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Teach Yourself

Learning a few basic skills from gardening books can help you make extra money, the amount you can make depends on how much garden space you have. You can make a decent amount of money even if you live in an apartment if you have windowsill space near natural light or unused shelving.

For example, taking small cuttings from leylandi conifer trees and planting them in small pots until they are about 12 inches long can earn you around £6 per tree. If you can grow 100 in small pots you have made yourself £600. Conifers are the easiest trees to grow and they grow fast and big. Once they get to get to 12 inches sell them free on Facebook marketplace and have customers collect them from you. The cost to you is nothing. If you don’t want customers coming to your home offer next day shipping adding the next day delivery costs and the packaging box to the price. 

The amount of people that buy conifer trees is vast and constant. They act as hedging and many people want to cover the borders of their gardens for privacy. They act as shady parts in the garden and with hot summers many more people are looking to create shaded areas in the garden. They act as a defence for flooding and act as a natural habitat for garden birds. They stay green all year round which is always a bonus for those that want all year-round colour in the gardens.

For every foot they grow you can treble the price so if you have the space in your garden to grow these you can make a vast amount of money. The demand for conifers is constant every month people buy these so it is not a seasonal thing. Garden centres charge around £30 for a 12-inch conifer. Garden books about plant and tree cuttings can show you the angle to take cutting, the best time to take them and how to grow them. The glossy pages in the books are so much better than the images you find online as adjustments to the screen size and colours often take out the sharpness of the images. Professionally photography in the books always looks so much more appealing than from a phone, table or iPad. Books also give you other ideas than you can create from gardening of which you can make a decent living from.

You don’t need to buy any plants to begin with as you can take cuttings from public trees near where you live. Wooded areas like forests and parks etc are ideal for taking cuttings. You can literally take hundreds and it wouldn’t have an impact. A few cheap pots and a bag of compost and away you go.