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Growing small
plants in your backyard is one of the most rewarding things you will
ever do in your life. Not to mention the money you can make.
Below is a testimonial from one of my customers.
| Hi Mike,
I finished building my first timer
system last Monday . I have 59 rooted Blue Girl Holly and thirty
Blue Rug Juniper. That's not why I am E-mailing you, but I
am proud of the accomplishments never the less.
I am having the time of my life. I
like to work but I have never had this much fun at it. No
one ever got rich working for someone else, but if I never make a
dime, I am already rich!
Thanks, Shepp.
|
In the above photo I am working with some of our
$4.97 plants. I
love working with these little plants. It's a relaxing and rewarding way to spend
your spare time.
Can you make any money selling plants at $4.97 each?
Yes you
can!!!
Our cost to produce a
$4.97 plant is about 25¢, and that includes
a plastic container and potting soil. That means that for
every 100 plants you grow and sell you get to keep $472.00. And for
every 1,000 plants you grow and sell you get to keep $4,720.00!!!
Last
spring we sold over $25,000. worth of our
little plants right from our driveway in a
matter of about six weeks!
And
every single plant was priced at just $4.97!
Of course since it costs
us less than 25¢ to grow a plant, most of that money is pure profit!
We could do a lot more, but
that's all I'm interested in doing. This is just a hobby for
me. I have friends that sell over one million dollars worth of
plants each year wholesale! I know that sounds hard to believe, but
it's true.
Click
here to see one of our plant sales,
and photos of our backyard nursery.
You don't need much room to start a backyard
nursery. In an area 4 feet by 8 feet you can easily grow 100 plants.
Just imagine how many you can grow in an area 40' by 50'.
| "I recently bought your
manual "How to Start Your Own Backyard Nursery". I was shocked at all the really
good information that was in it. It was worth every penny! Thanks, it's a
great manual! -Bradley |
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here to check out
Mike's Backyard Growing System!
Starting your own
backyard nursery is very easy, and you don't have to make a serious
commitment. Just start out slow, and as you go along you will become
more comfortable with the idea. If you change your mind you can give
the plants to friends or family, or donate them to a charity auction,
which is also very rewarding.
Hey
Mike, What about my local zoning?
You can make a
lot of money growing and selling small plants! I'll teach you
everything I know about this business. I've created an E-book that
reveals every money making technique that I know. This E-book is
worth it's weight in gold, and I'll tell you why. It comes with a
number of free bonus reports that I have been selling for years, but I
decided to give them away free with my Backyard Nursery E-book.
Mike
I saw your article published in Mother Earth News. I saw it on the
news stand in my local Wal-Mart, bought it and took it home to
read.
Our little backyard nursery was
featured on
the cover of the Oct./Nov. 2000 issue of
Mother Earth News Magazine!
As soon as I finished that I went right to the website, studied
it, and have since bought the book, 2 reports and a video. I have
been lurking on the forum ever since.
Today I now have 2, 8x4 foot sand filled propagation beds, about
2,000 plants in 2 quart containers. I have two beds holding
over 500 plants 6" apart directly in the ground.
I don't have much in my landscape
to take cuttings from, but I found that several local businesses
are tickled pink to get a free hedge clipping job provided
nobody else is allowed to touch their landscape plants! The word
is getting out, so I'm actually turning down free trimming jobs
because I can't keep up in the potting department with all the
rooted cuttings.
I've already sold lots of plants
to local nurseries @ $3 each, and they're happy to get them at
that price.
I just had my second inspection by the Virginia Department of
Agriculture, and the inspector is totally impressed. She
said she had never seen such a well planned and efficient
operation before, and in
somebody's backyard no less!
She also told me that my plants
are much better quality than other growers in the area.
Professional growers that have been in business for many years!
She asked if I had studied horticulture in a university, and I
said no. She asked how many years I have been doing this, so I
told her that I had just decided to start last January, and that I
had absolutely no prior experience. With that she was
absolutely dumbfounded.
All in all I'd say that for part-time work I haven't done too bad
for a disabled person, thanks to you Mike!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Russ.
Congratulations Russ on a job well done! You really took the
ball and ran with it my friend! Nice job and good luck in
the future, but I don't think you'll need it, you're doing
fantastic already. -Mike |
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here to check out
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Click
here to see one of our plant sales,
and photos of our backyard nursery.
| We recently received your videos,
book, and manual. We just watched one of the videos and we
loved it. Thank you for the great info. We are very
anxious to get started. You are a fountain of information.
I only wished you lived closer! Thanks, Mike!" -Marsha
Beebe |
Just growing a few
plants to give away will give you an idea of how strong the market is for
small landscape plants. Once you give your friends and family a few
plants they will come back asking to buy more. Before you know it
you will have a list of regular customers, begging you to take their
money.
Or if you're like
me, you'll just dive right in and start growing quantities of plants right
off the bat, and selling them to willing buyers.
| "Received your
book today. Read your report and book, and watched your two videos.
EXCELLENT and down to earth!!!! Very simple and uncomplicatedly
explained.
Thanks for a new
insight. -Paul Gregus
|
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here to check out
Mike's Backyard Growing System!
I'll let you in on a
little secret.
The market for
landscape plants is huge. Even small landscape plants.
Here in Perry, Ohio
my house is surrounded by over 100 large wholesale nurseries, with many of
them selling millions of dollars worth of plants each year.
Yes I said millions
of dollars!
Some of these
nurseries farm over 600 acres, with sales of 7 million dollars
annually! That's a lot of plants.
Yet, little ole Mike
sets right in the middle of all these big nurseries, and my nursery is
only 1/20 of one acre. That's tiny! (that's an area about 45'
by 50')
In the spring I have
people waiting in line to buy my plants. We sell thousands of
dollars worth of plants each spring right from our driveway. Selling
the plants is easy, and growing them is fun.
Mike,
One day as I was surfing along. I saw a
site called freeplants.com. I found you and all your
down to earth wisdom. I had been kicking the idea of a
small nursery around for over a year. So I bought your
book. Read it. And read parts of it (out loud) to my
husband and son.
You gave me the inspiration to try. I
asked people I knew for pots. I have hundreds of free pots
now. 1 gallon and 5 gallon. We bought potting
soil from a wholesale nursery about 40 min away. And I
divided perennials that grow in my yard. When I had about
400 I ran an ad for perennials that grow well in our area and my
husband took out a sign to the main road and in two days I sold
$293.00 worth!
And I was afraid to ask $4.00 a plant so I
asked $3.00 each or 4 for $10.00 for the small ones and $6.00
each or 2 for $10.00 for the large ones. I know that isn't
a lot but it paid for your book, the ad, the dirt we bought and
best of all people loved them! You were right I sold
everything that had a bloom on it.
So I just wanted to say thank you! And let
you know that when I would get nervous or think it wouldn't work
about that time I would get a message from you and I would think it
was worth a try. Know what I did with part of my profit?
Bought more dirt! And a weeping red split leaf
Japanese maple about 3 1/2 foot tall so eventually I can show
people this beautiful tree in my yard!
Thanks again Mike!
The Nash Family
|
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Words can not
describe what it is like to have your own backyard nursery. When
people visit our nursery they are completely in awe of what we do
here. Most are impressed, some are envious, but they are all very
appreciative.
Click
here to see one of our plant sales,
and photos of our backyard nursery.
They are like kids in a candy store, grabbing plant
after plant, delighted to buy such beautiful plants for such a low
price. Yet, our profit is still over 1800% over cost. Then they come back
year after year just raving over how well our plants grew. It just
doesn't get any better than that.
| "I have read your
reports and your book. They are great! You have perfected what
I have been planning and trying to tell my husband for over a year.
Now I have proof to show him that it will work. Thanks so much for
all your great information!" -Beth O'Neal
|
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here to check out
Mike's Backyard Growing System!
I'd love to teach
you everything I know about this business. It is so much easier than
you think. Of course you don't
have to do retail sales from home. You can sell wholesale to garden
centers and other nurseries, or you can sell your plants via mail
order.
You
can grow small plants and sell
them on the internet!
You can just grow
rooted cuttings and sell them to large wholesale nurseries. The
market for rooted cuttings is great. Many large growers can't keep
up with the demand, so they buy thousands and thousands of rooted cuttings
from other growers.
And guess
what? They love to buy from small growers because they know that you
and I can offer them quality plants at a lower price than the big
nurseries. So they actually seek out little growers like you
and I.
I called a wholesale
grower to buy some rooted cuttings of a fragrant Viburnum and they told me
that they were completely sold out for this year, and all of the fragrant
Viburnum cuttings that they intend to grow next year are also already
spoken for, but if I'd like they could put me on the waiting list for two years from
now! Can you believe that? They've already sold something like
120,000 plants that they haven't even grown yet, at a little over a dollar
each!!!
When I heard that, I
did two things. First, I placed an advanced order for 1,500 fragrant
Viburnum cuttings for two years from now. And I then asked him how
many of these cuttings they had sold this year. He said
60,000!
Why do I want 1,500
of them? So I can plant them in beds and take cuttings from each one and start selling them
myself! If I plant them in a bed and a year later get just 5
cuttings from each plant, that's 7,500 cuttings! Then a couple years
later I can take cuttings from those plants, and sell the ones that I
bought for at least 4 to 7 times what I paid for them.
This is an
incredible business!
This is how we sell our plants at
home. We
just line them up in the driveway, and invite
people to come and shop. Those are all plants
that we grew in our backyard.
I took this photo in early April 2002, and
by Memorial
Day we had sold $12,000. worth of our little
$4.97 plants right from our driveway.
Last spring we sold over $25,000. worth
of plants all at $4.97.
Click
here to see one of our plant sales,
and photos of our backyard nursery.
Of course as I
mentioned earlier, you can sell your plants wholesale and not have the
hassle of people coming to your house. Or you can sell them at the
Farmer's Market. A lot of my E-book customers sell at Farmer's
Markets.
I will show you how
to find cash buyers for thousands and thousands of rooted cuttings.
Selling rooted cuttings is a breeze because you can pack several hundred
or one thousand in box and ship them anywhere in the country.
Of course fragrant
Viburnums are not the only rooted cuttings that are in demand. All
varieties of flowering shrubs as well as Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and all
kinds of evergreens sell really
well. You can even sell
your plants on the internet, and you don't even need a website.
