Growing Profits: How to Start & Operate a Backyard Nursery (Paperback)

by Michael Harlan (Author)

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Product Description
A backyard nursery is a great business opportunity for the person seeking some level of self-employment. It can be a full-time operation for the entrepreneur, or a part-time enterprise for a stay-at-home Mom, the retiree who wants to supplement a pension, or the landscaper who wants to make additional income by both selling and installing plants.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Moneta Publications; 2nd edition (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965456773
• ISBN-13: 978-0965456777
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #392,672 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delivers. Written by experts. Easy to read. Practical., May 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Growing Profits: How to Start and Operate a Backyard Nursery (Paperback)

Here's their back cover blurb: "Learn how to start a nursery in your backyard with virtually no capitual investment. In an area of only 1,000 sq. ft. it is possible to generate over $5,000 worth of plants in a single growing season."

The 207 page book delivers on its promise. The book is particularly good in explaining the value of "time" in the nursery business. If you expect to make money with your greenhouse... or with a nursery business, this is an EXCELLENT book to get.

It's easy to read and contains lots of money-making ideas. Here's a way to get that greenhouse by your spouse... "look at the extra money we can make!" If you have teenage children, this is a great way for them to earn extra money. If you're a business man, I think there you can make more money with less work in other ways. But hey, it's fun. The book is oriented to growing flowers and shrubs... and not so much for growing vegetables. Although growing herbs is one of the things recommended. They deliver on describing how to make $5,000 in only 1,000 sq. ft. The most important thing this book delivers is the core thinking process that a nurseryman must analyze in terms of time, and profit per unit of time. I didn't realize this was so important, but now it makes sense to me.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Growing Profits, September 16, 2005

By	Prairiedoll - See all my reviews

This book is a well written, concise basic introduction to the subject. The book helps the beginning businessman stay out of legal trouble by providing information on licenses, taxes,and zoning codes. Different operating options are provided as well as plant care and equipment requirements.

52 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much useable info but some good ideas., February 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Growing Profits: How to Start and Operate a Backyard Nursery (Paperback)

Only one paragraph on greenhouses, no wonder he only can make a few thousand. You really need a greenhouse to grow your starts in this business and to have only a little on this subject tells me alot..( he never made it big) There is no mention of caring for the enviorment here, The use of posins are recomended and no real overall plan for runoff or water table poulution, guess he doesn't care. Any way if you got extra bucks, get it cause one good idea can be worth the price.