Backyard Profits: How to Make Money Growing Plants - Associated Content from Yahoo! on Astini News

Is it possible to turn a profit growing plants in your backyard? The answer is an emphatic yes! Gardening for pleasure or to supplement the food you have available for your dinner is great, but it can make you some serious money as well. It really isn't very difficult to do if you already have a green thumb and and the space to devote to a small plot you can dedicate to growing plants for profit.

Before diving in to what plants can yield the best profits, this article will be broad based in that it will attempt to identify many different plants to offer enough variety for everyone to find something that both meets their available space and a variety of locales as it is well known different plants thrive under different conditions. In some cases the best fit for you may be a vegetable, while for others it may be a shrub, tree, or ornamental type of grass. Whenever possible information will be provided to help demonstrate the value per square foot for each plant mentioned.

Ground covers of all sorts can provide some amazing returns as they continue to grow in popularity each year. Ground covers are always an attractive landscaping option because they require little maintenance and water. It can take up to a year to get them to grow large enough to sell, but considering they are ridiculously cheap to begin growing, usually about $1 per gallon pot, less if you can strike a deal to buy immature plants in bulk. Four of those one gallon pots equals one square foot when mature which wholesales at $3 per square foot, and retails around $5. Either way it is a nice return.