How to Make Money at Home Growing Small Landscape Plants on 1/20 Acre or Less

Article by: Michael J. McGroarty

You are welcome to use this article on your website or in your newsletter as long as you reprint it as is, including the contact information , How to grow Chocolate Cosmos at the end. Website URLs must be active links. You are welcome to use this article with an affiliate link, http://www.freeplants.com/resellers.htm Small town, big town, it doesn't matter, if you have a small area in your backyard , How To Plant Potted Roses that you can use for planting, then you can make money growing , Gardening - Lawn Maintenance Chores Part II small plants , How To Take Care Of Weeds at home. , The Pollen-Trapping Power of a Lawn Actually you can make pretty good money on 1/40 of one acre. That's an area about 30 feet by 40 feet. You will be amazed at how many plants , Perennials in the Flower Garden you can fit in an area that small, and at how much money you can make. Even apartment , Trees in the Home Landscape dwellers can do this! If you live in an apartment, , Wall Clocks tell time and decorate! just to get a feel for how fun and rewarding a tiny nursery can be, find somebody with a little piece of ground that they will either let you use, let you rent it, or do a joint venture with you. Is there really a market for small plants? The market is huge, something like 4 billion dollars last year alone, and the demand is tremendous. As a small grower, you have a tremendous advantage over the larger nurseries, their overhead is very high. As a backyard , Why Hire a Professional Writer? grower, yours will be almost nothing. You might be asking; "I live in a small town in a rural area, how many plants , How To Use Annuals In Landscaping Your Garden can I really sell?" Tens of thousands if you want to. Most people don't realize it, but large wholesale growers are the largest buyers of small plant , How To Use Annuals In Landscaping Your Garden s in the country. They sell so many plants , How To Use Annuals In Landscaping Your Garden that they just can not produce them fast enough themselves, so they buy them from wherever they can find them. Just pack them up in a cardboard box and ship them anywhere you want. I routinely buy large quantities of small plants , Garage Sale Checklist - a Guide To Hassle-Free Sales and have them shipped thousands of miles to my house. , Drinking tea from fine china the way to go Why do I buy plants , The Pollen-Trapping Power of a Lawn if I know how to grow , Wall Clocks tell time and decorate! them myself? There are a lot of reasons, but one is because I am impatient and don't like to grow , Sofa Slipcovers - Give Your Home An Instant Makeover! Japanese Maples from seed. , How To Take Care Of Weeds I can buy Japanese Maple seedlings for as little as 75 cents and all I have to do is pot , Growing Orchids In Greenhouses, Can You ? them up and watch them grow. , Dimmers Set a Lighter Mood I also buy large quantities of flowering shrubs , A Guide to Patio Awnings that I would like to start propagating myself. I buy them for 50 cents, pot , Selecting the Proper Pump for your Backyard Water Garden Feature them up, and often sell them the next year for $4.97. But in the meantime I take cuttings from them to propagate for next year's crop. Then I never have to buy that variety again. Those are the same reasons that many wholesale nurseries are always looking for great deals on small plants. , How To Use Annuals In Landscaping Your Garden When they find someone like you, growing , What's in Store for National Home Gardening Club Members? in their backyard, , How To Use Annuals In Landscaping Your Garden they are delighted because they know they can buy what they need for less money from a small backyard , How To Take Care Of Weeds grower than they can if they buy from a large nursery. It only stands to reason, your overhead is almost nothing, you don't have to raise the price of your plants , More Than Just Flowers – Fun Garden Accessories to pay for building , The American Arborvitae Grows well in Towanda Pa. s, hundreds of acres of land, trucks, tractors, , Mosquitoes in your yard? Try planting these. and dozens of employees. How much money do you need to get started? Almost none. All you have to do is root , How to Care for Your Outdoor Water Fountains some cuttings, and you're on your way! There are dozens of easy plant , s For Establishing a Hedge in Dublin Pa. propagation techniques that are so easy to learn that young children can do them, and with great success, I might add. This propagation information , Online Garden Seed Exchanges is available to you free of charge at www.freeplants.com The size of the area you need to get started is really up to you, but an area about the size of a picnic table is a start. I'm serious. I root , Wall Clocks tell time and decorate! my cuttings in flats , The Green Giant Arborvitae Story that are about 12" by 15", and can get between 100 and 150 cuttings per flat. , Why Hire a Professional Writer? In an area about the size of a picnic table you should be able to root , How to grow Chocolate Cosmos several thousand cuttings at a time. And guess what? As soon as they are well rooted, they have a value and can be sold immediately! Isn't that cool? Typically a root , Orchids – Growing Exotic Beauty At Home ed cutting is worth about 50 cents. Let's see now, 1500 cuttings at 50 cents each, that's $750!!! Wow!!! The wheels should be turning now. But you don't have to sell 50 cent plants, , Orchids – Growing Exotic Beauty At Home you can grow , Why Hire a Professional Writer? them until they're bigger and get more money for them. That's what I do, I pot , Garage Sale Checklist - a Guide To Hassle-Free Sales them up in small pots , How To Use Annuals In Landscaping Your Garden and they sell like crazy right from my driveway at $4.97 each. This spring , The Green Giant Arborvitae Story we sold over $25,000 worth of $4.97 plants , Trees in the Home Landscape right from our driveway. One of the people that bought my Backyard , What's in Store for National Home Gardening Club Members? 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It's certainly not a get rich quick plan , A Guide to Patio Awnings (because there is no such thing!), but plenty of people have done very well in the nursery business. All it takes is determination and hard work. You can learn it as you go along. It's much easier than you think. Michael J. McGroarty is the author of this article. Visit his most interesting website, http://www.freeplants.com and sign up for his excellent gardening , The "Minimal" Garden newsletter.

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