Let’s get this on the table right away. Micro-greens are not spouts. What they really are, are the starts of vegetables. That is to say, the immature growth of plants with leaves and a root system. The key to micro-greens is that the tiny plants are harvested after they have grown for some time but have not reached full growth. This is usually in the range of just a few weeks and micro-green farming is growing just as fast as those tiny shoots that get snipped and tossed into salads. What … [Read more...]
Profitable Cash Crops You Can Grow At Home
There is a huge demand for various crops that you can grow at home to earn an extra income. There are six specific profitable cash crops that are ideal for backyard growers and they include the following: Salad greens - The top earning salad greens you can grow for profit include lettuce, arugula and Asian greens. Start up costs would include seeds which will run between $30 and $150 per pound and a pound of these seeds will cover an area between 1,500 and 10,000 square feet. So, if you were … [Read more...]
Grow Heirloom Tomatoes For Profit
You know I like to talk about turning plants and flowers into a source of income. Probably one of the reasons why I focus on this is because for most of us, we need to find a simple, yet interesting way to generate a few extra dollars. Whether you are on a fixed income already or are about to enter your retirement years one of the most popular vegetables available can be the cash crop you’re looking for. I’m talking about tomatoes. but not the ordinary red or green ones you see in your … [Read more...]
Grow Herbs For Fun And Profit
Herbs have been around for a long time and have historic connections to healing thanks to the various properties found in different plants. Herbs are also well known for cooking and cosmetic uses. As the trend of using fresh herbs in cooking continues to grow, so does the demand for growing them for sale. While the trend is still catching on in North America, Europeans routinely use four times as much herbs in cooking than Americans but as the benefits of using herbs becomes widely known, … [Read more...]
Turn Your Garlic Patch Into Money
Garlic. They call it the ‘mortgage lifter’ for a reason and it’s got nothing to do with vampires. Growing garlic on a part-time basis in your backyard garden can generate a rather significant revenue. The best part is that garlic is pretty easy to grow and also has a number of value-added opportunities attached to it. What makes garlic so interesting is that it is always in demand. In fact, garlic is only second to pepper when it comes to the frequency in which it is used around the world as … [Read more...]