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Comments: Whether you dwell in small or big town, it does not matter, if you have a small area in your backyard. Well, it should be around 1/20 acre of land. The size of the area is about 30 feet by 40 feet or less. This piece of land you can use for planting and make money selling those home grown plants.
Now awaits the surprise! You cannot imagine how many plants you can grow in that land and what amount of money you can make selling them! You dwell in an apartment; don’t have a backyard of your own. Don’t lose your heart, find someone who has. Take the portion on rent or you can go for a joint venture with the owner.
You must be thinking if there is market for small plants! The market is vast rather astounding, it is around 4 billion dollars last year. The demand is increasing even during this recessionary period. And you know as a small grower you have added advantage over the large nurseries, because you have lesser overheads. In fact as a backyard grower you overhead will be almost zero.
Now, as a small town dweller you may think in your town how are you going to find buyers. Not the individual buyers you need to look for, in fact the large scale growers are the biggest buyers. They sell in bulk; even they cannot grow those many. So they buy wherever they find them. You can pick and pack them in card board box and ship them to anywhere.
You can routinely plant like Japanese Maple or other flowering shrubs. People are impatient to plant them, they like to get them in pot and see them grow. So you plant, when grown, pot them and sell either to individual buyers of large buyers. The margin is quite high as You buy Japanese Maple seedlings for 50-75 cents, pot them and sell at a price not lesser than $4.75-$5! Keep the cutting from them for your next year’s crops, so you save in terms of seedlings next year.
You know, backyard growers find the biggest buyers are the larger nurseries. Because they can buy cheaper from you than growing on their own due to the overheads. And that is your plus point since you do not have any overhead or very little overheads.
Very little investment you need to make but the rewards are high. Of course it is nothing like get-rich-quick program but a healthy way to make money as many has done. If You need more information, you can find the information on web.