welcome to the rest of garden homestead
I just did a video last week on how to
make couple hundred dollars selling
plants at a plant yard sale and I
literally got hundreds of questions
people wanted more details so I'm going
to make a long video going over
everything I know on how you can have a
plant yard sale and really make well
over a thousand dollars and I'll explain
all that as we go through there will be
a digital table of contents so you can
jump around and skip the parts you're
not interested in so let's just start at
the beginning first of all I'm going to
link the original video in the I cards
and end screen and in the description
and this is not gonna be about seed
starting I will link my playlist for
starting seeds indoors for 2020 that
will give you all the information you
need to start your vegetable vegetable
plants and doors so you know you have to
do that of course to sell them but to
sell plants what do you have to do I'm
gonna go over the supplies you're gonna
need the plants that sell the best where
you find places to sell the plants how
much you sell the plans for and
everything so let's just start right at
the beginning so I think the best place
to start is what herbs and vegetables
and flowers sell the best because you
want to have a nice variety and you also
want to start them so that by the time
you bring them out to your plant yard
sale you're gonna have nice large plants
you know you don't want something small
like that even though they would
eventually grow you want to get plants
that are looking larger and these aren't
quite big enough yet they're close but
you want to have nice size plants
because that's what people are good to
see and that's what you're gonna you
know be selling them so they're going to
be excited by the size of the plant and
by the price that you're charging and
you can charge anywhere from $1 to $3
we'll talk about that first thing what
sells the best herbs certainly sell the
best tomatoes peppers cucumbers squash
zucchini and then some other plants but
let me just give you a couple of ideas
first thing that I would do is I would
have a collection of oregano
thyme rosemary and chives and you
basically want to start these and you're
not worried about a frost date because
you're gonna have to kind of move plants
in and out of the house get them
acclimated to being outdoors and you're
gonna have to work around the frost
you're really working to have these two
a nice size on the day of your first
plant sale so when I typically talk
about when do you start stuff indoors
you pick the average last frost date add
two weeks to it count backwards you're
gonna pick the day that you decide to
have you plant yard sale when you're
gonna start your plants so best time to
sell the plants number one somewhere
between May 1st and June 1st week of
June the earlier the better this way
people aren't going out and getting
plants so you might want to have your
plant yard sale within the first week or
two of May and then you maybe go to a
flea market or a church a week or so
later and maybe one more place in the
beginning of June so let's just say you
want to have your plant yard sale on May
1st so I'll go over this slowly you can
write it down I would recommend starting
these 4 herbs thyme oregano rosemary and
chives 10 to 12 weeks before you plant
sell date next thing I would go with is
of course peppers and if you're just
getting started I would do three types
of peppers I would do bell peppers
I would do banana peppers and I would do
jalapenos those three peppers now if you
want to add to it to more peppers to add
would be the Cayenne red cayenne pepper
and then maybe some colored bell peppers
so you'd have the standard greens and
then you can add in purple yellow red
something like that that will give you
five different varieties you could do
more if you want to but those would be
the main ones for tomatoes I would go
with a basic red beefsteak have a lot of
those that's what people look for
and a standard large cherry tomato those
are the two that sell extremely well you
can also add in some heirlooms of your
choice
different colored tomatoes do well and I
would mark them as indeterminate
varieties they tend to be best people
don't always understand the difference
between determinate and indeterminate
tomatoes so if you sell them determinate
varieties they'll do well but then
they're gonna die off so I would focus
more on the indeterminate varieties the
ones that will grow the entire season so
for peppers eight to ten weeks Tomatoes
six to eight weeks and for all of these
numbers I would go to the bigger number
so for the herbs twelve weeks
peppers 10 weeks tomatoes 8 weeks you
really want to get your plants up to
size those are the plants that you're
going to really have to start indoors if
you want to add something into that you
could do some eggplant and again
eggplant I would do about 8 weeks before
the sale date of your plant yard sale
then in this case we're talking about
May 1st these are what you would start
indoors and have plenty of videos on
that and again I'll link the list or
I'll link the videos to this video so
I'll be cutting into this video too just
to clarify some key points and write
some stuff down so maybe you could just
do a screenshot so it's really going to
depend on your zone when you're starting
your seeds you plants indoors so it may
be you know 10 to 12 weeks 8 to 10 weeks
6 to 8 weeks you get the idea
so this is basically the list that I
would start with if you want to go you
know full speed I would do a little bit
of everything that I put on there if you
want to keep it simple just follow the
ones that I asked to risk and it would
be time oregano chives green bell banana
jalapeno beefsteak cherry tomato type
and that will be perfect to get you
started you know selling your plants on
the second page you may may not want to
add these I would because it'll give you
a nice variety and people usually will
buy a whole garden worth of stuff so I
would definitely do a cucumber
the pickling type a market more
something like that of which is of the
bigger 8-inch cucumber something along
those lines squash just a yellow type
zucchini a dark green type I want to do
the melons if you wanted to keep it
simple
and I would definitely try and do some
basil and cilantro you could add in more
types of squash more types of zucchini
and one thing that's not on a on here is
an eggplant I'd leave that off too
unless you want it to add it and if you
do add it maybe just do your standard
big purple suit purple eggplant you can
do smaller ones like the Japanese type
but if you're gonna do an eggplant do
the one that people most likely
recognize now it depends on how much
room you have so you got all these
tomatoes peppers and herbs going which
is great they're gonna sell and you
could enjoy that but at some point you
know you don't want to be spending
hundreds of dollars on all this setup
it'll be nice once you start making
money you can you know expand and grow
so what comes next so the next plants
that so extremely well are your zucchini
cucumbers and squash and you want to do
them I have this here for four weeks
when they're going out into your garden
you want these to really have at least
four weeks to five weeks of growth you
want them to get nice and large and I
would start them rather than starting
that me you don't start them in small
containers like this anyway I would
start them in larger containers like
that if you buy in your containers that
are basic potting up containers they're
gonna cost you anywhere from fifteen to
thirty cents up a small pot you can go
to your grocery store you can pick up
eight or nine ounce cups this is what I
recommend and you gotta make sure you
put holes in them and by doing it this
way you're going to get 50
I don't know how many's in here 80 50 to
80 cups containers
for anywhere from four cents to seven
cents a cup that's a lot more reasonable
when you're trying to make money make
sure you poke holes in all these these
are flimsy plastic these aren't the hard
plastic if you get something like this
you make sure it's the plastic that's
flexible so you can punch a hole in it
you can pick what you want if you use
paper cups because we're watering from
the bottom and we're putting holes in it
and moist oil sitting here they could
deteriorate but some people like to use
these over plastics or styrofoam
styrofoam eight ounce and nine ounce
cups will work well too I prefer
something like this that's a little bit
it's more wide and not as tall as these
other cups in this way when you're
storing them and moving them around they
don't fall over as much if you use a cup
like this you can see how it's taller
sometimes they flop over but it'll all
work out you want to be able to write on
here what your plants are do not use
these markers in here it'll it'll drive
you crazy
you want to write right on the cup so I
would start your Zuke's your squash your
cucumbers you can even do some melons
cantaloupe watermelon people like those
too and I would put two seeds in a cup
you get it you can leave them in there
or you can send them down but you want
to actually plant them directly into
these larger cups you don't want to move
the four week plants I just talked about
into something like this and then pot up
and all that you want to take them put
them into you can get these roasting
pans if you go to the dollar store you
can get them for about a dollar each and
it will fit in a hole it'll fit in a
whole lotta it'll fit in many cups and I
would just plant your Zuke's
your cukes your squash your melons right
into those cups and you will bring this
out during the day when it's not
freezing bring him in at night they'll
stay warm at night they'll germinate you
take them outside they'll grow they'll
also be hit by the Sun they'll toughen
up to the UV rays you won't have to
acclimate these plants to the outdoors
I'll explain that in a second why you
have to do that with your tomatoes
peppers and your herbs so that's a great
way
to really get a whole lot of cucumbers
squash zucchinis melons going you can
also do beans people like beans I would
put in two or three seeds for beans for
usually green beans and climbing green
beans I would get some containers like
this these actually cost me four bucks
it comes with a lid at Walmart and the
big one I think was six dollars you're
gonna have tall tomato plants you're
gonna want to be able to move them
around in some capacity so I recommend
these ClearType containers now the clear
containers are a little bit more
expensive but this container here will
do really nice to hold your tomato
plants again really tall so the clear
domes serve two purposes when you're
bringing your plants once they're in
here and they've been growing indoors
and you're not used to the Sun this
provides a little bit of UV protection
because it's not perfectly clear so you
could put your plants outside just like
that and then put this over that and
they could stay out a little bit longer
they'll get some UV rays they'll stay
warmer they'll grow and they'll get
acclimated to the Sun so this is just
you know two ways that you can use this
container you can also just a trick is
you can put sunscreen on here and that
helps decrease the UV rays from coming
through but also lets in some sunlight
and the whole idea is just to get your
plants used to the outdoors so that they
look great come time of your sale the
lids are nice because you can put them
on you can stack them on top of each
other when you put them in a car and
transportations a whole lot easier
especially if you're moving around a
whole lot of plants getting your plants
used to the Sun some people don't know
what that means when you grow your herbs
your tomato plants your pepper plants
and doors they're not used to the Sun so
they have no resistance really to the UV
rays so if you put these straight out
into the Sun it's a beautiful sunny day
you think your plants are going to do
well they have the sun shining on them
what happens is the sun rays that UV
rays burn
leaves and it kills off the leaves your
plants usually survive but you don't
want to have that happen you know a week
or two before you're going to go sell
these plants because they're going to
look terrible
so you have to slowly bring your mature
plants that are ready to go out into
containers outside and get them used to
the Sun and that's called acclamation
and that usually is a five to seven day
process I recommend trying to take your
plants out when it's cloudy if it's
cloudy you can leave them outside for an
hour to the first day if it's cloudy the
second day you can leave them out for
two or three hours and you slowly get
them use so the UV rays if it's sunny
out seriously you can only sometimes put
these out for twenty minutes or so in
full sunny days let them you know just
get hit by the Sun get twenty minutes
worth of the Sun thirty minutes worth of
the the Sun bringing back indoors you
can also put them in a place where they
may just get Morning Sun like if the
front of your house gets the the sunrise
and then the Sun moves away to the
backyard put the plants out on your
front step this way that sounds a little
bit less intense the other tip I have is
as let's come over here so I've got
thyme and oregano in there just broke
the surface so as your plants are just
breaking the surface and for like the
first two or three weeks of growth try
and take them out once or twice a day in
those flats I'm sorry once or twice a
week not once or twice a day once or
twice a week and put them outside in the
Sun when they're little they've got that
resistance to the Sun it's after they've
been growing a while indoors the
resistance goes away so if you take them
out once or twice a week let them get
some sunshine why they're small and
growing they're gonna build up a
resistance to the Sun and you'll be able
to get these out much more easily it's
really really important because I don't
want you to do all this work you take
everything outside you pot everything up
into these nice containers or into your
cups you put them in the Sun they're out
there for a day or two and then you look
at them and all the leaves are burned
so it's really really important to
transition your plants alright so a
quick recap we've got four herbs oregano
thyme rosemary chives
we got peppers and tomatoes a couple
different varieties some eggplant
we have zucchini squash cucumbers some
melons you could throw in some beans and
definitely you want to do basil and
cilantro in again don't pay attention to
these numbers just listen to what I'm
saying for basil and cilantro you want
to start these about five to six weeks
before they would go outside and you can
start them the same way as the melons if
you want to go right into the cups or
you can start them in these tiny cells
like right over here let them break the
surface germinate inside and as they get
established move them out more quickly
so you just pop them out of these
smaller cells get them into your cups
and then get them outside and the
benefit to that is inside your house
where it's warmer your basil and your
cilantro it's going to germinate more
quickly and get the size again the whole
goal is to really have beautiful plants
on the first day of your plant sale
alright so let's talk about the first
plant sale and pricing you can obviously
price them for whatever you want
whatever might sell in your area if you
go to Home Depot you go to Lowe's plants
are anywhere starting it 2 bucks if
you're lucky but 3 4 or 5 dollars
depending on what they are you don't
want to compete directly with them you
want to give people a great deal so I do
recommend you know if you want to make
your money back that you put in start
with you know plants for a dollar and
then move them up to 2 bucks so you
certainly can get 2 or 3 dollars an herb
plant you can get one or two dollars a
tomato plant you can get one or two
dollars for your squash zucchini
cucumbers basil cilantro you can even
push it up to three dollars
I've liked doing it at about 2 bucks a
plant and then I would do 3 for 5
dollars but it all depends on you know
what you want to do and where you live
all that kind of stuff so when you pot
up your plants you're gonna have to put
them into the trays like I was talking
about and move them in and out doors
take him out during the day when it's
warm bring him in at night if you have
to you don't want these to be exposed to
freezing temperatures it's also going to
be raining outside you're gonna be
watering outside so I like to have a
roll of duct tape for the reason being
that when these are going in and out
you're gonna put a hole in here so if it
rains the water drains out you never
want these to sit in water you're
probably not gonna have to worry too
much about bottom watering and watering
and dripping up at the point when the
plants are bigger and they're in these
cups you can water from the top with a
watering can or something like that but
if you wanted to you needed to you could
put a piece of duct tape over the hole
just pick you know put the hole in right
here maybe and then the duct tape let's
definitely seal there and then you can
water in a container or a tray if you
need to so this holds 19 cups these are
eight or nine ounce cups this one over
here and this is what I prefer this
holds I think 32 cups and I'm gonna just
go on from here saying every plant we
sell would be $2 a plant 3 for $5 so you
have about $64 worth of plants here take
off the discount let's say you got about
55 and over here
$38 with the plants take off the
discount you know maybe $33 so you can
see that it starts to add up I would do
a plant sale on a Saturday Thursday
night Friday night I would put out signs
in my neighborhood directing them of
course to my address and I would do it
from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. you don't have to
be there all day you can even do it 8 to
noon and that would you know get people
coming as I started doing this year
after year years ago people started
looking forward to it and they would
come regularly and they would anticipate
it now with social media what I would do
is start a Facebook group or use
whatever social media you use get all
your friends on there and do a pre sale
that week and have people come over
if you want to you could also do the
sale on Sunday to same time 8 to 12 and
that's good a really I'm trying to think
back but I mean I would sell hundreds of
dollars worth of plants over that
weekend as I got into doing this
regularly I would take my perennial
plants that were out in the yard I would
divide them in the fall put him into
larger pots let them grow let them
establish over the winter and then when
spring came they would sprout up and I
would sell those larger quart pots that
you know you pay five six seven eight
nine dollars at Home Depot and Lowe's I
would sell them for four or five dollars
so that's another way to make money
dividing your perennials and putting
them you know into larger containers
where do I get my large containers start
asking your friends now for any
landscaping containers when they do
their landscaping or any plant
containers when they do the landscaping
and just put a collection together
you'll get all kinds of different pot
sizes and you can use them for your
plant cells alright so that's the basic
yard sale done yet your driveway out of
your yard I would also look for local
flea markets they're not expensive
sometimes they're as low as 10 bucks for
like a parking space that's where mine
was mine was out at a giant grocery
store and he just got a parking lot
space for ten bucks so I would do those
two sales pretty close together the one
at the Giant and the one out of my
driveway and they'd be maybe seven to
ten seven to ten days apart and that's
important because you're planning all
your plans to be ready for that first
plant sale out of your yard a week or
ten days go by you do the next sale if
you want to do a third sale your plants
are starting to get too big so you got
to make sure you're fertilizing these
regularly about every week with a dilute
water soluble fertilizer and you also
have to make sure that they don't get
too large that they start the flower and
fruit and the plants get wrecked so if
you want to do a third sale maybe later
in May or at the beginning of June when
you start your plants for the initial
sale for May 1st you get everything
started you have everything planned
but maybe you want to start a couple of
plants well not a couple but a handful
two to three weeks after those initial
tomatoes or there's initial peppers so
that you have some fresh peppers some
fresh tomato plants for those sales
later in May or the beginning of June
you just want to plan accordingly don't
overwhelm yourself really plan it out
however you want if you want to keep it
simple just grow enough for you that
first weekend for your plant yard sale
and you'll easily I think make 200 300
400 500 dollars just depending on what
you put out there now notice I didn't
talk about the cool weather crops kale
lettuces stuff like that I grew them a
little bit differently
I grew those in these six-packs because
no one really wants to pay a dollar or
two for a single lettuce plant in a
container like this or a kale plant
because when they go to the store
they're always sold in six-packs so you
could set something up like this grow
some lettuce in here some kale in here
and you would start these about 6 weeks
before your your plant cell so that they
get to a nice size - you don't want to
go for weeks
sometimes they're a little bit small
past 6 weeks they're getting too big so
lettuce isn't here kales in here you
could do broccoli you could do
cauliflower the cool weather crops and I
would sell this for usually 2 bucks if
you're really having a good time you're
really ambitious you could also do peas
I would start the peas and cups like
this you want to get them really growing
and getting a good six or eight weeks of
growth two or three pea seeds in here
set them up up and in a tray like that
peas like the cold weather more and I
would just start the peas by taking
these outside going today bringing them
in at night and this way when you go to
sell them you're gonna have people ants
that are eight inches tall and people
will enjoy that and they're gonna be
nice and healthy well established
do you want to recommend you check with
your state or your province or wherever
you might be living and see what you
need to do with respect to taxes and a
lot of states you need a tax ID it's
real easy to get you can do it online
nowadays and you would just pay the
appropriate taxes based on what you sell
so now that's not such a big deal if
you're selling it you know out of your
driveway for a yard sale I mean most
places don't bother you when you do that
but if you're going to flea markets
especially flea markets that have been
established sometimes people come by and
ask for your tax ID even sometimes it
you know church weekend events and stuff
like that so I just want to go over real
quick to the planning stage you know you
can start looking now it's January here
start you know thinking about the date
you want to sell your plants start
setting up your social media so that you
can send something out to your friends
and let them know you're gonna have
plants that they can buy and then start
looking locally in papers online where
to mouth check out churches ask your
friends for different flea markets and
events where you can sell your plants
and then set them up on a calendar and
you want to do this in a way that you
get your yard sale with large plants and
then in about a week or so
you sell them again so that's two sales
and in each sale I really think you can
make you know a couple hundred dollars
up to four hundred dollars so you do a
couple of events and maybe you do a
third one later in the month or in the
beginning of June with some new plants
that you are with plant you start a
little bit later than your first wave of
plants you know and see if you can break
that thousand dollar marker what's most
a thousand dollar
you know goal what's most important is
you just decide what your goal is if you
want to make a hundred bucks
so I'd stick with mostly herbs and
tomatoes and peppers if you want to make
more different varieties of those plants
throw in the warm weather crops and just
kind of build your plan that way and the
other question I got a lot was I just
want to keep this simple what would you
recommend
for something simple pick two or three
of these herbs oregano thyme rosemary
chives definitely peppers do a sweet
pepper do a hot pepper sweet banana bell
pepper jalapeno tomatoes just do the red
beefsteak and the cherry tomato I would
do some cucumbers you can do pickling
cucumbers for inches you could do the
standard cucumbers 6 or 8 inches just
pick one of those whichever one you want
one type of squash usually a yellow
squash dark zucchini that's plenty
you'll have enough to get your yard sale
started get established people will
enjoy it and you'll be on your way to
being able to do this regularly and have
some extra money if you really setting
this up and you're doing it right
there's no reason why over you know a
weekend worth of you plant yard sale a
flea market and another you know maybe
church sell something like that you
can't be pushing a thousand dollars and
who couldn't use the extra money to buy
what they need for their garden and
expand the garden and you know offset
some of the costs
gardening's not terribly expensive but
it can get expensive when you're
bringing in all kinds of soil amendments
you're building raised beds or if you
want to set up grow light stations like
this so I hope this gives you some idea
of how you can really set up an indoor
grow light station use these containers
to start plants by bringing them in and
outside and start a little business make
yourself some money enjoy gardening and
have that extra pocket money thanks so
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