You are speaking directly to ME in this video lol I wish I would have started a nursery a long time ago. I have been watching your videos for a long time learning to propagate and selling on the marketplace. I want to go bigger and open a nursery. I will be 61 this month and part of me says why are you doing this now?? Because I love it and I want to!!!🌱 Thank you to you and your family for all the encouragement, just love y’all !!! God bless♥️
Great info, Craig. I have been pruning and propagating like crazy the past couple of days - trying to get a jump on next year. Now if I could just get control of those weeds! Your limelight trees look fantastic!!
Great advice. Just started my own nursery about 18 months ago along the CA coast. I've learned some of these same lessons - but with completely different plants. I'm in a large greenhouse and have found that regulating light throughout the year is a challenge. Finding the right soil composition is also something I've had to tweak along the way.
Great video! Agree the nursery business is highly scalable but as you said, you have do some planning. If you plan with the end in mind, you can reach your goals. Even better yet you may find you can greatly increase your goals. It does take time though, but if you didn’t plant it 1-5 years ago, you can’t sell it today.
Great points once again. Year 1 I bought maybe 1 cu yard of bagged potting soil. Last year, I used 10 yards bulk. This year I need 13 yards just for spring!
Another thing to consider is licensing from the state. In Arkansas, I can sell annuals all day without a problem. But when it comes to woody perennials, there are required inspections and restrictions on plant transport, etc. Something to look into.
I am not sure if you were joking about growing milkweed or not. But here in NJ, nurseries charge $18 for a trade gallon-size milkweed. Sometimes the plant is a cultivar, but sometimes it is just the straight species. The milkweeds are tagged as a host for the monarch butterfly and they appear to sell briskly. So if you were joking, you might try throwing some seeds in some pots and make a little cash 🙂
This is just the video I needed to keep me motivated. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed thinking about how much more I need to do to make a successful nursery. Thinking 6 months ahead instead of 5 years ahead is much less daunting. Thank you so much!💚💚💚
Your not kidding you never have enough pots a year ago I bought 120 pots at a good price but shortly I was looking for more. I'm not always sure if a plant can be propagated or in what way I just try a few different ways and whatever works is the way I do it.
I call it either a starter garden center or a ready made garden plants. Some people look for the larger more mature plants and want a ready made garden already done. The nursery can sell either starter plants for the learning gardener or the people who want all the troubles to grow mature plants be done by someone else or to landscapers who need larger plants. Great video as always. Keep up potting as I call it. 👍. Great knowledge. Don't procrastinate for long term when a shorter time is doable. Great advice
Great video and very informative. 👌 Been watching simce June 2022 and have learned ALOT from you and your family. Would have liked to join up this time, but had to make a few future decisions. Opportunity opened to purchase a ready to go small building to display and sell my seed potatoes, onion sets, etc for next Feb 1st year. Hoop house to damp to house those items in February here. Will be able to have a bit of outside shelter right next to my snuggy plastic covered hoop house with cabbage, strawberries and first of the season items. Stepping out to step up for our upcoming 2nd year.👍 I am SO thankful for all you have shared and taught. Blessings to you and your family always 🤗💚
Thanks to your very informative videos, I am about to embark on my own nursery. I live on 6.5 acres outside of Philadelphia and want to put the ground to good use and teach my 4 children a great worth ethic. I have recently taken my first Giant Green cuttings and Sky Pencil Hollies as well. A few more are forthcoming. Can you let me know a good place to pick up the necessary supplies and planters... Thanks for all your very informative videos!
Great! A big part of our nursery is incorporating our kids into what we're doing... it's a great teaching tool! Supplies? Online, I use or have used AMleo.com or greenhousemegastore.com. Look locally for nursery supply places; landscapers oftentimes have huge piles of leftover pots; FB marketplace for free / cheap pots and supplies. Sometimes you find great deals at any of these places.
Some of my plants root straight through my landscape fabric as if it wasn't even there haha. I like the idea of thinking 5 years ahead and doing it in 6 months but my issue is getting the sales to justify everything. It just seems like not enough people want to garden in my area to justify the cost and labour required in my tree nursery to scale it up. I'm in my 5th season and the past two seasons combined have the same sales as what I had in the 3rd season.
This requires a response that is way too long to type here, but if sales are the issue, there are only a few variables to look at... plant quality, pricing, marketing. There's virtually no way people aren't interested in gardening; from coast to coast, desert to mountain, north to south and everywhere in between, there are thriving nurseries, large and small, raking in millions of dollars hand over fist every year.
Not sure if you are already doing. But how about making a stand near your register to sell equipments? 1. soil, you can sell like half a price of a bagged potting soil from big box stores. I think you will still make x2 atleast since you probably buying it bulk for cheap 2. Your trade gallon pots. problem with buying those pots are either you have to buy 100s of them online to get a good price, or buy it overpriced from big box stores. You can just pile them up and list sometihng like 10 pots for $X with a x2 markup. 3. Same with the tarfs, the bows, plastic, etc,..
@@savvydirtfarmer thank you Craig. I need to do more of this and ask people such as yourself. It's confusing trying to look on the internet and reading about repotting. I have a whole bunch of skip and English laurels that were growing in a 1-gallon throughout the summer but a lot of the roots are starting to grow at the bottom. I figured if you could plan them in the ground throughout the year why couldn't you up pot them in the winter. Anyway thank you and I really like your videos it's nice to listen to you your messaging while working around our little farm.
What kind of soil do you have delivered now? Is it just screened top soil? Love your videos. Starting my small nursery in McMinnville TN. Nursery capital!
@savvydirtfarmer I love living here. Some really nice nurseries. I do landscaping and sell so many plants, and been messing around propagating and splitting hostas. Your videos have helped me so much.
Question, I started last year got my first plants in May started out with pretty much just Green Giants. I got about 700 of them and I’m going to grow them out for one more season before I start selling them. Question as they get bigger do you need to space them further apart so they grow in thicker at the bottom?
@@DachiaTheDogMom My system is not what I would call "efficient." It is really overkill. But... water conservation is a non-issue here and my irrigation bill is only really high for 3 months. I'd rather have too much than not enough. It can be done with MUCH lower usage.
Tried to join the nursary you and there are no links for it anywhere. I tried a google search. I tried to join on Facebook yesterday (8/2/24)and as of now now response. I thought I heard you say the dead line was today I assume at midnight?
You are speaking directly to ME in this video lol I wish I would have started a nursery a long time ago. I have been watching your videos for a long time learning to propagate and selling on the marketplace. I want to go bigger and open a nursery. I will be 61 this month and part of me says why are you doing this now?? Because I love it and I want to!!!🌱 Thank you to you and your family for all the encouragement, just love y’all !!! God bless♥️
Very thankful to have you here! All the best to you
Great info, Craig. I have been pruning and propagating like crazy the past couple of days - trying to get a jump on next year. Now if I could just get control of those weeds! Your limelight trees look fantastic!!
Great advice. Just started my own nursery about 18 months ago along the CA coast. I've learned some of these same lessons - but with completely different plants. I'm in a large greenhouse and have found that regulating light throughout the year is a challenge. Finding the right soil composition is also something I've had to tweak along the way.
Great video! Agree the nursery business is highly scalable but as you said, you have do some planning. If you plan with the end in mind, you can reach your goals.
Even better yet you may find you can greatly increase your goals. It does take time though, but if you didn’t plant it 1-5 years ago, you can’t sell it today.
Great points once again. Year 1 I bought maybe 1 cu yard of bagged potting soil. Last year, I used 10 yards bulk. This year I need 13 yards just for spring!
Another thing to consider is licensing from the state. In Arkansas, I can sell annuals all day without a problem. But when it comes to woody perennials, there are required inspections and restrictions on plant transport, etc. Something to look into.
I am not sure if you were joking about growing milkweed or not. But here in NJ, nurseries charge $18 for a trade gallon-size milkweed. Sometimes the plant is a cultivar, but sometimes it is just the straight species. The milkweeds are tagged as a host for the monarch butterfly and they appear to sell briskly. So if you were joking, you might try throwing some seeds in some pots and make a little cash 🙂
Oh no, we grow milkweed. It sells pretty well here.
This is just the video I needed to keep me motivated. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed thinking about how much more I need to do to make a successful nursery. Thinking 6 months ahead instead of 5 years ahead is much less daunting. Thank you so much!💚💚💚
I'm so glad!
Your not kidding you never have enough pots a year ago I bought 120 pots at a good price but shortly I was looking for more. I'm not always sure if a plant can be propagated or in what way I just try a few different ways and whatever works is the way I do it.
I call it either a starter garden center or a ready made garden plants.
Some people look for the larger more mature plants and want a ready made garden already done. The nursery can sell either starter plants for the learning gardener or the people who want all the troubles to grow mature plants be done by someone else or to landscapers who need larger plants. Great video as always. Keep up potting as I call it. 👍. Great knowledge. Don't procrastinate for long term when a shorter time is doable. Great advice
These are all wonderful tips. Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks with us! 😊
Thanks so much for the tips and inspiration. I've doubled my business this year and this video helps me see where i potentially could be.
Great!! Moving in the right direction
❤thank you for sharing your experience
Great video and very informative. 👌 Been watching simce June 2022 and have learned ALOT from you and your family. Would have liked to join up this time, but had to make a few future decisions. Opportunity opened to purchase a ready to go small building to display and sell my seed potatoes, onion sets, etc for next Feb 1st year. Hoop house to damp to house those items in February here. Will be able to have a bit of outside shelter right next to my snuggy plastic covered hoop house with cabbage, strawberries and first of the season items. Stepping out to step up for our upcoming 2nd year.👍 I am SO thankful for all you have shared and taught. Blessings to you and your family always 🤗💚
Great!! You're really getting things rolling.... good for you!
Great pep talk! With very good advice.
Great video! Thank-you for sharing your knowledge, you're a god Man. Saludos y bendiciones!
Thanks to your very informative videos, I am about to embark on my own nursery. I live on 6.5 acres outside of Philadelphia and want to put the ground to good use and teach my 4 children a great worth ethic. I have recently taken my first Giant Green cuttings and Sky Pencil Hollies as well. A few more are forthcoming. Can you let me know a good place to pick up the necessary supplies and planters... Thanks for all your very informative videos!
Great! A big part of our nursery is incorporating our kids into what we're doing... it's a great teaching tool! Supplies? Online, I use or have used AMleo.com or greenhousemegastore.com. Look locally for nursery supply places; landscapers oftentimes have huge piles of leftover pots; FB marketplace for free / cheap pots and supplies. Sometimes you find great deals at any of these places.
Some of my plants root straight through my landscape fabric as if it wasn't even there haha. I like the idea of thinking 5 years ahead and doing it in 6 months but my issue is getting the sales to justify everything. It just seems like not enough people want to garden in my area to justify the cost and labour required in my tree nursery to scale it up. I'm in my 5th season and the past two seasons combined have the same sales as what I had in the 3rd season.
This requires a response that is way too long to type here, but if sales are the issue, there are only a few variables to look at... plant quality, pricing, marketing. There's virtually no way people aren't interested in gardening; from coast to coast, desert to mountain, north to south and everywhere in between, there are thriving nurseries, large and small, raking in millions of dollars hand over fist every year.
Not sure if you are already doing. But how about making a stand near your register to sell equipments?
1. soil, you can sell like half a price of a bagged potting soil from big box stores. I think you will still make x2 atleast since you probably buying it bulk for cheap
2. Your trade gallon pots. problem with buying those pots are either you have to buy 100s of them online to get a good price, or buy it overpriced from big box stores. You can just pile them up and list sometihng like 10 pots for $X with a x2 markup.
3. Same with the tarfs, the bows, plastic, etc,..
Hey Craig thank you for the video. Do you do a lot of repotting during the winter where do you wait for springtime?
Yes... A LOT!!
@@savvydirtfarmer thank you Craig. I need to do more of this and ask people such as yourself. It's confusing trying to look on the internet and reading about repotting. I have a whole bunch of skip and English laurels that were growing in a 1-gallon throughout the summer but a lot of the roots are starting to grow at the bottom. I figured if you could plan them in the ground throughout the year why couldn't you up pot them in the winter. Anyway thank you and I really like your videos it's nice to listen to you your messaging while working around our little farm.
@@6768jordan Sure thing. You should consider joining "Nursery You" when we re-open in a couple of months.
I always plan ahead up to 6 months and somehow it works, in September i start propagation for next season to scale up already.
What do you propagate in September?
Your 1st viewer today
WOOOHOOO!!!!
What kind of soil do you have delivered now? Is it just screened top soil? Love your videos. Starting my small nursery in McMinnville TN. Nursery capital!
mixing my own again. You can find all the potting soil you'll ever need right there in Mcminnville. Never use topsoil in pots!
@savvydirtfarmer I love living here. Some really nice nurseries. I do landscaping and sell so many plants, and been messing around propagating and splitting hostas. Your videos have helped me so much.
@@NarrowPathLawnCare Great! We get over to Mcminnville about twice a year... headed over there in about 2 weeks!
@savvydirtfarmer which nurseries are your go to?
@@NarrowPathLawnCare I don't post those here anymore for a number of reasons.
Question, I started last year got my first plants in May started out with pretty much just Green Giants. I got about 700 of them and I’m going to grow them out for one more season before I start selling them. Question as they get bigger do you need to space them further apart so they grow in thicker at the bottom?
After about 1 year, they will need some space to fill in... sunlight needs to hit the whole tree.
Can you recommend where we can get pots,i will look out for your response
Thank you
2 places I have used amleo.com and greenhousemegastore.com
Just to get an idea, how many gallons of water do you use per day in the summer?
A lot. I haven't even looked this year, and it's more than last because we're watering larger areas. 1,200- 1,500 gal daily I'd guess.
@@savvydirtfarmer Oh that is a lot. I was guesstimating 500... Ok, that;s something to look forward to. Thank you. :)
@@DachiaTheDogMom My system is not what I would call "efficient." It is really overkill. But... water conservation is a non-issue here and my irrigation bill is only really high for 3 months. I'd rather have too much than not enough. It can be done with MUCH lower usage.
I put multiplayer cuttings In pot Can have a full pot I same season I took cutting
soon 3 5 & 7 will be your main sizes
We'll see. It's taking time for everything to grow... but I wouldn't mind that being a LOT of what we're doing.
Tried to join the nursary you and there are no links for it anywhere. I tried a google search. I tried to join on Facebook yesterday (8/2/24)and as of now now response. I thought I heard you say the dead line was today I assume at midnight?
www.nurseryyou.com/
Alternatives to plastic pots.... So far it seems virtually none exist.