The Easy Way to Start a Home-Based Plant Nursery and Make Thousands in Your Spare Time

by David The Good

Do you dream about starting a plant nursery but aren't sure how to start? Are you afraid of regulations and irrigation and spending too much to get started? Do you wish you could stuff your yard with beautiful plants without guilt? If you're ready to take your love of gardening to the next level and start making money, this book is for you. In The Easy Way to Start a Home-Based Plant Nursery and Make Thousands in Your Spare Time, gardening writer and nursery owner David The Good shares how he created a profitable backyard nursery operation on a tight budget. In it you'll learn how to propagate plants quickly, work with wholesale nurseries, find your niche, find places to sell, market your plants, deal with accounting - and most of all, turn your plant hobby into a ready stream of cash, almost overnight. You can start a nursery without business experience, without fear of complicated regulations, without miles of irrigation tubing and without buying new land. Unlock the secrets of a successful nursery business today!

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Dana Zielke · Rating 3 out of 5]

One should start this book knowing it’s more like an interesting memoir than a how-to book.

While I enjoyed reading about David’s experience and found value in it, this book wasn’t quite what I expected.

There was some good advice to be gleaned (what worked best for David in terms of finding supplies, having a niche, being successful in a farmers market setting); Although I was hoping for something more step by step as far as starting a home based nursery. Some of the information I found to be too general (just hire an accountant, find more information about greenhouses elsewhere) or not focused (information about soil mixtures and fertilizer - anyone who is interested in/ confident enough to consider selling plants knows these things already).

I was most of all hoping to learn more about how to care for plants from seed/cutting until they are ready to sell. Unfortunately I did not find that information here.

[Anni Welborne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exactly what I needed

I am just on the cusp of beginning my own backyard nursery adventure, but I was filled with doubts! Reading Mr. the Good’s book has helped me think through several of those grey areas, providing much needed clarity. My niche is native plants for pollinator conservation, and I’ll probably add medicinal plants as well since so many native wildflowers are also medicinal. I’m thankful this book was a Kindle Unlimited book so I can save money here in order to spend more on plants.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Growing Your Own Plants

I didn’t know what to expect when I found this book. I haven’t really learned much from other little books like this, but this one was different.

This book It brings back memories of a book I read many years ago about the growing a business ideas by the man who built Smith & Hawkins, the gardening tool seller.

Anyway, you won’t become rich and famous (well maybe YOU will) by reading this book but it has a positively infectious attitude about becoming successful if you do something you love.

I enjoyed this little book and learned a few things along the way.

[Brooke · Rating 3 out of 5]

While David The Good did a nice job of explaining the ins and outs of how he created his own nursery, I didn’t get much out of it. I was hoping to learn a little more about how to begin a home nursery, but instead it felt like I was reading an autobiography. There were also some parts after the halfway point, where it felt like he was being overly judgmental of people who are different from him, and that felt icky. 3.5/5

[Ancilleno Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple and well written like a conversation no step by step advice

Though the title implies he will actually trek you how to start a plant nursery, there is little actionable advice included.
In summary he says, grow plants you like, sell them at farmers markets or from home, pay your taxes and advertise.
A short common sense broad brush advice column in book format.

[Daniel Stokes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this guy

David the Good is quickly becoming one of my favorite sources of quality plant information. Between his books and his YouTube channel there's just a ridiculous amount of outstanding content.

[Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

Lots of great tips about small nursery business. Opened my eyes to a lot of things I never knew about!

[C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book and it sparked a lot of ideas for me! It was also very informative and I appreciate you sharing your wisdom and love of plants!

[Frank C Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great overview of what's required to start a plant nursery from home.

[Ekaterina Zaimov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting read

Easy reading with great information. I was thinking about getting my hobby to pay for itself, and this is the book!

[William Harrington · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy reading, short, and to the point. I learned much and appreciated what I learned.

[Brian J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good tips, especially if you live in a warm climate all year. I don’t, so much of this doesn’t apply. But there are still some helpful bits.

[karl stemmann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and to the point

I found the book to be very informative and helpful. I will recommend this book to friends. A very good read.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

interesting

Lots of good practical information. Enjoyed it a lot. I am inspired to try out farmers market plant booths so i can learn

[Aaron Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

The book was outstanding great content. Very concise and not a lot of non-sense straight forward and easy to follow understand.

[Needa Stogner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!

It's a very informative book. If you are interested in starting your own plant nursery, this is the book for you.

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

This could’ve (and should’ve) been a blog post.

[Esaii Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspiring

Without getting too far into the weeds David lays out the in and outs of starting a home based nursery.

[Sneha Nathani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly stated region specific ideas, but helpful if you are a beginner. A quick read, and you need a backyard for most suggestions.

[Zelda · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a really short read but it's a basic overview for beginners, without much detail or outside research

[Liz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! Thankful for the insight and encouragement to do what you love and use what you have.