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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. |
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 the exotic 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 a
couple of 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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