by Lynette Alice

Created on: May 27, 2009

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, 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.

Ornamental grasses like Pampas grass cost a little more to start out in some cases, but they remain in high demand because of their versatility. The biggest profits are obviously realized when grown from seeds, but if you are willing to sacrifice a little profit to to start out with smaller immature plants that just some nurturing to get big enough for sale in short order, you can still do fairly well. As there are hundreds of varieties of ornamental grass you can find plenty of options for any growing climate and desired reasonable profit range.

One more option in this genre of plants is to try your hand at landscaping shrubs and trees. In order to grow tress from saplings like maples or cottonwoods, you will need a fair amount of space and TLC. The loss rate regarding saplings can be problematic at times, but the profits realized on survivors can more than make up for that. The downside with these can

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