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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…

Stock Plants and Growing in Containers

Updated : August 18, 2015

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Stock plants, rooted cuttings, cuttings, that’s my business. Up against the donkey fence, I have planted several stock plants to take cuttings from. They are my gold mine. I have Anabelle Hydrangea and Gold Flame Spirea among many others. The Gold Flame Spirea is just a phenomenal plant. It is easy to propagate and it… Click here to read more…

How to Grow from Cuttings

Updated : January 27, 2015

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THE SIMPLEST WAY TO GROW FROM CUTTINGS If you have a tree or plant you wish to clone, look no further. This method is uncomplicated and quite easy to do. Materials needed: · Healthy cutting from a tree of your choice · Potting soil or local soil or an equal mixture of both · One… Click here to read more…

Rooting Cuttings Successfully in Sand.

Updated : September 6, 2019

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Rooting Cuttings Successfully in Sand. In this post I want to show you how easy it is to root cuttings in sand, using the techniques that I recommend. For a while there, during the growing season, we were shooting a “Mondays with Mike” video for our members.  The videos that we shot in this 30-day… Click here to read more…

Hardwood Cuttings, Softwood Cuttings, Plant Selling Success.

Updated : September 25, 2014

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This is from our “Mondays with Mike” Series. Of February 2nd of 2014 I posted This about Doing Hardwood Cuttings in the Dead of Winter.  Beautiful winter photos, bitter cold!  It got down to -15 degrees F. here in Ohio and we had many other days well below zero.  How in the world can you… Click here to read more…

Rooted Cuttings. How to pot and or plant them, how, when, how often and how much to prune them.

Updated : September 10, 2019

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Tango Weigela Rooted Cutting/Liner in desperate need of pruning.

Rooting cuttings is easy, I’ve been teaching people how to do it online since 1999.  But once the cuttings are rooted how do care for them?  How do you plant or pot them?  When should they be first pruned? All great questions that folks have.  People get all caught up in the process of rooting… Click here to read more…

How to Root Hundreds if not Thousands of Cuttings at One Time.

Updated : May 20, 2015

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26,000 rooted cuttings waiting to be potted.

What I am about to share with you is a bit of an industry secret.  But what I want you to really grasp is that this system will work for just a few cuttings, or in our case we do tens of thousands of cuttings at time using this very simple, yet incredibly effect system…. Click here to read more…

How I Shade My Cuttings

Updated : November 4, 2014

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I came up with an easy way to shade my cuttings this year PLUS I have a bit of a surprise for you. AND… you’ll get to hear from Amber! Watch the video below…

Propagation From Cuttings

Updated : December 4, 2014

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 I’ve been busy here in the nursery trying to squeeze in a few last events before winter arrives.  In this video you’ll discover the simplicity of propagation from cuttings.  For the most part I start taking cuttings around June 1st and continue taking them right up until the sand in my propagation boxes freezes.  You… Click here to read more…

A Simple Way To Root Plants From Cuttings

Updated : November 1, 2022

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Blue Angel Hosta.

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'Humpback Whale' hosta.

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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.

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Blue Angel Hosta.

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Big Daddy Hosta.

‘Big Daddy’ Hosta

'Big Daddy' hosta is one of my favorite big hostas, mostly because it's big, it's blue and it has very interested leaves that are a bit dimpled. Big Daddy hosta gets about 24" tall and 36" wide. It's hardy in zones 3 through 9, the flowers are blends of … Read Full Article

'Humpback Whale' hosta.

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We sold out of 'Humpback Whale' hosta pretty early this year. Humpback Whale is pretty impressive hosta and this one really hasn't matured yet because they can get three feet high and 7 feet wide. I've also seen photos of them that show them to be a lot … Read Full Article

Ice Plant, delosperma

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How pretty is that? And it's a ground hugging perennial that comes back year and year. These plants were new to our nursery last year so Pam and I planted three of them in our landscape at home. Not only did they do really well last year but they wintered … Read Full Article

Electric Red Dianthus

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