I’m still at the selling at my driveway stage but slowly growing. Thanks for your advice and inspiration!❤️🌿

@Lynnhopeacres

5 ай бұрын

You’re doing amazing! 🎉

Another great Saturday morning “Sermon” from the “Plant-Preacher”. Best wishes for continued success!

@anniathome

5 ай бұрын

Love that! He really does fit that role! ❤

I’m a small home gardener, not really your target audience, but I just enjoy your videos so much. 👍🏾

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@Garden-Oasis

5 ай бұрын

Me too! I’m just a garden enthusiast but I watch his videos because he and his family are just so wholesome. I sometimes just have this channel playing in the background because I want to help them succeed. lol

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

@@Garden-Oasis So much appreciated!

I needed to hear this today! Substitute -- whenever he says, “Gardening,” “farming,” or “nursery” with whatever is going on in your life. This is just great life advice!

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

It all ties together.

Craig, thank you so much for your encouragement and wisdom. We faced so many Obstacles this past season, and didn't get the Nursery up and running. Some were rookey mistakes, some were way beyond our control, weather- where we get our mix had a Catastrophic failure, and burned... and there are very few places to get any mix, and only 1 organic- and some was illness and death. However with all of these things, God has been so good, we've backed up and pushed through, stepped back to see what we needed to change, and put an even better plan in place and are working Diligently towards it. Much of this is directly due to your advice. So thank you! Blessings ❤❤

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Glad you are persevering! Praise the Lord for that

holy crap, absolute wealth of information in this video

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

glad it was helpful!

Prayer….. it works. Not when we want but I Promise you will get answered!

You are an amazing source of information. Thank you for taking time out of your life to share with us. God bless you and your nursery.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

I appreciate that, David.

Thank you for the advice and honesty. I hope you enjoy this year and your hard work pays off.God Bless you and your family.

I f I don't have the money to something it will just have to wait I don't barrow from anyone nor do I get loans from banks I've always been that way. If something goes wrong I just deal with it and move on. Very good business advice.

You have learned so much your first year! Unimaginable for a first years growth! We are very proud of y'all and wait to see what you will do next! Love and prayers for you always!

“Rapidly appreciating assets!” So true! I love the economics of plant propagation! I just finished stratifying just under 100,000 native wildflower seeds and other perennials that probably cost me about $500 total, maybe. Many of them were foraged. Even if only half of them germinate and sell, it will be a phenomenal ROI. My husband only wishes his 401k did as well! God is so good to have built this exponential increase into nature! This is the one “talent” God clearly means for us to bury!

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

YEEESSSSSS to all of this!!

It’s been great growing with you! I’ve got a wholesale order of 4700 plants(arborvitae,boxwood,hydrangeas) coming very soon and already sold 60 of them thru my website :)

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

@Lynnhopeacres is KILLING IT!!

Another great video. Your content is very valuable. I appreciate the time you put into it.

Love these lessons! My husband and I have a farm. We always overestimate to the point now that on some projects, we are like why didn't we do that sooner it didn't take as long as we thought. But it never fails that one project leads to 2 more!! Great info! Adding it to my Savvyfarmer notebook!! You guys are the best!

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Thank you for being real. You're the first one I've heard give it like this ❤

Sending blessings and peace to you. Thank you for your precious time. God bless your garden and business.❤

Timing is everything.

@erbauungstutztaufgnade1875

5 ай бұрын

absolutely...

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Definitely very important.

Great advice especially the part about under estimating the time. Guilty as charged!!!!!!

Thanks so much for your honesty! This "straight skinny" real life talk is very much needed & appreciated. I'm a home gardener now, just wanting to get to the selling out of my driveway phase. Happy to subscribe to you. 😊

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

You can do very well selling out of your driveway!

Thanks for sharing and all the inspiration!!!

Truth and wisdom! Great video!

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Happy new year thanks for all you videos you’re awesome and I really appreciate your time 😎

Hahaha, I have a new one about dogs, I harvest bulbs in late fall for selling right away, really nice profit and no work, they multiply themselves. Well this fall I had 4 varieties of lily, 7 daffodils and 4 tulips. So I dug, put a tag in each basket with names and….. forgot I have a puppy. A 4 month (at that time) old Irish setter puppy called Kevin. 😂 So when I looked in my first basket and couldn’t find the name tag I was a little confused, then I looked in no 2 and there’s no tag in that either I get a little panicked and when I turn around Kevin is behind me so happy and proud offering a gift of 15 name tags. Yep. He took them all. 😂 I couldn’t sell one single bulb bc I didn’t know what anything was! So, I just dug them back in ground looking forward to a spectacular show this spring and summer. Next year it will be paper bags and written names on the bags instead. I’ll have a lot of bulbs though, as an example, first year I tried it, I planted 10 daffodils and dug 42. 20 tulips was 97!😮 so with about 1000 bulbs in ground…. Well a heck of a lot of bulbs, all varieties you can’t find easily in my country, I ordered mine from The Netherlands. So, there’s a tip, grow daffodils (tulips want a cold period to thrive) that naturalise, sell them early spring in pots, like Easter plants and/or leave them in ground to multiply and sell next fall.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

DOGS!!! Gotta love 'em

@patriciatinkey2677

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your story! So funny, though at the time I'm sure you were massively frustrated! Good thing puppies are so cute! Thanks for this info about bulbs, too. I've not grown bulbs for years, will give them another shot this year! Thanks again🙂 🐕🌱💙🇺🇲🌿

Great advice!

Thanks for sharing! Experienced most all of them :) Always learning!!

Another great video. Reality is part of life. Happy 2024. Try some canna lilies this season. Beautiful large plants in full sun that attract hummingbirds. Look into them. Yes they need to be removed in the fall but 1 plant will bring 3 -5 additional rhizomes in fall when dug out. Like hostas nice returns.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

I have some ordered. Are they a bare root clump or are they bulbs? Do I pot them early Spring and expect them to be ready in a couple of months? thanks Dan

@danradtke1663

5 ай бұрын

Yes potting them indoors in February Is a good idea they flower mid summer but the large leafs are awesome too. I sent you what rhizomes look like and what my variety looks like to your email. They are presidential red. Great show flower for out front up by your sign to draw customers.

Thank you 🤗🌱💚👍

I thought I could sell perennials I grew from seeds. They were so small. I put them in the ground to grow bigger for this spring. Overwintering them in pots was risky. This year I am going to start my seeds 2 months earlier so come May they are a decent size.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Perennials from seed for Spring sales have to be started REAL early, as you're doing. Let me know how that goes! Eventually, I want to be doing a lot that way.

@HoaGarden902

5 ай бұрын

@@savvydirtfarmer The perennials I have sold so far are from my own established gardens. I have varieties that self seed and I dig up the 1 year olds and pot them up. They fit nicely in 4" pots. Have you thought of making garden beds to grow out your perennials. I find pots pots have to be watered everyday but my in ground perennials I do not water at all. When I need them I just dig them up, pot them and give them 2-3 weeks to grow in the pots.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

@@HoaGarden902 I have certainly thought of it... I've thought of pretty much everything. Right now, that would be a huge project that I don't have time to take on. I would have to build several raised beds (my soil is trash) and fill them. But... long term, that is one of multiple growing/propagating things I'd like to have in place for a perpetual supply of free plants.

I'm now wondering if I missed the video where someone was driving down the road and crashed into your sign...

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Nope... just an example of something that CAN happen.

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Great advice! I'm wondering what you're growing for the upcoming season(s) that you haven't offered before. Also what plants you may not grow again. A video about that would be interesting.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

I like the idea. Will probably do that soon!

@anniathome

5 ай бұрын

@@savvydirtfarmer Yes, please. I would love to see a calendar of what to be thinking about/doing in advance.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

@@anniathome if I HAD a calendar.......

@anniathome

5 ай бұрын

@@savvydirtfarmer 🤣

YES...my dogs will destroy "stuff"! LOL

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

We're all good til she decides to chase a rat, mouse, rabbit.... THROUGH THE POTS!!

I’ve learned so much from you, but ‘plants die’ is number one. Last year deer got most of my plants. Hopefully the plants will be back and the deer won’t.

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

It's a hard thing to learn. It used to absolutely devastate me when I saw plants looking bad, knowing I wouldn't be able to sell them, or dead. Now, I throw them in the compost pile without much though, and move on. As time goes on, the percentage that die gets lower and lower as you learn what you're doing and learn what to not be doing.

Do you mind me asking where you get your containers?

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Free locally from landscapers, nurseries, etc. Local nursery supplier. Greenhousemegastore.com amleo.com

Pastor Craig

Hi I want to know can you propagate croutons from leaf cuttings

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Yes! And, I recommend using wheat lettuce for your efforts.

What do we do with all this cold weather

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

Put an extra log on the fire and put on a coat!

Mr Farmer sir, any advice on plants that don't sell? I've sunk money to buy from wholesalers and sold none of them. Good quality plants at wonderful prices, still nobody is interested in them :( thank you

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

A few options, depending on what kind of plants they are... pot them into bigger pots, divide them, take cuttings and propagate, plant them in the ground, or throw them out. But the main thing is, you need to sell them. What have you tried to do to sell them?

@John_GGG

5 ай бұрын

People aren’t interested? Are people looking at them and leaving empty handed, or are you just not reaching customers.

@chefscircle6133

5 ай бұрын

@@John_GGG for example, I have two type of plants. First plant sells a few hundred. Second plant had plenty of lookers but zero buyers.

@chefscircle6133

5 ай бұрын

@@savvydirtfarmer I have them in the driveway sale. Buyers will check out both plants, buy many of plant A, buy none of plant B Both are equally common in my area. I have up potted the unsold ones, hoping that bigger plants might attract buyers. If they still don't sell, I might throw them out

@savvydirtfarmer

5 ай бұрын

@@chefscircle6133 Good thing is plant A does sell well. At least you're selling something. It's hard to predict year to year what will and what won't sell well. Seems to be no rhyme or reason for it. That's why it's important to have variety... increase the chances of having some really great selling plants. Make sure your plants all have display cards with nice pictures of the plants in bloom, so people can know what they look like at their best.