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,...
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...
Mike McGroarty’s Backyard Cash Machine Report for only Seven Dollars.
Why am I offering this report for only $7.00? Great question. Here’s the deal. I am doing everything in my power to get people involved in the business of growing and selling small plants at home with as little financial commitment on their part as possible. The plant growing, plant loving world needs more...
Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick
As many of you know I’m a big fan of the crazy looking plant Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick. The true beauty of this plant is it’s crazy contorted branches that can’t grow straight if they tried. Two years ago we planted hundreds of these in nursery and last week we dug them all. Some...
How to Ruin a Japanese Maple Tree.
Why would I Write a Blog Posting about Ruining a Japanese Maple? Because people do it all the time unintentionally. Here’s the deal; “You only know what you know.” That includes me. So my job here is to make sure that all of my followers/subscribers learn things that I know and they may not....
Buying Plants at Wholesale Prices.
Members of the Trade Never Pay Retail Prices for Plants. Wholesale Rooted Cuttings and Liners. What most people don’t realize that as a member of the trade, nurseryman, landscaper, garden center, or Backyard Grower, you are entitled to buy plants on the wholesale market. And the prices are remarkably lower, for a lot of...
Are Hybrid Plants Better?
Nature Intended for Plants to Reproduce by Means of Sexual Reproduction. Along time ago when the earth was green (stole that line from the Irish Rovers song “The Unicorn”) new plants were born. Chance seedlings that just popped up. Probably a tad more complicated than that but for the sake of simplicity we’ll just...
Heirloom Seeds, are they Really Better?
Let’s start with . . . what exactly is a Heirloom seed? Heirloom seeds come from plants that are really old like me, even older really. I was born in 1956, most or all heirloom seeds come from plants that were being actively grown prior to 1951. Why 1951? What’s so significant about that? ...
Protecting Plants from Frost
As a gardener there are a lot of things that you can do to protect your flowering shrubs and fruit bearing trees and shrubs from frost damage in the early spring. Of course the size of the plants determines how much you can do and be successful. Frost is the quiet enemy that looks...
