Wheelbarrow Review, Which Wheelbarrow Should You or I Buy?
Wheelbarrows! Why so many options? Why can’t it be simple? One wheel? Two wheels? Plastic tub? Metal tub? Is a two wheeled garden cart better? You Can Get Paid for Growing and Selling Small Plants from Home. Wheel Barrow Logic from Mike McGroarty. Here’s my take on wheelbarrows, from a guy that has...
How to Sell the Plants that You Grow.
Selling the plants that you grow is actually quite easy because people love plants. They love to buy them, they love to plant them and they love looking at them. This is How You Make Up to $93.60 per Square Foot Right in Your Own Backyard. How do I know this? 1. I am...
Growing, Propagating and Caring for Exbury Deciduous Azaleas.
The not so popular, not so well known member of the Azalea family are Exbury Azaleas which are deciduous, which means that they are not evergreens. Many people don’t consider Azaleas evergreens because they don’t have needles, but the most popular, the most readily available Azaleas are Evergreen Azaleas. They are red, white, pink...
Backyard Landscaping Ideas, what plants to use where.
A few days ago I gave you some landscape design strategies in this post, and today I have a few more ideas for you. At the nursery I decided to dig out an area where we could set our small pots. Great idea, but that left me with a mountain of dirt that you...
Landscaping Ideas. What Plant Goes Where in the Landscape?
What does it take to create a nice, attractive landscape planting? What is the number one thing that many people do wrong? The secret to an attractive landscape design is you have to be bold and daring. Take off your “conservative” hat and toss it in the fire pit! What do most people do...
Colorful and Flowering Plants to Brighten Up Your Yard in the Early Spring
Your yard should have a sequence of color starting in spring and taking you on a journey of color and joy throughout the year. I’m going to start by showing you a few things that will really wake up your yard in early spring. Lynnwood Gold Forsythia. A lot of people don’t like Forsythia,...
Mondays with Mike McGroarty at Mike’s Plant Farm, 4850 North Ridge Road, Perry, Ohio 44081
Welcome to Mondays with Mike McGroarty. I started doing these videos for my Backyard Growers, but realized that a lot of other people will like them as well. This is a bit of a documentary of what we we have going on at Mike’s Plant Farm here in wonderful Perry, Ohio. Mondays with Mike,...
How to Make Your Own Sprinklers on Stand Pipes.
Last week I realized that I need a couple of portable sprinklers that I could easily move around but they had to be high enough to clear small plants so I would get good coverage. Those tripod sprinklers that you can buy are nice but they are expensive, and I had some that were...
Snow Damaged, Hoop House, Greenhouse, High Tunnel.
A lot of our members want greenhouses, even though you can easily do the Backyard Nursery Business with one. I don’t have one. Had one, took it down. Everything I do is without a greenhouse. If I were to do 30,000 or 50,000 Rhododendron cuttings each year for that I’d build a greenhouse. Everything...
How to Propagate Fragrant Viburnum.
There is nothing like the smell of a fragrant viburnum outside your bedroom window or off the end of your porch. As the window blows the fragrance is carried through the yard. There are a number of different fragrant Viburnums but two old time favorites, and the two that are still the best no...
