Time to find that fall wholesale supplier pumpkin and straw bales and corn stalks to increase your diversity this fall. Grow grow grow in expansion and ideas. Maybe even firewood sales? Just trying to help. Great job Odem family. People always come back to see your new inventory whatever it may be.
Awesome video. I started my nursery this year back in late March. Ive been growing for 8 years but never thought to sell plants. As of March I’ve made 600 + bucks 😊😊. All from my garden. Thank you for all your videos. They’re super informative. 👍🏾 👍🏾. Thank you all the way from Kansas City Mo
Congratulations to the whole family on having a great season at the nursery. If I lived closer I would have been there and taken some of those plants off your hands. I really like all the videos and have learned so many things over the past couple years. Hope Casey is feeling better soon, summer colds are no fun. Take care and have a great weekend!!
I'm so glad you did so well I know the work is not over with now it's the time to start the plants for the next season. You all have done such a great job with your nursery I know you have to be very proud of each other.
Hello! Thank you for sharing your videos; I consider them as must-see every week and they have inspired me to start down a similar path. How have you gotten along with the Square POS system? Any compliants/would you recommend? Maybe a topic for a future video or a question for a Q&A video (which is a video style i don't think you have tried yet). Just a suggestion.
Y’all are doing so well!! I would love to hear the story about how you chose the location for your nursery! Maybe you’ve already explained this and if so I apologize. You moved your family out of state and bought a home and then started your nursery on that property right? Surely it was tough to balance the needs of your family and also the needs of your business when choosing a location….? But you seem to have done a wonderful job at it!
😢 I always hate to see the closing of the season, but I’m sure the Contant in between will be just fabulous. You need a break you and the family take a nice Vacay.
So happy that your end of spring sale went well!! You always have beautiful well-maintained plants, even at the end of the season. I have always wondered about pricing and forget to ask. Why do you price at for example 1.97 instead of 2.00. For us at a roadside stand honor system, it is easier for customers to drop a few bucks into the box and not require change. If it is an item I need to pay tax on, it just comes out of my price. Just curious. Thanks for all your helpful videos!
Most of our business is done by card, so change isn't an issue. Tax? The customer is paying the tax, not me. My prices are too low as it is to eat even more in tax. The .97 thing? Wal Mart does it. Lowes does it. And the psychology behind it is real. I've done enough reading on the psychology of pricing to know that people think a $7.97 plant is really a $7 plant, and therefore buy more over a long period of time. Also, it makes me different from 20 other nurseries in my area... I like being "The $7.97 plant guy," or whatever my prices move to.
Again, thanks again for sharing your story. With your experiences coupled with my own, I have learned a lot. I have to say that the most important/valuable lesson that I have learned is that it’s ok if something doesn’t sell and has to be composted…. That sounds really trivial! It took a lot time to understand this without it feeling like a mistake/failure. Last year I let that dread of having too many cost me this year and possibly next season… You said that you cut your loropetalums back after repotting. Were you able to use those cuttings for rooting? Or were they a patented variety? Thanks again! God Bless!
I did not use the cuttings. I have about 200 lorapetalum plugs to pot right now anyway and didn't need them. Also, the ones I cut back were very root bound and the branches were hard and woody - not good cutting material.
haven't had many bug issues. Fire ants occasionally. When I dig into them, I stir them up good, then stir them up again in a day or two. They move away
Just read up on .99 pricing and why businesses do it. Yeah, I know it's weird. But, it's an effective pricing strategy. It's been researched and tested a TON.
Hi I need one advise from you? I have lot of hosta potted them in 4” pot for sale, left out hostas can I overwinter them in a pot? Or do I need to plant them in the ground
@@SowmyaHegde-gk8xu only if we go through a very long dry spell, which is uncommon in winter. they use virtually no water in winter, and lose very little to evaporation.
Sooo.... I see your gonna be a part time, Grant farmer!! We got farmers down here who cry about not making money but don't open unless it's cool and sunny. Do you think landscaping stops cause it's hot??? If you close a nursery cause it's too hot your telling us you just don't care!! So I just don't care, next week I'll be selling my plants & working!!
To address your concerns... 1) I don't know what a grant farmer is. 2) I'm sorry you have farmers "down there" who are a.) crying, and b.) not making money. 3) I don't know about landscaping. I run a nursery. 4) I just don't care about what? My customers would disagree with your statement. 5) If you "just don't care," then do exactly as you said... sell your plants and work. Sounds like you've got a great plan! Good day to you.
This is the part that I love about doing your own business.. If you know your needs (money, family time or personal time), you can adjust your business accordingly. Too many try to grow too fast and fizzle out. Kudos to Craig for tailoring his business to his personal needs and making it work!
Thank you. I also know that my time propagating, potting, and otherwise preparing or fall sales is more valuable than my tending to a nursery with 1 or 2 customers a day. "Tailoring business to personal needs" is a pretty dang important thing to do.
Time to find that fall wholesale supplier pumpkin and straw bales and corn stalks to increase your diversity this fall. Grow grow grow in expansion and ideas. Maybe even firewood sales? Just trying to help. Great job Odem family. People always come back to see your new inventory whatever it may be.
Even your “bad” plants look pretty good for clearance items. I’d be thrilled to find plants like that on sale!
Yeah… they’re not, but they aren’t great. I just don’t want to send plants home with people and have the plants die tomorrow
Awesome video. I started my nursery this year back in late March. Ive been growing for 8 years but never thought to sell plants. As of March I’ve made 600 + bucks 😊😊. All from my garden. Thank you for all your videos. They’re super informative. 👍🏾 👍🏾. Thank you all the way from Kansas City Mo
That's great work! Keep it up.
Glad to see you are able to sell so much I’m in my way to a last day nursery’s sale at 10:09 😂
Y’all had a great season! Keep on growing!
Congratulations to the whole family on having a great season at the nursery. If I lived closer I would have been there and taken some of those plants off your hands. I really like all the videos and have learned so many things over the past couple years. Hope Casey is feeling better soon, summer colds are no fun. Take care and have a great weekend!!
Yes, thank you! This cold / upper respiratory has hit all of us. It's pretty miserable. Nothing we won't get over... but quite the downer in summer.
Try garlic to open the lungs and heal them
Still looks great... thank you for sharing. Blessings ❤
thank you! Still working at it.
I wish I lived closer! You have beautiful plants left that I’d love to have. Good luck on your sale!
Great job guys, wished I lived closer I’d been there buying some plants for myself.
Would have been glad to have you!
I'm so glad you did so well I know the work is not over with now it's the time to start the plants for the next season. You all have done such a great job with your nursery I know you have to be very proud of each other.
Hello! Thank you for sharing your videos; I consider them as must-see every week and they have inspired me to start down a similar path.
How have you gotten along with the Square POS system? Any compliants/would you recommend? Maybe a topic for a future video or a question for a Q&A video (which is a video style i don't think you have tried yet). Just a suggestion.
Y’all are doing so well!! I would love to hear the story about how you chose the location for your nursery! Maybe you’ve already explained this and if so I apologize. You moved your family out of state and bought a home and then started your nursery on that property right? Surely it was tough to balance the needs of your family and also the needs of your business when choosing a location….? But you seem to have done a wonderful job at it!
Congratulations! Great end to the Spring season!
right on savvy glad you made good money one nursery man to another
😢 I always hate to see the closing of the season, but I’m sure the Contant in between will be just fabulous. You need a break you and the family take a nice Vacay.
thank you!
Man, I would have loved that plant sale!
A LOT of people surely did!
So happy that your end of spring sale went well!! You always have beautiful well-maintained plants, even at the end of the season. I have always wondered about pricing and forget to ask. Why do you price at for example 1.97 instead of 2.00. For us at a roadside stand honor system, it is easier for customers to drop a few bucks into the box and not require change. If it is an item I need to pay tax on, it just comes out of my price. Just curious. Thanks for all your helpful videos!
Most of our business is done by card, so change isn't an issue. Tax? The customer is paying the tax, not me. My prices are too low as it is to eat even more in tax. The .97 thing? Wal Mart does it. Lowes does it. And the psychology behind it is real. I've done enough reading on the psychology of pricing to know that people think a $7.97 plant is really a $7 plant, and therefore buy more over a long period of time. Also, it makes me different from 20 other nurseries in my area... I like being "The $7.97 plant guy," or whatever my prices move to.
Those humming bird mint look so good. How did you water those? Misting? Love love your videos ❤
Just the sprinkler, like everything else I grow.
@@savvydirtfarmer awesome thank you.
Have any white crepe myrtle for sale?
Where do you get the plant identification labels? Thank you for sharing your journey.
The ones with pictures? I make them.
@@savvydirtfarmer Thank you. I'll do that!
Again, thanks again for sharing your story. With your experiences coupled with my own, I have learned a lot. I have to say that the most important/valuable lesson that I have learned is that it’s ok if something doesn’t sell and has to be composted…. That sounds really trivial! It took a lot time to understand this without it feeling like a mistake/failure. Last year I let that dread of having too many cost me this year and possibly next season…
You said that you cut your loropetalums back after repotting. Were you able to use those cuttings for rooting? Or were they a patented variety? Thanks again! God Bless!
I did not use the cuttings. I have about 200 lorapetalum plugs to pot right now anyway and didn't need them. Also, the ones I cut back were very root bound and the branches were hard and woody - not good cutting material.
I have a question about your potting mix? You store it on the ground, right? How do you keep the bugs out?
haven't had many bug issues. Fire ants occasionally. When I dig into them, I stir them up good, then stir them up again in a day or two. They move away
@savvydirtfarmer I got worms, millipedes, and ants in my mix. Any advice for getting rid of that??
What your business concept to 3.97 per plant.I noticed with a lot of your prices they end in .97. Any tip you could give me?
Just read up on .99 pricing and why businesses do it. Yeah, I know it's weird. But, it's an effective pricing strategy. It's been researched and tested a TON.
Hi I need one advise from you? I have lot of hosta potted them in 4” pot for sale, left out hostas can I overwinter them in a pot? Or do I need to plant them in the ground
I overwinter mine in pots with no problems
@@savvydirtfarmer thanks for your quick response, appreciated!
@@savvydirtfarmer do you water them in the winter?
@@SowmyaHegde-gk8xu only if we go through a very long dry spell, which is uncommon in winter. they use virtually no water in winter, and lose very little to evaporation.
What town is your nursery in?
NW Alabama, Florence.
@@savvydirtfarmer Awesome! I’m in southwest Tenn. Hopefully I can visit sometime
@@christiebetts-fi7qj that would be great! We see RUclips viewers all the time. Memphis area?
@@savvydirtfarmer Henderson, below Jackson
@@christiebetts-fi7qj I used to live in Paris. I know your location pretty well. Good to have a viewer nearby.
Sooo.... I see your gonna be a part time, Grant farmer!! We got farmers down here who cry about not making money but don't open unless it's cool and sunny. Do you think landscaping stops cause it's hot??? If you close a nursery cause it's too hot your telling us you just don't care!! So I just don't care, next week I'll be selling my plants & working!!
To address your concerns...
1) I don't know what a grant farmer is.
2) I'm sorry you have farmers "down there" who are a.) crying, and b.) not making money.
3) I don't know about landscaping. I run a nursery.
4) I just don't care about what? My customers would disagree with your statement.
5) If you "just don't care," then do exactly as you said... sell your plants and work.
Sounds like you've got a great plan! Good day to you.
This is the part that I love about doing your own business.. If you know your needs (money, family time or personal time), you can adjust your business accordingly. Too many try to grow too fast and fizzle out. Kudos to Craig for tailoring his business to his personal needs and making it work!
Thank you. I also know that my time propagating, potting, and otherwise preparing or fall sales is more valuable than my tending to a nursery with 1 or 2 customers a day. "Tailoring business to personal needs" is a pretty dang important thing to do.
Up here(?) lots of nurseries close after the main planting season is over.
Some reopen in the fall, others offer strictly spring sales.