Make Money Gardening

Who doesn’t love to make money? And who wouldn’t love to make money,  while at the same time, doing it with something that they love? Making money gardening  is just as profitable as many other home-based businesses: if your  cards are played right, that is. Let’s take a quick look at some  prospects for gardening for profit.

Getting started: preparation is paramount

Making money gardening can be such a lucrative and fun endeavor.  However, like most business propositions, you’ve got to literally know  the produce/plant market inside-out in your community and even in your  state. If you’re looking to sell homegrown produce, visit your local  farmer’s market. Observe and record the going prices, as well as what’s  hot and what’s not.

Research your community and determine your key demographic. Determine  what most people will pay for any given plant or crop, and which crops  perform better than others. These are just a few hints.  It’s good to  keep in mind that-depending on where you will do business-you may be  required to apply for a business permit and register a tax ID number.

Herb garden marketing: one of the latest sensations

Herb gardens are one of latest crazes to sweep the gardening/produce market. Getting starting making money gardening with herbs generally entails producing strategies to sell what you  already have. Make a list of the herb-related products that you have, or  intend on buying, and figure out how you can convert them into products  that actually hold value to customers.

Start out simple and grow  the products that you’re the most familiar with. It might even entail  micromanaging seedlings for optimum results. Bring customers to your  business in a variety of cheap (or even free) ways. Utilize the  internet-Craigslist is one of the best bets among many these days. In  print newspaper ads still garner a lot of attention, and word-of-mouth  advertising is also very advantageous when you know the right people.

Additionally, consider the dried herb market. Why dried herbs? Many  customers don’t purchase fresh herbs, simple because they don’t realize  that a dried herb is actually the same as a fresh one-only dried, of  course. Most herbs look totally different in their dried phase and once  they’re stuffed in a jar.

Making money gardening with anything from vegetables to fruits and to shrubbery and flowers

There’s an exhaustive list of methods where gardening can be  profitable. Fruits, veggies, flora and other items sell en masse at  farmers’ markets.  You can acquire anyone from total strangers to  friends and family as customers, and you don’t even have to have an  elaborate setup (like most farmers’ market tends to be). Growing  specialty flora and general plants usually commands even higher  prices-therefore, bigger profits. With the latter, though, the tradeoff  is that you’ll likely do less business.

Utilize friends’ gardens

Making money gardening may be an exciting startup business, but many people just don’t have  the time (or energy!) to sustain a garden of their own. Or they’ll start  a garden and eventually realize they don’t have time to tend to  it-money down the drain. Using someone else’s garden will definitely be a  time and money saver, but sometimes the owner will want royalties for  each of your sales. Nonetheless, it really doesn’t matter what your  situation is; there are opportunities for practically anyone who loves  gardening and/or growing produce.

Your own garden

Not too thrilled with the prospect of using someone else’s property  to capitalize on your plants? Start your small garden if you’ve got  sufficient time to tend to it. The garden plot really doesn’t even have  to exceed 20 by 25 feet in size. Even at that size, you can grow a good  variety of plants, produce, fruits, flowers, and any mixture of,  therein. Just make sure you have a sound business plan, the time and  energy to sustain not only the garden but also the business side of your  operation, and a big enough customer base to make the whole thing worth  it.