This video is good for all businesses…not just for the plant business….

Another mistake is growing plants that you like and not growing plants that people want. I sell plants from 2 acre back yard nursery by appointment only. I always control my customer flow and advertise "No crowds, Just me."

You are always so good with your info: plain, clear and to the point!

I really appreciate the upfront outline of what you will be talking about. Refreshing after so many long videos of lists that you end up skipping through

Jason, very good sharing! We've done the Farmer's Markets as well with our crops (fresh berries) but we figured out the time spent travelling, setting up and being there for 4 hours was just not feasible for us as we still needed to farm! So, we resorted to selling from our farm and people love the experience coming to a farm! You must read a book that really helped us to get a new viewpoint for our business - "The Experience Economy" - in this day in age it's not about a commodity but experience! This is what we're working on! Thank you for your openness about your business!

I’m so happy to see you fighting back to this dilemma/pandemic! I have no doubts that your creativity and passion will get you through this. Maybe you will even find yourself in a better place as a small grower in the future. I think/hope this experience teaches people that local is always best!!!!!

Thoroughly enjoyed not only watching & learning all your great business / horticulture & tech advice but also seeing you succeed while remaining genuine & honest.......great stuff

This is very helpful for me because i'm planning to have a plant business, thanks for sharing your ideas

Many years ago, a friend was trying to get out of his business and decided to "price himself out." He found that he made more money than ever, as people loved his product and he finally had to TELL people he was quitting. He said people kept telling him they knew they were getting good value because he charged so much...a little crazy but there it is.

Always love these videos! Keep up the great work! Can’t wait for the next one.

Thank you for sharing your experience. Greatly appreciated.

Great advice Jason thanks for making these great videos.

This is amazing, I'm planning on studying agriculture and these are some really useful tips

Thank you for sharing, I've watched some of your videos and you share great contents, I love all of them. Thanks.

You are a gem for your honesty! So nice to hear about your business ventures. Best wishes and very much enjoy your videos! Keep it up.

Great thoughts Jason...#5..I too priced too low. My sales were through the roof last year with very satisfied perceived value feedback from my customers, but when I sat down and completed my P&L at the end of the season, not so good. After 3 years of selling, this is still a work in progress for me. My standard product is a trade gallon perennial or shrub. My customer is not the landscaper looking for 2-3 gallon plants. It's the homeowner looking to add new plants to their landscape. I'd love to hear your insight on growing smaller but less expensive vs. larger and more expensive.

Thanks for the transparency

You have one of the best agricultural channels on KZfaq. Thanks! Keep it up! Greetings from Peru.

Thank you so much I'm only starting my plant business and this is sm eye opener

I am just starting out and learning so much from you. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience!

Thank you I m starting a nursery soon and your tips are a great help

Thank you Jason for your business insight. I am a investment consultant and plan to start a nursery. I have been growing plants for years as a hobby. Now that I am working from home, I am able to spend more time in my large garden. Watched several of your videos today and enjoyed all of them. Thank you.

Your channel is an eye opener for starters.. thanks.

So interesting topic Thanks for sharing your experience!!!!

More great Nursery business info! Thanks!

Great information! I am a Florida Master Gardener and I am thinking about starting a backyard nursery. Sharing your mistakes was a very helpful topic.

This was really informative! Thank you! I am busy with starting a small backyard nursery (with big dreams of developing it into a proper nursery) and videos like these truly help me a lot.

good for you!!!!! rooting for you

thanks very informative, I can see how over ethusium can easily lead to over purchasing equipment you don't need or haven't fully thought through!

Thanks a lot for your valuable info Jason, this helps a lot and I really appreciate your knowledge.

Thanks for the knowledge.

Thank you for sharing this information. I am in the start up process of doing a backyard nursery. Love your channel!

You're so helpful. Bless you xx

Thank you. I'll watch it a couple or 3 times

Thanks Jason. Very inciteful while being relevant even here in Australia

Thanks for the video!

Such useful info again, thanks!

Very Informative. Thank you.

Very helpful for me, thank you

Fantastic video!

Brilliant insight, thank you for sharing, great to get a first-hand look into nursery production :)

Great information, thank you .😊

Thanks!! Great tips! 🌼🌼🌼

Appreciate your advice Mr plant man

Interesting, thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊

Thanks for sharing

i love your video. very informative.. tq

Great advice!! Thankyou for your tips.Cheers from Australia!🙂

I've been a plant grower and markets for 17 years and yes spot on a tip for tomatoes would probably be change the pot size or put in a little bit early and get the stem thicker then others sometimes I would have 10 or more selling same as what I took but deference was I sold out they would go home full👍

This is really interesting. I am selling seedlings this year for the first time.i didn’t intend on going into sales. I grew 100 tiny tin seedlings for a health fair where I was to have a booth on growing your own healthy food. I also had more dwarf and microdwarf tomatoes because I put 5-6 seeds in a cell for each variety. The germination rate was high so I had extras. I have been trading them for eggs, bread flour, and other items. My goal is to teach people in my community to grow their own food. I wouldn’t mind Selling enough plants to by the green house I want, too!

great info

What a great video concept. Thank you for your authenticity. I wish I had been to your $10 rose sale! 😉

Thanks so much!!!!

This is a great video, I have experienced exactly the same thing. I am majorly guilty of no. 2, overly enthusiastic and spent too much money, lol. The worst mistake for me was seasonal items. It sold really well one year, so I bought container load and sold none the following year. To make things even more than worst, cost me money to dispose of it.

Minute 5:16 that little mouse crossing the path hihi

I make handmade soaps and I have made every single one of those mistakes when I was selling at farmers markets. These mistakes are universal.... and really unavoidable. Even big companies make these mistakes. Good luck! Your location is absolutely gorgeous. But you know that already. :) To you point about the tomato competition, the farmers markets where I sold my soaps could only have one soap vendor, one handmade pasta vender, one honey vendor etc, and that rule was there to protect the small vendors who weren't making a whole lot to begin with. These farmers markets were not free to join. We had to pay a weekly fee to sell there and sometimes needed a commitment to an entire season. However, they would allow multiple produce sellers so the farmers had to adapt to the competition. I made great soap and I didn't have to worry about being undercut by the banana bread guy or the orchid girls because they weren't allowed to sell the specific soap I was making.

dude i fuckin love your videos straight down to earth good guy i can just tell im in the process of figuring out what i want to grow for a plant business... i will strive to make it work been really stressed out lately and figured id start growing plants to take the stress away and man lemme tell you..... im starting to feel like a new person i love growing!!!! good day to you man!!!

Just found you today . Nice Info

Nice..❤❤🌱🌳

Hello Jason. I’m new to home gardening since I have a small backyard and bedding along the yard. I’m interested in planting different types and colors of roses and other plants but I’m curious if there’s different care for the little rose plants and the larger ones?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Id like to hightlight that you should be cautious using PayPal too heavily. I recommend reading about the pitfalls of using them. Ive had headaches that were a pain to resolve.

Jason, this coming april I need at list 15 pot of different color of Rose's, what place I need to go. Or market. Please let me know, I alway watching your vidio. Thank you and god bless.

We want to see your edible forest!

Where did you get your greenhouse that’s showing in the background and what size is it?

about underpricing... i think you are definitely underselling those crazy cool succulent planters!

Omg I'm actually first!

Mistakes are learning but mistakes in rare plants kind is real sadness

Check out Etsy and EBay on pricing and avail. very helpful . On my 3rd year with them now after retirement ! Very satisfying . My small business went crazy in April and May of 2020

What is that running in the background @5:15 ?

Do you sell on Ebay?

Where do you get all of the black plastic pots?

Hi there it’s Norm Thompson I bin watching your videos very well put together I am trying hard to start making a few bucks off it to help us with all my medical bills I no you can’t relie on plant sales first we love working with plants and we already own the greenhouse witch helps if we could make 300. Per month be happy if you have any tricks that would help we would love to hear from you I wrote you a few weeks back

How do you price the plants you sell if they are rare in your area?

5:15 mouse ran by,

Have you tried selling on Amazon?

Does your town have a Facebook page you can sell on? What about Craigslist?

Killed with kindness 1:24

How can I get government funding to grow plants? That's what I want to know.

I take mine to flea markets and ebay

Hi guy we are on 3 year growing and selling but how can I talk to you and I email you then could I pay you to just talk to me I am trying hard to keep it going but I am loosing my both legs and getting prosthetic legs and one hand so I could really talk with you I really want to keep trying but I could use some that is smart I think you are doing great way to go

Great video! I have a backyard nursery myself and deal with alot of the same problems! Check out my youtube channel, I am building a house right now so alot of my videos are construction related but I do have lots of plant videos as well. Most of my business comes from Facebook groups. I also had art work done in a comical cartoon theme almost like Mario Bros. art on plywood that says"plant sale" . I use these when I throw an actual sale. I do a facebook Ad that shows my address, time of sale which is usually the 3 day weekend, my Ad shows the time 9-6 and it says just show up. Doing it this way has brought me in about 10,000 in 3 days! Very hectic and sometimes gets too crowded where I might upset the neighbors. Once again, great video!

#1 is the same reason why covid19 is an issue

I’d say those are the business mistakes or business pressures I’ve encountered over and over during my business career…even after I had already faced that issue and thought I was a little smarter than the last time… I ran a small food processing business for 35 years and got the opportunity to “solve” those issues again and again … When I retired 7 years ago I thought I had the opportunity to do what I really loved; raise plants and sell them…from the beginning I only wanted to sell direct, from my farmstead….I had the experience of being a market gardener when I was young and the example of several local excellent horticulturists and small farmers to inform me about the possibilities and opportunities… The conclusion first…I really don’t want the activity I love to be wrapped up in all of the pressures of business… I lived with that stress for decades..and given the choice decided not to do it again… But I have a few anecdotes about starting a home farm business… 1. Customers will commit to your business if they like you and you product quality and selection…some customers just don’t come back because you don’t hit it off or they had a bad experience with your product… Customers come and go…you always have to be looking for/recruiting new customers… 2. Unique and timely product offerings…customers are looking for something new and different and at the right time, something with a story…one year I had hundreds of unusual tulips. They were very early for our area and I sold as many as I could cut…the next year I planted hundreds more…but, the moles ate 90% of them…but customers were asking for them…how many crop failures can I take? Will customers return a third time? 3. Customers may or may not like what you like…I love roses but in our cold climate the most beautiful tender roses have a tenuous reputation, they don’t survive our winters…to satisfy my own desire to grow these plants I made the decision to buy bare root hybrid teas etc. and enjoy the challenge of growing them in pots for 1 season…most gardeners consider that excessive expense and labor…I had gone through the experience of trying to over winter these beauties and had decided the annual expense of buying new plants was worth it to me….but my customers knew best, these tender roses do not survive our winters…even at an Inexpensive farm stand price of $25 nobody would buy them (though several of the nicest plants were stolen from my roadside stand.) my interests and priorities don’t necessarily match my costumers’. 4. Loss leaders keep your customers coming back…besides plants I also sold lamb meat and sheep hides and eggs and chicken, and some fruits …customers sometimes bought the roses or perennials or annuals or blueberries or apples or grapes but they always bought eggs and the lamb was gone within a week…problem was, those items meat and eggs are expensive to produce and most people expect good value on commodities… but they came back every week for eggs… So like you say ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket,’ don’t overspend, don’t over produce, etc I would add; expect change, keep looking for new customers, keep experimenting with new product ideas, keep up your quality, find products with a fanciful story, offer loss leaders that don’t cost too much to produce…