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

Aug 5, 2010 Wholesale Cake Boxes

Small town, big town, it doesn’t matter, if you have a small area in your backyard that you can use for planting, then you can make money growing small plants at home. 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 you can fit in an area that small, and at how much money you can make. Even apartment dwellers can do this! If you live in an apartment, 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 grower, yours will be almost nothing.

You might be asking; “I live in a small town in a rural area, how many plants 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 plants in the country. They sell so many plants 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 and have them shipped thousands of miles to my house. Why do I buy plants if I know how to grow them myself? There are a lot of reasons, but one is because I am impatient and don’t like to grow Japanese Maples from seed. I can buy Japanese Maple seedlings for as little as 75 cents and all I have to do is pot them up and watch them grow.

I also buy large quantities of flowering shrubs that I would like to start propagating myself. I buy them for 50 cents, pot 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. When they find someone like you, growing in their backyard, they are delighted because they know they can buy what they need for less money from a small backyard 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 to pay for buildings, hundreds of acres of land, trucks, tractors, and dozens of employees.

How much money do you need to get started?

Almost none. All you have to do is root some cuttings, and you’re on your way! There are dozens of easy plant propagation techniques that are so easy to learn that young children can do them, and with great success I might add.

This propagation information 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 my cuttings in flats that are about 12” by 15”, and can get between 100 and 150 cuttings per flat. In an area about the size of a picnic table you should be able to root 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 rooted 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. You can grow them until they’re bigger and get more money for them. That’s what I do, I pot them up in small pots and they sell like crazy right from my driveway at $4.97 each.

This spring we sold over $25,000 worth of $4.97 plants right from our driveway. One of the people that bought my Backyard Nursery E-book held a sale this spring and sold $2,800 worth of plants her first weekend. She was ecstatic! Of course we also sold plants for much more than that. I used to grow Japanese Red Maples and we sold those for $45 each, and they sold like hot cakes!

This is one of the most fun and rewarding home businesses you could ever get involved in. My kids have learned work ethics, the value of a dollar, and skills that will last them a lifetime. Any time they needed a little extra money all they had to do was step out the back door and earn the money they needed.

It costs very little to get started, and the rewards can be quite high. It’s certainly not a get rich quick plan (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.


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Plant Propagation Can Be A Profitable At-Home Business

Jul 8, 2010 Uncategorized

These days, many people are looking for a way to make money from home. When it comes to home based business ideas, you’ve probably heard it all from working online to becoming an overnight millionaire with a complicated MLM scheme. All the hype is enough to send you right back to the grind of looking for a job in the “real world”.

Fortunately, there are some very rewarding, yet very simple home based business opportunities. The opportunity we have in mind is not complicated and doesn’t require you to hound your family members and close friends in order to make it work. You won’t have to spend much money to get started. We are talking about plant propagation.

One of those simple yet very effective opportunities involves propagating plants right from your own home. Propagating sounds like a complicated, professional term, but it really just means you know how to root seeds or cuttings to create a wide variety of plants for resell.

Plant propagation is something anyone can do. If you don’t know how to do it there are plenty of resources available that will teach you how it’s done in one short afternoon.

Often, people that are doing plant propagation as a home based business turn it into a family venture. Getting your children involved in this is an excellent way to teach them some life lessons about working and making money. They also love making things grow.

Some people take this on as a solo venture to help make ends meet or for some extra spending money. The great thing about a plant propagation home based business is that you can earn as much or as little as you want. Your income is dictated by the number of plants you propagate and the amount of time you spend selling them.

Getting Started

You may be pleasantly surprised to discover how little land you will need to start a plant propagation home based business. You can use some large pots or a small corner of your yard to start profiting from selling plants from your home.

If you want to sell to a larger market, you can take your business online. If you opt to do this you will have to set up a website to sell your products from or list your plants in auctions. You will have to spend some time and possibly some money on advertising and will have to ship the plants after they’re sold.

You may choose to take your home based business to the Internet and sell to a very large market. However, you will have to either set up auctions or a website to sell your plants. You may have to spend some time and money on advertising and be ready to ship any plants that are sold.

Even though your expenses will be considerably higher when you operate a plant propagation business online, the profits can be considerably higher, especially in your plants are in demand.

The trick to ensuring your plants will be purchased by others is to stick with basic flowers, trees, and bushes that you know are widely used by homeowners and landscapers. Look around your residential area and see what others are growing in their yards. Look through local nurseries and make sure you beat their prices.

How To Make it Work

For a home based business like this to work, you have to pour your heart and soul into it and produce healthy, disease and pest free plants. Price them competitively and you’ll have them flying off the shelves

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