How to Grow Your Own Flowers and Sell Them
Start by setting aside some space in your yard to have a garden., Decide what you want to grow and sell: Plants or cut flowers? , Decide whether you want to be an organic grower or whether you want to use pesticides and other chemicals., Buy some...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Start by setting aside some space in your yard to have a garden.
It should be in a sunny area where the soil isn't too moist. -
Step 2: Decide what you want to grow and sell: Plants or cut flowers?
, Growing organically will support your local wildlife, ie. bees, butterflies, and birds, all of which are important for maintaining a healthy ecosystem, and especially, for pollination.
Using chemicals will help keep costs down, and save time.
It will cost you your "organic" label though. , See tips and sources below. , If you are using chemicals, dump in some fertilizer and something to get rid of slugs, and work it in.
If you growing organically, enrich your soil by adding something like peat moss and dehydrated cow manure.
Both are very easy to find at garden stores. ,,,, If you live on a road where you get enough traffic to have the stand in your yard, consider leaving a few products out all the time, with an 'honors system' can for payment.
Be sure to empty the can regularly, while most people are honest
- some are not. , Take pictures of your products and create posters to decorate your booth.
Put signs at intersections near your home.
Don't hang them on poles, and be sure they don't create a line-of-sight hazard. (Signs that do this are often removed, and you could get cited by the authorities for creating a hazard). -
Step 3: Decide whether you want to be an organic grower or whether you want to use pesticides and other chemicals.
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Step 4: Buy some fertilizer if you are going the chemical route
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Step 5: or start reading up on growing things naturally.
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Step 6: Loosen the soil.
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Step 7: put in some mulch into the soil to rich it up.
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Step 8: Pat it smugly
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Step 9: and using a ruler and a knife
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Step 10: cut a straight line and pour the seeds in.
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Step 11: After pat it smugly and mix some fertilizer with water and that's what you'll water with!
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Step 12: Now create a place to sell your flowers: Since your income won't be very high to start with
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Step 13: consider a roadside stand
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Step 14: or a booth at a flea market or community tag sale.
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Step 15: advertise!
Detailed Guide
It should be in a sunny area where the soil isn't too moist.
, Growing organically will support your local wildlife, ie. bees, butterflies, and birds, all of which are important for maintaining a healthy ecosystem, and especially, for pollination.
Using chemicals will help keep costs down, and save time.
It will cost you your "organic" label though. , See tips and sources below. , If you are using chemicals, dump in some fertilizer and something to get rid of slugs, and work it in.
If you growing organically, enrich your soil by adding something like peat moss and dehydrated cow manure.
Both are very easy to find at garden stores. ,,,, If you live on a road where you get enough traffic to have the stand in your yard, consider leaving a few products out all the time, with an 'honors system' can for payment.
Be sure to empty the can regularly, while most people are honest
- some are not. , Take pictures of your products and create posters to decorate your booth.
Put signs at intersections near your home.
Don't hang them on poles, and be sure they don't create a line-of-sight hazard. (Signs that do this are often removed, and you could get cited by the authorities for creating a hazard).
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