How to Make Money Growing

[Pages:21]How to Make Money Growing

Small Plants at Home

By: Mike McGroarty Copyright ? 2013

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You Can Make Money at Home!

Small plants are selling like crazy in this economy because people are staying home and doing more in their yards. You can do this! Growing small plants in your backyard is a great way to prepare for retirement, supplement your retirement income, or make extra money as you need it. It's easy, it's relaxing, it's enjoyable and you can do it!

There is something magical about being able to root cuttings like these. My lifetime love affair with plants started out as more of a rocky relationship! I was only 16 years old just looking for a part-time job when I landed a gig in large wholesale nursery. Slowly but surely I learned a great deal about plants and became somewhat of an unwilling expert. Eventually I fell in love with plants of all kinds and no matter what happened in my life, it always seemed to be plants that put me back on track.

My pursuit of the American dream turned into a bloody nightmare!

I dreamed of owning my own business. So in 1979 I took the plunge and went into business for myself. In just weeks my new landscaping business was booming. Six months later the U.S. economy was a train wreck. Home interest rates shot up to 14%, houses weren't selling, cars weren't selling, Chrysler had to beg for money from President Regan just to stay in business. Unemployment was at an all time high. My business was failing. I was in trouble. I owed the I.R.S. money and they were growing impatient. Going broke is usually a slow painful process because you kick and fight with everything you have in you to make it work. And I kicked and fought for four long years, then I hit . . .

The Low Point in My Life

I came home from work one day and Pam was not happy. The phone was ringing and several others had already called. All the checks I had written in past week were bouncing. I had never written bad checks so I knew something was up. I went to the post office to check my mail, and sure enough, the I.R.S. had cleaned out all of my bank accounts. Pam's checking account, my businesses account and they even took the $1.79 that we had in our savings account. Can you believe that? We had a whopping buck seventy nine in savings and they took that too. I was devastated.

"My Net Worth after the IRS Wiped me Out"

The next morning I just wanted to go somewhere and think. I wanted a cup of coffee but all I had in my pocket was 17?. Then I remember that behind the house there were two eight packs of returnable Pepsi bottles.

So I grabbed the pop bottles and headed to a store where nobody knew me. I just wanted to cash them in so I could get a cup of coffee and try and figure out where to go from here.

The guy at the store started giving me a hard time because I wasn't buying anything. Finally he handed over the $1.60 after I was completely humiliated.

I went to the coffee shop and began to ponder how serious my dilemma was. Wife, baby, no job, no money, it was almost winter, no landscape jobs, total net worth 16 pop bottles and I just spent most of that. When suddenly it dawned on me . . . I had plants!

I had planted 1,000 Forsythia Lynnwood Gold in the field behind our house and they were now about 4 feet tall. I bought them as rooted cuttings for 15? each, but now they were worth much more.

I knew they were worth about $6.00 each wholesale, but I was desperate and needed to sell them quickly. I called a friend that was a buyer for a large garden center. He came over, looked at the plants, then wrote me a check for $1,200 on the spot.

Plants.

In my darkest hour, it would be plants that would give me hope.

One minute my net worth was less than 16 returnable pop bottles, minutes later I was holding in my hand $1,200. At that moment I knew that my future was in the plant business.

I had only given my friend Jack $150 for those 1,000 cuttings and I sold them for $1,200 in the ground. I didn't even have to dig them. I sold them right in the ground!

So here we are all these years later and I am still using plants to build my personal wealth and so should you. It's amazing how easy it is to sell small plants.

And growing small plants at home is as easy as taking cuttings, rooting them

and selling them.

You can sell them as rooted cuttings just weeks after you root them, or you can grow them for a while and sell them for a lot more money. It costs you almost nothing to grow a plant. With a plastic pot and potting soil your cost to grow a plant is about 30?.

Can you believe that? 30? and you sell them for $4.97 each!

And you can grow thousands of them!

This is easy to do, it's easy to get started, and the cost of getting started is really, really low compared to just about any other home based business you could consider.

This could change your life. It sure has mine!

Growing small plants is fun, it's easy, it's relaxing and it is very rewarding. And it can be very, very profitable. People will buy the plants you grow!

That's one of the things that many of my customers are most concerned about. "Will people really buy the plants I grow?" Yes they will! People love plants and they really like buying small plants from people like you and I.

They really don't like buying from the big box stores. Actually they hate buying from the big box stores. They'd much rather buy from someone like you. Someone they can relate to, someone locally who grows their plants with tender, loving care.

Once they see what you are doing in your backyard they will be envious and in awe of you.

Sound hoky? It's not. People really do want locally grown plants and they want to buy them from real people.

You can do this! People will jump at the chance to buy your plants.

I've got customers all over the United States, Canada, the UK and other countries selling thousands and thousands of dollars worth of their home grown plants and they are having an absolute blast.

I know what you're thinking; "Mike, I've got Walmart, Kmart, Home Depot, Lowes and several garden centers in my town."

Doesn't matter.

So do I and I've sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of my plants and I'm growing more as I write this. I'm surrounded by wholesale nurseries who grow plants by the tens of thousands. Doesn't matter. I still have no problem selling what I grow and I'll show you how to do the same thing.

Listen, I've been doing this most of my life. I know more about the Backyard Nursery Business that anybody you'll find. I am without a doubt, the world renowned expert when it comes to starting and operating a Backyard Nursery.

For years and years I grew small plants in my backyard on just 1/20th of an acre. Like I said you don't need much room at all. I used to sell plants from my driveway and all of my plants were priced at just $4.97 each. We sold thousands of them!

One year we sold $25,879 worth of plants in a little over 4 weeks!

And every single plant was priced at $4.97.

Is that typical? No, it's not typical. It took me a while to build up to that big sale. But that's the beauty of this. You start small, sell what you grow, grow some more and sell those.

I haven't had one of those crazy plant sales in a number of years, I now grow for the wholesale market. But they were fun! It was literally a plant buying frenzy.

These days I'm using my nursery to build some personal wealth for Pam and I. I tried the stock market and that was disastrous! So I went back to what I know best. Plants.

Pam and I are both about 56 years old. She's a few months younger than me. My goal is to have at least $250,000, maybe $400,000 worth of plants in my nursery over the next few years. That's my retirement nest egg. When it's time to sell them it's like digging up money!

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