How to Grow Miniature Landscape Plants on a Twenty-Fifth of an Acre or Less for Profit at Home

How to Grow Miniature Landscape Plants on a Twenty-Fifth of an Acre or Less for Profit at Home

No matter how big or tiny your town is, if you have even a little backyard space available, you can turn your plants into cash. In fact, a quarter of an acre can yield respectable profits. An area measuring approximately 30 by 40 feet.

 

You won't believe how much money you can make and how many plants you can pack in that tiny space. People who live in apartments can also do this! If you're an apartment dweller interested in experiencing firsthand the joys of tending a small nursery, look for someone willing to share their land, rent you a plot, or work with you on a joint venture.

 

Can tiny plants actually find an audience? Demand is on the rise, and the market was worth over $4 billion last year. Because larger nurseries have such expensive overhead, you, the little grower, have a huge leg up. You may expect very little from a backyard gardener.

You may be wondering, "How many plants can I actually sell from my little town in the country?"

Numerous thousands, if desired. The biggest purchasers of little plants in the nation are huge wholesale growers, which is something that most people are unaware of. Because of their high demand, they purchase plants from anywhere they can get their hands on them, as they cannot meet their own production demands. All you have to do is put them in a cardboard box and send them on your way.

 

Every time I go plant shopping, I always order a tonne of tiny plants and have them sent thousands of kilometres to my home. If I can grow my own plants, why should I bother buying them? One of the reasons is that I dislike growing Japanese maples from seed and am so impatient. Buying Japanese maple seedlings is as easy as 75 cents, and then I only need to plant them and wait for them to grow.

 

In addition, I often purchase blooming bushes in bulk with the intention of eventually starting my own propagation business. Every year, I plant them, buy them for 50 cents, and then sell them for $4.97. In the meantime, though, I harvest cuttings to use as seed for the following year's harvest. Which means I won't have to buy that specific flavour ever again.

For the same reasons, a lot of wholesale nurseries are continuously on the lookout for cheap little plants. Their joy is palpable when they come across backyard growers like you, because they know they can get what they need from you at a lower price than from a big nursery.

 

You don't need to charge more for your plants since you don't have to pay for buildings, hundreds of acres of land, trucks, tractors, and dozens of people. Your overhead is practically nonexistent.

In order to launch, how much capital is required? Very few. Just root some cuttings, and you'll be good to go! I would venture to say that even very young toddlers can learn and successfully implement a number of simple plant-growing procedures.

 

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You don't actually need much space to begin, but something around the size of a picnic table will do. No kidding. I can get 100–150 cuttings per 12” by 15” flat, which is the ideal size for rooting my cuttings. You should have no trouble rooting thousands of cuttings in an area no bigger than a picnic table.

So, you want to know something? They are valuable and ready to be sold the moment they take root! That's awesome, right? About fifty cents is the going rate for a rooted clipping. With 1500 cuts priced at 50 cents each, we have a total of $750! Holy cow! That ought to get things moving.

However, you can prolong the process of selling plants for 50 cents until they reach a larger size and fetch a higher price. What I do is plant them in little pots and sell them for $4.97 apiece. I do it all from my driveway.

From our driveway, we sold plants worth over $25,000 this spring at a price of $4.97 each. A customer of mine who purchased my e-book "Backyard Nursery" had a plant sale this spring and made $2,800 in the first weekend. Her joy knew no bounds! Plants, of course, fetched substantially higher prices. Japanese red maples, which I grew for a while, were a huge hit when we sold them for $45 apiece.

 

If you are looking for a home business opportunity that is both entertaining and lucrative, look no further. The importance of hard work, budgeting, and developing lifelong skills are among the many lessons my children have received from me. All they had to do to get some additional cash whenever they wanted it was sneak out the back door and work.

 

There is minimal investment required to begin, and the potential returns are substantial. Although there is no "get rich quick" scheme, many people have found success in the nursery industry. Determination and effort are all that's needed. It can be picked up on the go. You won't believe how easy it is.