If you can’t put a sign up in front of your house, or don’t have much of a connection with a gardening community, it’s crucial to figure out how you will reach customers. There are many angles.
I'm 14 and I love plants. I'm currently starting to sell houseplants and roses outside my local mall. currently I'm just seeding, but I'm super excited
Great video, here's what I've got to add: 1) Look at your local market, go to places around you and see what they've got and take pictures, especially of pricing. Talk to the people that run your local nurseries, talk to customers, see what people want that they can't already get. This is called market research and if you skip this step, go ahead and skip all the rest of them too because you aren't serious enough about this to operate a business. 2) Make yourself an expert in something, don't be a generalist. Everyone will come to you for your expertise and quality and knowledge. 3) Come up with a theme that is practical and easy to understand (and easy to market), for example: sell all peppers: hot peppers, bell peppers, sweet peppers. Or sell plants used for lacto-fermentation/pickling like pickling cucumbers, cabbage for sauerkraut, carrots (kimchi), etc. Make yourself into the "must-go" place in your region for a very specific thing. Part of this process is choosing whether you want to focus on produce plants, ornamental flowers, herbs, trees, bushes, etc. Marketing is simply a conversation. If you make it easy for people to describe what you do, they will recommend you to others. If you are "the hot pepper guy," that's easy to understand and talk about. If you're the "Guy who grows a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Sometimes you have heirloom tomatoes, sometimes you have squash, also you have ornamental plants and a smattering of random herbs," no one can tell what you're doing and you are very difficult to talk about. If you don't have a specific specialty, your customers will find it hard to recommend you unless you have every single thing they could possibly want, or close to it. Then they can describe you as the "one-stop shop," but that's extremely difficult to do as a small business owner. It's far easier to specialize. Make it easy to understand what you're doing, and easy to talk about and your customers will do a lot of your marketing for you. If you want to be a generalist, just know that you have to beat everyone else in your area for the same customers. Most nurseries are generalists, therefore it's nearly impossible to stand out if you become a generalist as well, although it can be done. It's a lot more difficult than having everyone come to you because you're the "hot pepper guy/gal." 4) Make your own soil, create your own worm farm, make your own compost, get a wood chipper and make your own mulch/bark chips. The quality will be very high as long as you learn what you're doing and the price will be very low. Your neighbors will give you free bags of leaves and yard waste, grass clippings, etc. You can compost all of that, feed it to worms, and then use the compost and worm castings to make your own soil. 5) Go to a local feed store and buy alfalfa pellets, kelp meal, and also find a local source of rock dust (ideally basalt or granite). That's all the nutrients you'll need and if you buy alfalfa at the feed store it's far less expensive than getting it elsewhere.
Also what your lucky in growing in your area not all veggies or flowers grow easily to any areas and what conditions you have. Full sun partial shade all shade areas, climates etc
I've been gardening since I was about eight years old. I'm 56 now. Since being married to my Indonesian wife, 20+ years ago, I've learned a lot about the spices and herbs she uses in her Traditional Indonesian cooking. She likes Asian pears. She once spent $4.00 for one piece of fruit ! 🤦🏻♂️ So, halfway joking, I told her I'd plant the seeds and grow her her own tree. That was about Ten years ago. The last few years have yielded some very nice, and very sweet, asian pears. I also grow two Kaffir lime trees that she uses the leaves for her cooking. One I grew from a cutting. Now I have 16 key lime tree seedlings because she wanted to grow some for herself and to sell some to her Indonesian friends. So now, without planning it, I've started a mini nursery. I also grow A LOT of chili peppers for her every year for making hot chili oil.
A "Liner" is a plant that has been grown big enough to be planted directly into the ground, in a line, so they can grow bigger so you can re dig and sell later. It's called" "lining out stock". That's why they're called "liners".
@davidunderwood4341 I want to start selling plants. I love plants and have alotttt of house plants. I'm a widow and have 2 small kids . Daycare, and bills are a killer so I need an extra income. I want to start a greenhouse. Any tips that u guys could give me would be extremely appreciated.
For used pots, we post every 3 months on our city's facebook group page & people let us know that they have them. Some throw them over our fence. We go picking on trash night and pick up 5 gal buckets constantly...
In case anyone is wondering, the nursery license is very important. Do not try to save money by not getting your license. If you do not have that, and the state finds out (and they do have active searches just for this) they will come and confiscate your plants. There are fines as well, but if you get into compliance they don't fine you. Even if you are selling a few plants at a garage sale, if you do not have a license bye bye plants. This was told to me by a friend who works for my states Department of Agriculture. They are serious about this.
I learned the "rooting into the ground" lesson the hard way. I had a bunch of vegetable plants in pots that were doing really well but I hadn't moved them in weeks. I picked them up off the ground to move them and it sounded like velcro. 😂🥴
I have always been a plant nut, and plan to do this in my retirement but have been planning in advance, and getting started slowly before I retire. A mix of house plants and annuals so far, with all being started myself by seed, or cuttings. I started building my stock of mother plants to take my cuttings from several yrs ago. Currently have over 1,500 potted plants started at less than.25 cents each by doing my own cuttings.
I started doing bonsai a few years ago. A floral store by my job throws away nursery pots and told me I’m welcome to take one or all at my leisure as well as trays they throw away. Started propagating some juniper and boxwood cuttings over the winter. Took the last week off in April for repotting my bonsai and potting my cuttings. These cuttings won’t be proper mame bonsai for 6 years but also have some Japanese false cypress and others I’m working on to sell to introduce others into the hobby and support my hobby. I’d love to scale it next year as my gf and hopefully future fiancé loves plants and would love to propagate if she had room in her apt.
I like plants, we've been growing plants 13 yrs till now, plants and flowers are anti stress🤗 I feel fresh everytime I look at my plants just outside home and at our farm
I want to start a cactus nursery. That’s my dream but cactus plants need well draining soil. I buy pumice and other rocks in bulk to add to my cactus soil. It’s not cheap but I love my cacti so much, it’s worth every penny
Seen several comments talking about starting fruit trees from seed. If you want the same variety with the same traits your better option is to clone. It is also faster to bear fruit if done correctly. It is not hard it just takes patience. I just successfully cloned a Meyer Lemmon after about 8 weeks of misting and covering a red solo cup with a sandwich bag.
As someone who sells lots of propagated plants and would like to scale up the legal section is a great start on what I'm looking for. Another great option for the ground cover is wood pallets stacked on cinder blocks. I have my nursery on a large concrete patio, but this allows me to hose things down and wash away dead leaves, debris, bugs etc. Plus being higher keeps the plants more accessible to people and less accessible to pests. Plus it adds clear, visual grouping for different plants/varieties. Go to some local businesses or contractors and ask if they have any pallets they need disposed and offer to pick it up for them. Ask for bricks/ blocks at demolition sites. This also means I can offer pallet pricing and pickup for landscapers. Two people lift and load 30 plants at once into a pickup. Wood pallets are also fantastic trellises, raised bed material and can make sellable succulent walls with some modification.
I'll be back to watch this later. I have almost an acre of back yard and have been wanting to do a real nursery. I have a good start and I'm hoping to be motivated to continue.
Just trying to catch up on your past videos. What I have done is to put my trees and bucket garden plants on pallets onto an area that has plastic mulch/barrier like yourself. Helps to avoid roots eventually growing through the plastic mulch/barrier. Though I have 2 tractors and a skid steer with pallet forks for moving things around as needed.
Great starter idea/source video. I'd also follow up with companion videos of what to grow and what not to. Knowing the local nursery market is critical. Specialization in a handful of profitable plants trees or shrubs at the start is crucial.
You can also get ‘reverse’ ground rooting, if you have fast growing trees or whatever nearby (I get wild blackberries growing up into potted plants). I have had an oak tree take advantage of a stationary potted plant with a couple roots.
I am a plants and nature lover , currently working as a teacher , this morning I was thinking about different income sources, and its should be related to plants, thinking as this I was just stared to research on utube , wow… I found this channel , very impressive, I subscribed and excited to learn every important tips, thank you so much- from Florida
I learned the hard way not to use cheap, quick release fertilizer... I nearly killed everything I started this year thinking I was being clever saving a bit of money. Managed to save a few summer squash, and ended up putting together a hodge-podge of several other plants I hadn't planned on growing so late in the season just so I had something to garden. I won't be making the same mistake twice!
Thank you for this video. I found your RUclips videos about a week ago. I have been wanting to start a small backyard nursery for a long time but never knew where to start. It is good to hear that I can start small. I am in zone 7. Can’t wait to start.
This would be an excellent retirement business. Work at your own pace. Do it as big or small as you can manage. The work isn't backbreaking unless you make it that way. Time off whenever you need it (except Spring).
Even though I am in the UK, so the $ don't directly make sense, it is still a useful guide for what to consider and the kind of ratio of how to split my first chunk of capital to buy certain things. Very helpful, thanks
Thank you so much for your videos. They have really encouraged me and helped me kick start my business. I had been selling flowers and this past season I expanded to plants and did wonderfully
Thank you so much for all the info. I've been flirting with this idea for the past couple years. I appreciate the work you put into this to help others achieve. Best of luck to you!
Thank you so much for this video. I just retired and I thought I would like to start a nursery, but didn't have a clue on how to start one. Your short video was packed with so much great information, wow!! I can't wait to start my nursery. Thank you again!!
This was awesome. Start of covid we built a food forest in the front a mini orchard in the back, and a citrus hedge. I practiced last winter grafting cuttings onto rootstocks. Had thought of finding a cheap source of rootstocks and go to town. I have at least 8 different apples, 10 citrus and a ton of stone fruit trees to grab free scion wood from.
You earned my subscription today, at a time when I recently unsubscribed from several channels that lost it's appeal and it was just too much stuff to keep up with and swipe all the time.
Trying to start my mini backyard tree farm. Hadnt thought about the legal aspects or how "ez" it should be to get licensed. Def the way to go as I will have well over 100 young trees to sell at the end of summer hopefully
Thanks for making such a detailed and informative video!! It would be great if you could do a video on how to sell your plants. How do you compete with bigger nurseries? How to reach private /retail consumers? So happy to have just found you! Subscribed!🌞🪴🌺🌈❤
A small nursery really isn't "competing" with the big guys at all. You're a unique thing, unique experience, and SO many people HATE going to huge nurseries, Wal Mart, Lowe's etc. They tell me that all the time. Good plants. Good pricing. Good service. That's what people want and guaranteed they won't find at least one of those at the box stores.
Great video, New Subscriber. I'm literally just starting out, I've got TONS to learn. But i want to start a small nursery. I have a couple thousand saved up and plan on building a green house in spring. I ordered some Thuja giants that are 5 to 12 inches long. Im in zone 8 and its Late December. My question is, can i plant them straight in the ground with January and February coming up and thats our harshest winter. Will they survive? If so how would i protect them from ice and snow storms? Thank you
Only plant them directly in the ground at that small size, if you have a fluffy, fertile bed worked up for them. They need a little TLC to get going in the ground when they are really small, but I've grown thousands of them that way and it works great. No need to protect from snow/ice. They'll be fine in zone 8. Otherwise heel them in and wait til about early March when most of winter is over and do with them as you wish - but still, plant in good soil bed if doing so in ground.
It’s hard to find gallon pots for much less than a dollar unless you buy huge amounts that take you way over your budget. And it doesn’t appear to be much cheaper at that. I’ve looked. Not saying there aren’t any places out there. I just take time to get em free or used cheap and buy em at Home Depot… my Home Depot sells them for 98 cents, they may be out by now and I don’t know how often they restock. I bought 120 worth, and am depending on freebies and cheapies. The bigger pots seem to be easier to get for free, but I don’t have a lot of stuff to put in those… I’m just getting started, and am growing and propagating from cuttings most of my stock and am actually going to focus on selling plugs while I get stuff growing. Or you can buy them at like 85 cents, but then you end up paying more in shipping. If anyone knows we’re to buy quantities of 200 or less including shipping for less than $200, PLEASE let me know.
I’m on a huge .3 acre corner lot and have always wanted to do something like this with my yard and have been learning allot from your videos, the idea of having a side hustle that is a fun hobbie and can include your family is awesome. How do you keep the pots from falling over In the wind? Where are you located?
North AL. Pots don't fall over in the wind unless they have particularly tall plants in them. If much of that is happening, it's time to re-pot into a larger size or get the plants sold so someone can get them in the ground.
I have some questions. So, I really want to start my own nursery business. First off, where would I sell my plants if I'm in a residential area? Is it possible to grow plants and sell them to a business? If so, who could I sell them to? How profitable is it as a full time gig?
There are a number of reasons why I don't just put my wholesale sources out there. I do occasionally mention them here and there in the videos though. That said, the little segment in this video tells you exactly how to find them. Google + a little creativity and thought in your searching will find them. I do try to be as helpful as possible though and may, at some point, figure out a way to get more wholesale sources out there. Thanks for asking - I get asked something like this more than any other single question.
Thanks for the info. I'm thinking of starting a native plant nursery that works with other native plant organizations in my area. There's a serious lack of knowledge and resources where i live.
Been there done that and just about starved to death had all my licenses bought liners and grow them up. I biggest problem was with nurseries and other plant vendors, constantly reducing the price to beat mine or selling to the public wholesale
a note from my background in fabric sales... obviously very few places that sell, for example, hydrangeas at retail... will be interested in helping you order wholesale hydrangeas, BUT... someplace that does purely vegetables or otherwise is NOT thinking of you as competition? might be willing to let you piggy back your wholesale order on theirs. i dont KNOW that, but in fabric... i was often able to get wholesale ribbon orders in with a quilt shop (they didnt carry ribbon) back before i was ordering enough to get my own order in
I’m 65. I just subscribed. I own an acre in Louisiana and it is just mowed grass right now. We get good rains and good sun. Seems as though anything can grow here. I’m thinking “why not invest $1000 in my acre?” And see what I can produce for income out of it. I’ll be reducing my own carbon footprint (I think) and while that’s not the goal at all it is kinda cool. But really I want the “hobby” of puttering and I like the idea of getting my hands into soil. Plus when I retire I could just “leave it” while I travel and pay a neighborhood kid to come water it or simply set up timer sprinklers. It is a cool idea to grow stuff. I’d be interested in your notion on a couple things. First is potted plants vs potted trees? I’m talking like landscape trees. Do you have an opinion on profitability of one type vs the other? My wife loves bamboo (she grew up in a part of the world where it grows native). I wonder about being a bamboo plant/tree nursery and wonder your opinion. As I said I subscribed. I want to learn more as the subject interests me a lot. I’m just wasting square feet of land today and it would be pretty nice looking to go out back and see a small field of “my buddies” gently swaying in the wind!
I would grow trees! Dogwoods, crapemyrtles, flowering cherries, etc. And shrubs. Truth is you can't go wrong with either. I don't know enough about bamboo to comment, I just know how invasive it is so I stay away from it... but, there are good uses for it. Cool thing is you have nothing to lose by trying. Sounds like you have some money to give it a try with and the space and resources to give it a go. So - go!!
I'm curious what is the biggest selling plant in the nursery business? My guess is the green giant arborvitaes or any arborvitaes and cypress or evergreen. As many people are thinking of giving themselves privacy screening since most yards people don't have much privacy from a small yard with a lot of building going on.
Certainly it's one of the biggest. Would be hard to say because it's going to vary A LOT by region. But the evergreen screening trees are a HUGE thing right now. Hydrangeas always will be too.
@@savvydirtfarmer Funny I had a feeling the other big seller might be something like the hydrangeas. 😆 I just know enough about plants and I love privacy so those arborvitaes would be what I spend the most on but with that said, I can propagate my own from cuttings to save a ton of money.
Overall, this info is solid and I really enjoyed the video. Skipping over some key startup costs prevents this from actually being a practical budget. I'm thinking about things like IPM costs, Irrigation costs, and structural costs. Obtaining pots, soil, license, and fertilizer is all good info though.
IPM - don't know what that is. Irrigation? For me, it's negligible. My water bill never changes. Structure? To start out, as show here, this is all that's needed.
@@savvydirtfarmer Thanks for the reply! I checked out your nursery channel and it looks awesome. IPM is just integrated pest management. Basic sprays or pathogen controls throughout the season. It can be things such as companion planting as well that help eliminate problems. I've found issues crop up that add random expenses during the start up phase before the first sale it is a large reason people tend to fail starting up.
It would be hard to believe there isn't some kind of plants you can grow that you couldn't do great with, regardless of what is around you, your population, etc. Just start growing some plants and posting them for sale. You'll likely be pleasantly surprised. But one thing is certain: if you don't try, you'll never know. Don't be defeated before you even start.
Yes, try it and see what happens! This is a great career path for a young person to start on. By the time you're 25, you can make and save enough money to start most any business you like if you do it right... and you can!
With regard to propagating plants, what is your advice regarding acquiring plants that either are patented or not patented? It seems many commercial nurseries these days are selling patented varieties.
I buy my plants, typically, from wholesalers who carry lots of unpatented plants. If they are patented, that should be noted on their availability lists. Commercial nurseries have SO MANY patented plants. Yes, they advance the nursery trade. Yes, I think they are a good thing. But the reason they sell them is because of marketing and money. They make more on them. Period. Higher prices. Shoppers see the shiny branded pots and they'll pay whatever. It's really a crazy deal.
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What is your best tip for starting a nursery?
If you can’t put a sign up in front of your house, or don’t have much of a connection with a gardening community, it’s crucial to figure out how you will reach customers. There are many angles.
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@John This x's 100!!
Social media... nothing better.
No plastic allowed.
I'm 14 and I love plants. I'm currently starting to sell houseplants and roses outside my local mall. currently I'm just seeding, but I'm super excited
Keep it up! You can do awesome things growing plants
That's awesome! Congrats! Which are your best sellers, and which are you favorite?
Good for you. Good to see young people carrying the torch!
Perfect time to learn.
That's awesome! Don't be a typical teenager and you will go far
Great video, here's what I've got to add:
1) Look at your local market, go to places around you and see what they've got and take pictures, especially of pricing. Talk to the people that run your local nurseries, talk to customers, see what people want that they can't already get. This is called market research and if you skip this step, go ahead and skip all the rest of them too because you aren't serious enough about this to operate a business.
2) Make yourself an expert in something, don't be a generalist. Everyone will come to you for your expertise and quality and knowledge.
3) Come up with a theme that is practical and easy to understand (and easy to market), for example: sell all peppers: hot peppers, bell peppers, sweet peppers. Or sell plants used for lacto-fermentation/pickling like pickling cucumbers, cabbage for sauerkraut, carrots (kimchi), etc. Make yourself into the "must-go" place in your region for a very specific thing. Part of this process is choosing whether you want to focus on produce plants, ornamental flowers, herbs, trees, bushes, etc.
Marketing is simply a conversation. If you make it easy for people to describe what you do, they will recommend you to others. If you are "the hot pepper guy," that's easy to understand and talk about. If you're the "Guy who grows a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Sometimes you have heirloom tomatoes, sometimes you have squash, also you have ornamental plants and a smattering of random herbs," no one can tell what you're doing and you are very difficult to talk about. If you don't have a specific specialty, your customers will find it hard to recommend you unless you have every single thing they could possibly want, or close to it. Then they can describe you as the "one-stop shop," but that's extremely difficult to do as a small business owner. It's far easier to specialize. Make it easy to understand what you're doing, and easy to talk about and your customers will do a lot of your marketing for you.
If you want to be a generalist, just know that you have to beat everyone else in your area for the same customers. Most nurseries are generalists, therefore it's nearly impossible to stand out if you become a generalist as well, although it can be done. It's a lot more difficult than having everyone come to you because you're the "hot pepper guy/gal."
4) Make your own soil, create your own worm farm, make your own compost, get a wood chipper and make your own mulch/bark chips. The quality will be very high as long as you learn what you're doing and the price will be very low. Your neighbors will give you free bags of leaves and yard waste, grass clippings, etc. You can compost all of that, feed it to worms, and then use the compost and worm castings to make your own soil.
5) Go to a local feed store and buy alfalfa pellets, kelp meal, and also find a local source of rock dust (ideally basalt or granite). That's all the nutrients you'll need and if you buy alfalfa at the feed store it's far less expensive than getting it elsewhere.
Wonderful information here! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Also what your lucky in growing in your area not all veggies or flowers grow easily to any areas and what conditions you have. Full sun partial shade all shade areas, climates etc
@@kdog543 Good point, thanks!
I've been gardening since I was about eight years old. I'm 56 now. Since being married to my Indonesian wife, 20+ years ago, I've learned a lot about the spices and herbs she uses in her Traditional Indonesian cooking. She likes Asian pears. She once spent $4.00 for one piece of fruit ! 🤦🏻♂️ So, halfway joking, I told her I'd plant the seeds and grow her her own tree. That was about Ten years ago. The last few years have yielded some very nice, and very sweet, asian pears. I also grow two Kaffir lime trees that she uses the leaves for her cooking. One I grew from a cutting. Now I have 16 key lime tree seedlings because she wanted to grow some for herself and to sell some to her Indonesian friends. So now, without planning it, I've started a mini nursery. I also grow A LOT of chili peppers for her every year for making hot chili oil.
Good plan on the "mini nursery."
Yes! Exactly what I want to do, grow everything I need to prepare Tom Yum soup.
I love the little thai hots as well as ghosts
Make your wife happy. It’s very important. 😰
Me too, with an indonesian wife, try to open the greenhouse business😂
A "Liner" is a plant that has been grown big enough to be planted directly into the ground, in a line, so they can grow bigger so you can re dig and sell later. It's called" "lining out stock". That's why they're called "liners".
Good words! thanks
I'm also a backyard grower. Great video!
@davidunderwood4341 I want to start selling plants. I love plants and have alotttt of house plants. I'm a widow and have 2 small kids . Daycare, and bills are a killer so I need an extra income. I want to start a greenhouse. Any tips that u guys could give me would be extremely appreciated.
For used pots, we post every 3 months on our city's facebook group page & people let us know that they have them. Some throw them over our fence. We go picking on trash night and pick up 5 gal buckets constantly...
I could listen to him speak all day
😂 it's terrible...I know.
In case anyone is wondering, the nursery license is very important. Do not try to save money by not getting your license. If you do not have that, and the state finds out (and they do have active searches just for this) they will come and confiscate your plants. There are fines as well, but if you get into compliance they don't fine you. Even if you are selling a few plants at a garage sale, if you do not have a license bye bye plants. This was told to me by a friend who works for my states Department of Agriculture. They are serious about this.
Yep to all of this.
Each state has its own rules. Look it up online
This is what i been wanting to do, but lack knowledge of getting the license.
No one is coming after you for selling plants out of your garage. Unless you're in California or NY 🤣
Where do you live?
I learned the "rooting into the ground" lesson the hard way. I had a bunch of vegetable plants in pots that were doing really well but I hadn't moved them in weeks. I picked them up off the ground to move them and it sounded like velcro. 😂🥴
Yep. I've had them root so bad to the ground I had to cut the roots from the ground with clippers and ended up killing the plants.
I have always been a plant nut, and plan to do this in my retirement but have been planning in advance, and getting started slowly before I retire. A mix of house plants and annuals so far, with all being started myself by seed, or cuttings. I started building my stock of mother plants to take my cuttings from
several yrs ago. Currently have over 1,500 potted plants started at less than.25 cents each by doing my own cuttings.
You’re on your way!!
Engaging content. You speak as if you're talking directly one on one, hard to skip. Thanks for the helpful tips 🙏🏽♥️ God bless you and your family.
Thank you for watching!
I just had this thought to start a nursery 10 min ago😂 this is my first video and it was AMAZINGGGG! So thorough and encouraging thank you! ❤️
It starts with an idea! Thanks for watching
same - I just subscribed to his channel. Great info!
Here as well. Love to grow plants. Figure make a little side money doing it lol
Did you end up starting?
@@Rory-re2vo I got a small collection going. And started a whole tray of aloe vera. As well as got about 100 starting Japanese maple trees.
I started doing bonsai a few years ago. A floral store by my job throws away nursery pots and told me I’m welcome to take one or all at my leisure as well as trays they throw away. Started propagating some juniper and boxwood cuttings over the winter. Took the last week off in April for repotting my bonsai and potting my cuttings. These cuttings won’t be proper mame bonsai for 6 years but also have some Japanese false cypress and others I’m working on to sell to introduce others into the hobby and support my hobby. I’d love to scale it next year as my gf and hopefully future fiancé loves plants and would love to propagate if she had room in her apt.
Seems like you're on the right track
@@savvydirtfarmer thank you for the information and inspiration!
I like plants, we've been growing plants 13 yrs till now, plants and flowers are anti stress🤗 I feel fresh everytime I look at my plants just outside home and at our farm
Thank you! Your enthusiasm is contagious!
Thanks for watching!
I want to start a cactus nursery. That’s my dream but cactus plants need well draining soil. I buy pumice and other rocks in bulk to add to my cactus soil. It’s not cheap but I love my cacti so much, it’s worth every penny
Definitely a very different growing situation than mine! ☀
That’s a good idea. I feel like that’s a small niche that could be taken advantage of with the right marketing.
Teu mulch. Mine do really well in that. And very cheap
Addictive
@Pink_Cactus_ any update?
Seen several comments talking about starting fruit trees from seed. If you want the same variety with the same traits your better option is to clone. It is also faster to bear fruit if done correctly. It is not hard it just takes patience. I just successfully cloned a Meyer Lemmon after about 8 weeks of misting and covering a red solo cup with a sandwich bag.
Yep. SO many plants/trees won't come true from seed and cloning/grafting is the only way.
As someone who sells lots of propagated plants and would like to scale up the legal section is a great start on what I'm looking for.
Another great option for the ground cover is wood pallets stacked on cinder blocks. I have my nursery on a large concrete patio, but this allows me to hose things down and wash away dead leaves, debris, bugs etc. Plus being higher keeps the plants more accessible to people and less accessible to pests. Plus it adds clear, visual grouping for different plants/varieties. Go to some local businesses or contractors and ask if they have any pallets they need disposed and offer to pick it up for them. Ask for bricks/ blocks at demolition sites. This also means I can offer pallet pricing and pickup for landscapers. Two people lift and load 30 plants at once into a pickup. Wood pallets are also fantastic trellises, raised bed material and can make sellable succulent walls with some modification.
That was FABULOUS! I've dabbled but didn't have the "to-do" list. Now I do. THANK YOU!
Good!
Down to the point video. Very helpful. No junk talk or bs. Wonderful. I enjoyed watching it.
Appreciate that very much!
Dude, you can learn in 20 minutes from this guy, what would take a lifetime to learn. Wow. Good video.
Appreciate that. Thanks for watching!
This is something im interested in as a hobby gardening to like business.
I'll be back to watch this later. I have almost an acre of back yard and have been wanting to do a real nursery. I have a good start and I'm hoping to be motivated to continue.
Just trying to catch up on your past videos. What I have done is to put my trees and bucket garden plants on pallets onto an area that has plastic mulch/barrier like yourself. Helps to avoid roots eventually growing through the plastic mulch/barrier. Though I have 2 tractors and a skid steer with pallet forks for moving things around as needed.
Use what you have to your advantage as well as you can! Good job.
Thank you so much for what you do. Time to turn my passion in to a real business in 2022.
You can do it!
I'm thinking of the same thing. How's your garden nursery business going?
Great starter idea/source video. I'd also follow up with companion videos of what to grow and what not to. Knowing the local nursery market is critical. Specialization in a handful of profitable plants trees or shrubs at the start is crucial.
Did a similar video to that here: ruclips.net/video/_Ka7vmKhMCg/видео.html
You can also get ‘reverse’ ground rooting, if you have fast growing trees or whatever nearby (I get wild blackberries growing up into potted plants). I have had an oak tree take advantage of a stationary potted plant with a couple roots.
When growing plants on the ground, all kinds of crazy root things happen!
Wow! Thank you for all the little tide bits
I am a plants and nature lover , currently working as a teacher , this morning I was thinking about different income sources, and its should be related to plants, thinking as this I was just stared to research on utube , wow… I found this channel , very impressive, I subscribed and excited to learn every important tips, thank you so much- from Florida
Thanks for sharing!
We just bought some undeveloped land in the country and this is the business I want to start out there. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge.
I learned the hard way not to use cheap, quick release fertilizer... I nearly killed everything I started this year thinking I was being clever saving a bit of money. Managed to save a few summer squash, and ended up putting together a hodge-podge of several other plants I hadn't planned on growing so late in the season just so I had something to garden. I won't be making the same mistake twice!
This has been extremely informative. Thanks so much for taking the time, man!
Sure! that's what we aim to do here.
Thank you. I've been looking into starting a nursery at my new home (I have an acre, I won't need all of it)... Your videos are a godsend. Thank you!
Wonderful!
Thank you for this video. I found your RUclips videos about a week ago. I have been wanting to start a small backyard nursery for a long time but never knew where to start. It is good to hear that I can start small. I am in zone 7. Can’t wait to start.
Just get started! Learn to manage just a few plants and you’ll catch on quickly
Thank you for putting this out there!
Sure! Glad it's helpful.
Ohio only charges $125 per year for the certification. Glad I watched your video and found out about this certificate.
Thanks for the excellent information, pondering a retirement business. ALL the best!
This would be an excellent retirement business. Work at your own pace. Do it as big or small as you can manage. The work isn't backbreaking unless you make it that way. Time off whenever you need it (except Spring).
Even though I am in the UK, so the $ don't directly make sense, it is still a useful guide for what to consider and the kind of ratio of how to split my first chunk of capital to buy certain things. Very helpful, thanks
Great! Thanks
Just substitute pounds for dollars.
Thank you so much for your videos. They have really encouraged me and helped me kick start my business. I had been selling flowers and this past season I expanded to plants and did wonderfully
Great! What plants have you sold?
Thank you so much for all the info. I've been flirting with this idea for the past couple years. I appreciate the work you put into this to help others achieve. Best of luck to you!
Dive in! It's a blast... most of the time. 😀
Thank you so much for this video. I just retired and I thought I would like to start a nursery, but didn't have a clue on how to start one. Your short video was packed with so much great information, wow!! I can't wait to start my nursery. Thank you again!!
You are so welcome!
This was awesome.
Start of covid we built a food forest in the front a mini orchard in the back, and a citrus hedge. I practiced last winter grafting cuttings onto rootstocks.
Had thought of finding a cheap source of rootstocks and go to town. I have at least 8 different apples, 10 citrus and a ton of stone fruit trees to grab free scion wood from.
Nice!
First i want to say great content. Second, it looks like you have answered or replied every comment. That is awesome!
I can’t get ‘em all, but I try. Thanks for being here.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise with all of us!! Much appreciated!!
Glad it was helpful!
This is so cool, I literally work at a plant nursery
You earned my subscription today, at a time when I recently unsubscribed from several channels that lost it's appeal and it was just too much stuff to keep up with and swipe all the time.
Thank you for watching!
Trying to start my mini backyard tree farm. Hadnt thought about the legal aspects or how "ez" it should be to get licensed. Def the way to go as I will have well over 100 young trees to sell at the end of summer hopefully
Your nursery license or certificate, terminology varies by state, will be a small part of that. All the best to you!
God bless you, Brother! Thanks for sharing this information.
Sure! Thanks for watching
Thanks for the video! I love the way you explain, is fast and easy to understand.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for making such a detailed and informative video!! It would be great if you could do a video on how to sell your plants. How do you compete with bigger nurseries? How to reach private /retail consumers? So happy to have just found you! Subscribed!🌞🪴🌺🌈❤
A small nursery really isn't "competing" with the big guys at all. You're a unique thing, unique experience, and SO many people HATE going to huge nurseries, Wal Mart, Lowe's etc. They tell me that all the time. Good plants. Good pricing. Good service. That's what people want and guaranteed they won't find at least one of those at the box stores.
Great video, New Subscriber. I'm literally just starting out, I've got TONS to learn. But i want to start a small nursery. I have a couple thousand saved up and plan on building a green house in spring.
I ordered some Thuja giants that are 5 to 12 inches long. Im in zone 8 and its Late December. My question is, can i plant them straight in the ground with January and February coming up and thats our harshest winter. Will they survive? If so how would i protect them from ice and snow storms?
Thank you
Only plant them directly in the ground at that small size, if you have a fluffy, fertile bed worked up for them. They need a little TLC to get going in the ground when they are really small, but I've grown thousands of them that way and it works great. No need to protect from snow/ice. They'll be fine in zone 8. Otherwise heel them in and wait til about early March when most of winter is over and do with them as you wish - but still, plant in good soil bed if doing so in ground.
@@savvydirtfarmer thank you so much.
Can’t wait to get started! Will definitely be small but I love it
Start with a few plants. Sell a few of those, keep a few of those for cuttings. Acquire more plants. Repeat over and over and over.
Same I'm in city on .25 acre. Lol. But why nor grow some hastas in the back to sell
It’s hard to find gallon pots for much less than a dollar unless you buy huge amounts that take you way over your budget. And it doesn’t appear to be much cheaper at that. I’ve looked. Not saying there aren’t any places out there. I just take time to get em free or used cheap and buy em at Home Depot… my Home Depot sells them for 98 cents, they may be out by now and I don’t know how often they restock. I bought 120 worth, and am depending on freebies and cheapies. The bigger pots seem to be easier to get for free, but I don’t have a lot of stuff to put in those… I’m just getting started, and am growing and propagating from cuttings most of my stock and am actually going to focus on selling plugs while I get stuff growing. Or you can buy them at like 85 cents, but then you end up paying more in shipping. If anyone knows we’re to buy quantities of 200 or less including shipping for less than $200, PLEASE let me know.
I buy a ton of stuff from AM Leonard www.amleo.com/landmark-6-5-in-nursery-trade-gallon-case-of-200/p/X-65NTG
I get mine from American plant company
@@savvydirtfarmer hallelujahs and gratitudes
@@plantsim thanks!!
@@plantsim Have not heard of them... will have to check them out! Thanks
This was a really great video. Thanks for all the effort you put into it!
Glad it was helpful!
Superb video. Loads of little nuggets of wisdom to glean here. Subscribed.
Much appreciated!! Thanks for watching
Best video that can be made on the topic, immediate sub.
Thanks! Glad it was helpful
videos loaded with good info ty
thanks for watching!
I’m on a huge .3 acre corner lot and have always wanted to do something like this with my yard and have been learning allot from your videos, the idea of having a side hustle that is a fun hobbie and can include your family is awesome.
How do you keep the pots from falling over In the wind? Where are you located?
North AL. Pots don't fall over in the wind unless they have particularly tall plants in them. If much of that is happening, it's time to re-pot into a larger size or get the plants sold so someone can get them in the ground.
honestly thanking you very much for your information and explanation good job done by youjanaka from sri lanka
I have some questions. So, I really want to start my own nursery business. First off, where would I sell my plants if I'm in a residential area? Is it possible to grow plants and sell them to a business? If so, who could I sell them to? How profitable is it as a full time gig?
Going to answer all of these questions in tomorrow's video! thanks for asking
Sell them to your neighbors and their friends
Sell to landscape company
@@ticktock2383 Mkay!
I know how to grow and enjoy doing it but I wasn't sure where exactly to start. Thank you.
Happy to help!
Thanks for sharing. I’m sure subscribing to your channel will help me when I decide to develop my 36 acre property.
Wow! First time watching ANY of your videos. Subbed right away! Good job, man!!!
Much appreciated! Thanks for being here
Thank you man.
New sub! Great video 👍🏽 Thanks for sharing
Thanks for being here!
Amazing informational video, definitely had to become a subscriber
Great! Glad it was helpful and thank you
Thanks for sharing this information
Great video,thank you for sharing.
Great advice sir. I am planning on getting started next year. I'm going to start making compost this year
You can do it!
Would I be out of line to possibly ask if you might provide some insights to a few of your wholesale sources? Thank you
There are a number of reasons why I don't just put my wholesale sources out there. I do occasionally mention them here and there in the videos though. That said, the little segment in this video tells you exactly how to find them. Google + a little creativity and thought in your searching will find them. I do try to be as helpful as possible though and may, at some point, figure out a way to get more wholesale sources out there. Thanks for asking - I get asked something like this more than any other single question.
Nursery business- innovative idea❤
Excellent advice. Thanks!
Thanks for the info. I'm thinking of starting a native plant nursery that works with other native plant organizations in my area. There's a serious lack of knowledge and resources where i live.
Really informative video. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I look forward to learning more from you. Subscribed 💪
Many thanks!
I have been looking at green houses this year.
Thanks for the videos. Where do you buy wholesale plants and seeds? God bless
Been there done that and just about starved to death had all my licenses bought liners and grow them up. I biggest problem was with nurseries and other plant vendors, constantly reducing the price to beat mine or selling to the public wholesale
This is what I was thinking; how does anyone compete with big box stores and nurseries?
a note from my background in fabric sales...
obviously very few places that sell, for example, hydrangeas at retail... will be interested in helping you order wholesale hydrangeas, BUT... someplace that does purely vegetables or otherwise is NOT thinking of you as competition? might be willing to let you piggy back your wholesale order on theirs.
i dont KNOW that, but in fabric... i was often able to get wholesale ribbon orders in with a quilt shop (they didnt carry ribbon) back before i was ordering enough to get my own order in
Definately look around. Last year I got a bunch someone had sitting by road free!
I’m 65. I just subscribed. I own an acre in Louisiana and it is just mowed grass right now. We get good rains and good sun. Seems as though anything can grow here. I’m thinking “why not invest $1000 in my acre?” And see what I can produce for income out of it. I’ll be reducing my own carbon footprint (I think) and while that’s not the goal at all it is kinda cool. But really I want the “hobby” of puttering and I like the idea of getting my hands into soil. Plus when I retire I could just “leave it” while I travel and pay a neighborhood kid to come water it or simply set up timer sprinklers. It is a cool idea to grow stuff. I’d be interested in your notion on a couple things. First is potted plants vs potted trees? I’m talking like landscape trees. Do you have an opinion on profitability of one type vs the other? My wife loves bamboo (she grew up in a part of the world where it grows native). I wonder about being a bamboo plant/tree nursery and wonder your opinion.
As I said I subscribed. I want to learn more as the subject interests me a lot. I’m just wasting square feet of land today and it would be pretty nice looking to go out back and see a small field of “my buddies” gently swaying in the wind!
I would grow trees! Dogwoods, crapemyrtles, flowering cherries, etc. And shrubs. Truth is you can't go wrong with either. I don't know enough about bamboo to comment, I just know how invasive it is so I stay away from it... but, there are good uses for it. Cool thing is you have nothing to lose by trying. Sounds like you have some money to give it a try with and the space and resources to give it a go. So - go!!
Very informative, useful tips. Thanks for your advices
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you much for sharing this video
I'm curious what is the biggest selling plant in the nursery business? My guess is the green giant arborvitaes or any arborvitaes and cypress or evergreen. As many people are thinking of giving themselves privacy screening since most yards people don't have much privacy from a small yard with a lot of building going on.
Certainly it's one of the biggest. Would be hard to say because it's going to vary A LOT by region. But the evergreen screening trees are a HUGE thing right now. Hydrangeas always will be too.
@@savvydirtfarmer Funny I had a feeling the other big seller might be something like the hydrangeas. 😆 I just know enough about plants and I love privacy so those arborvitaes would be what I spend the most on but with that said, I can propagate my own from cuttings to save a ton of money.
I'm looking for your potting soil recipe. Pine bark, but what else? Is there another video on this topic? Thank you for all the great information!
THANK YOU!!! Thank you so much for all of this! This is wonderful information!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video !! Thanks for sharing ❤
Great video!
Love the content provided but boy that adorable puppy in the background stole the show for me!
She weights about 65 lbs now, and she is a keeper! Her name is Penny.
The hardest part is convincing your HOA that having a nursery in your backyard is no big deal. :)
But having a useless lawn is always fine with these people. Makes no sense.
Overall, this info is solid and I really enjoyed the video. Skipping over some key startup costs prevents this from actually being a practical budget. I'm thinking about things like IPM costs, Irrigation costs, and structural costs. Obtaining pots, soil, license, and fertilizer is all good info though.
IPM - don't know what that is. Irrigation? For me, it's negligible. My water bill never changes. Structure? To start out, as show here, this is all that's needed.
@@savvydirtfarmer Thanks for the reply! I checked out your nursery channel and it looks awesome.
IPM is just integrated pest management. Basic sprays or pathogen controls throughout the season. It can be things such as companion planting as well that help eliminate problems.
I've found issues crop up that add random expenses during the start up phase before the first sale it is a large reason people tend to fail starting up.
Ty for this info
Seems tho the area I live has become saturated with backyard growers
And sales are hard to get
It would be hard to believe there isn't some kind of plants you can grow that you couldn't do great with, regardless of what is around you, your population, etc. Just start growing some plants and posting them for sale. You'll likely be pleasantly surprised. But one thing is certain: if you don't try, you'll never know. Don't be defeated before you even start.
Tysm!
I'm propagating desirable medicinal plants and exotic trees
These things speak to me
Being on the rare side
Should be better received
Very nice and informative video thank you for taking the time to do it! Wish you all the success!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm 16 and want to start a flower business by selling sunflowers in pots at markets. Any tips.
Yes, try it and see what happens! This is a great career path for a young person to start on. By the time you're 25, you can make and save enough money to start most any business you like if you do it right... and you can!
@@savvydirtfarmer Thanks and how much would one sunflower seed in a pot sell for
@@Xtreme_Outdoors no idea… size, your market, your location all factor in. A nice, full trade 1 potted plant goes for about $7-$10 where I live
@@savvydirtfarmer 👍
With regard to propagating plants, what is your advice regarding acquiring plants that either are patented or not patented? It seems many commercial nurseries these days are selling patented varieties.
I buy my plants, typically, from wholesalers who carry lots of unpatented plants. If they are patented, that should be noted on their availability lists. Commercial nurseries have SO MANY patented plants. Yes, they advance the nursery trade. Yes, I think they are a good thing. But the reason they sell them is because of marketing and money. They make more on them. Period. Higher prices. Shoppers see the shiny branded pots and they'll pay whatever. It's really a crazy deal.
Thanks for the encouragement about the nursery inspection, I have been thinking about going for it... but, that part intimidated me. lol
Yep. It's a big unknown, but it's a straightforward thing and their job is to help.
Any suggestions for a greenhouse? I am looking for one that is economical and sturdy. Plan to use it for sowing seeds next year.
No, but I’ll be looking to build or buy one in the next year or so… lot to learn there.
you can go to your local grocery store and get the buckets they send the flowers in
This is helpful to me! Thank you for the info and thoughts.
Glad it was helpful!
That was an excellent and very helpful video. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
Great info. I take it “Miracle Gro” is one of the types of “fast release” fertilizers that you recommend NOT to use?
Miracle Grow is not a good way to fertilize potted plants.