Ep. 104 - How to Build a Nursery Side Hustle with Grant Payne - Part 1

Thriving The Future Podcast

How to propagate your own trees, plants, and flowers for free, and sell the extras as a side hustle.

Learn skills while using your abundance.

This is a Master Class on how to build a Nursery Side Hustle, with trees, plants, and flowers. It has tips that you can also use on your homestead to save and propagate trees and plants.

• Propagation - from seeds, cuttings, air layering, stool bed layering
• Obtaining seeds and plants
• How to forage, sprout, and transplant chestnuts
• Use geraniums as trap plants for Japanese beetles
• How to build a quick cold frame from pallets

Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.

Often when you buy trees, seeds, or plants online, you must buy from other states or regions. They often will not do well in your environment and climate.

I learned this the hard way that trees and plants grown in other areas and climates do not do well in Kansas.

Grant has many stories about how he wheels and deals for plants as they come off of the season. He just bought a truck bed full of geraniums.

Did you know that Japanese beetles get temporarily paralyzed after eating geraniums? You can use these as a trap plant.

As we approach the first frost, Grant created a quick cold frame with pallets and plastic. Using a black water container for heat retention at night. This gives a quick solution to extend the season into the winter without building a big greenhouse.

I propagate chestnuts and hazelnuts from seed, storing them in buckets of sand in the winter until they sprout out, then moving them to 5 gallon buckets or tree pots.

For more info, here is a step by step:https://grownuttrees.com/growing-chestnuts

Propagating trees by air layering and stool layering, a nice alternative to grafting.

Come back next week for Part 2 of this discussion, where we talk about:

• Flowers, mums, and bulbs
• Propagating from cuttings - elderberry, mulberry, figs, berries.
• Did you know that figs are pollinated by a wasp, who dies in the flower and is absorbed?
• Where to sell - FB, ebay, craigslist, and popup a quick website.

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