty much taken from the same vantage point as the above photo where the ground is snow covered…. Click here to read more…

Blue Angel Hosta.

‘Blue Angel’ Hosta.

Posted On June 25, 2022 By Mike

Big Daddy Hosta.

‘Big Daddy’ Hosta

Posted On June 25, 2022 By Mike

'Humpback Whale' hosta.

‘Humpback Whale’ Hosta.

Posted On June 25, 2022 By Mike

Ice Plant, delosperma

Ice Plant, delosperma

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Electric Red Dianthus

‘Electric Red’ Dianthus

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Flower bulb care after they bloom.

The Right Way to Treat Your Flower Bulbs after they Bloom.

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Miniature donkey shenanigans.

Power Equipment, Pain in the Backside!

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Ice Plant, Delosperma

Photos, Landscaping Ideas from My Butt Ugly Landscape. Worst Landscape Design Ever!

Posted On June 8, 2022 By Mike

Busting Gardening Myths!

Posted On May 1, 2022 By Mike

How to Move Heavy things the Easy Way.

Posted On April 13, 2022 By Mike

Complete Guides

Growing, Rooting and Propagating Dappled Willow in Tree Form from Cuttings.

Growing Seeds, Winter Sowing, in Milk Jugs and Kitty Litter Jugs.

The Correct Way to Pot Rooted Cuttings, Nursery Stock Liners and other Plants.

Training Arborvitae and other Conical Evergreens to Grow with a Single Leader.

How to Propagate, Root Cuttings, of Dwarf Alberta Spruce.

Recent Posts

Ice Plant, Delosperma

Photos, Landscaping Ideas from My Butt Ugly Landscape. Worst Landscape Design Ever!

A couple of years ago I posted a video and some photos of the landscaping around our house and one guy said something like, "It's a good thing you know how to grow plants because your landscape design skills are terrible. So when I did an update I titled the … Read Full Article

Busting Gardening Myths!

One of Our Members, http://backyardgrowers.com/join, shared this article with the other members. It's a great article about long held gardening beliefs that just flat out are not true. I'd love to display the article here but I just don't have permission to … Read Full Article

How to Move Heavy things the Easy Way.

It's that time of year when I have to put balls on the Japanese maples that we dug earlier this spring. On this page, https://mikesbackyardnursery.com/2021/04/how-to-put-a-ball-and-burlap-on-a-bare-root-tree-that-has-been-previously-dug/, I show you how I put … Read Full Article

21 Plants that are Easy to Grow and Sell Like Crazy!

21 Plants that are Easy to Grow and Sell Like Crazy The following 21 plants are really easy to grow and they sell like hot cakes. They always have been really good sellers and they always will be really good sellers. And this list is just the tip of … Read Full Article

Hardwood cuttings of Dappled Willow.

Rooting Dappled Willow from Hardwood Cuttings and Starting a Fun Little Business with Nothing but a Handful of Sticks.

Dappled Willow, Hakuro Nishiki, is a great plant to grow and sell for a number of reasons. One, they are extremely colorful and eye catching in the early spring. They grow fast and make an excellent privacy screen. They also do well in wet areas. They do … Read Full Article

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