Grow garden
cuttings into a money tree
Nature is your best friend when you turn your
passion for gardening into a source of extra money.
And it is so simple.
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Take cuttings from special plants in your
garden and plant them in small plastic
pots--like the ones you see in the local
garden center. Then start seeds in other
very small pots--again like at the garden
center. Then water and wait.
Mother Nature should do her work within a
few weeks. The cuttings will have taken
root and the seeds should have sprouted to
produce seedlings.
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Then hold a "garden sale" on your driveway.
Post signs around your neighborhood. List your
garden sale online. Post notices about it on
community bulletin boards. And at the end of the
day, pocket the money you made and move any unsold pots
into your back yard to continue growing until you hold
your next garden sale.
Selling rare and unusual plants
We recently spoke with a man at the local farmer's
market who had trimmed a tropical Plumeria tree in his
back garden and put the ends of the trimmed branches
into big plastic pots filled with rich potting
soil. Several months later, when he was confident
the cuttings had taken root, he held a garden sale on
his driveway based on one ad on Craigs List. And
he earned over two thousand dollars over two weekends.
A few weeks later he showed up at one of our local
farmers' market with the few remaining potted Plumeria
and proceeded to sell them in another couple of
weekends.
One of the reasons he was so successful was that
Plumeria trees had just begun making a comeback in
popularity after 50 years of being pretty much ignored.
His Plumeria was also of a rare color, which made it all
the more desirable and allowed him to charge higher
prices.
Cacti and condos - meant for each other
A retired couple sell succulents and cacti in small,
colorful pots at a local open air market for extra
retiree income. Cacti and succulents are
often the plants of choice with apartment and condo
owners because they grow very slowly and can be ignored
for weeks without shriveling up and dying.
And as with the other garden sale ideas on this page,
Mother Nature does most of the work in producing the
products you sell. You just harvest the profits.
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