SECOND YEAR Nursery business - preparing for a MAKE or BREAK year.

[@evelynparker4934]

So happy for you. Keep on Keeping on. I am starting from scratch to try for a small nursery.

[@greenry415]

Nice your vloger video 👍

[@SoThatsGoot]

Best wishes, Craig! I believe in you guys; I know you're gonna crush it

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Much appreciated!

[@amsohn1]

Wowzers it's so fantastic to see how y'all's goals and dreams have become realized... thanks for continuing to be an inspiration. Blessings ❤

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Thanks!! Still all such a work in progress.

[@ChanceHubbell]

I love the Green Giants. I have 13 planted with plans to add more this year. Also have 11 rooted cuttings that I'll be up putting this spring. Your videos gave my the confidence to try and succeed growing these beauties. Ty.

[@anniathome]

It is such a pleasure watching you all be successful! 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉. I pray God continues to richly bless your efforts to share His lovely creation with others!

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Thank you so much!!

[@lindakay8171]

Love the Hut, looks great!! Wow, glad the sale of the blueberry and fruit trees went so well. Good luck with this season, I'm sure it will go well.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

I think I could sell all the blueberry plants I could possibly get my hands on.

[@johnt3728]

A lot of hard work and everything looks great. I work at a Garden Center myself and I can’t wait for spring. We still have snow on the ground but it won’t be long.❤

[@Synthophonatic]

I watch your videos every day. I told my wife "It's like being in school., but in my recliner." Personally, I would love to see a "date stamp" (?) to be able to relate to the time of year for activities. "We did these 6 months ago..." doesn't help me if I don't know when 6 months ago was. Maybe I'm just being selfish. In any event I REALLY enjoy your videos. They've been a great help for my wife & I in our new nursery business.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Not a bad idea… will I remember it when I’m editing??

[@Synthophonatic]

@@savvydirtfarmerLOL! You're too young to be forgetting stuff.

[@kennyjohnson6875]

Hope all goes well for you this spring .

[@KarlKarsnark]

Lookin' good. I put blueberries and a bare root fruit tree in the yard this year too. Here's wishing y'all the best. I have a feeling the "problem" may be keeping up with demand, which is the best problem you can have. Cheers from N. FL.!

[@Growing-Our-Retirement]

It’s amazing what will happen in the next 4-6 weeks! You have done so much and should have a great year!

[@Lynnhopeacres]

Looking forward to seeing the season opening going well for you and the family!

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Me too!! Thank you

[@PaulBengtsson]

Everything looks amazing. I look forward to see how thing turns out his year. Good luck.

[@nel6211]

When you go big you just have to keep going. Hope you got a little rest this winter because the real work is about to start. Good luck!

[@savvydirtfarmer]

You got that right!

[@amandabottoms1]

Cheers to a productive and plentiful year!

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Thanks!!

[@crystalruth3733]

Thanks for sharing!! Everything looks awesome. You should make a little sign and put on there so people know where to go and a few potted up plants next to your posts with hanging pots off the post in the summer would look so awesome! Just a suggestion. Love all that you guys do!! Keeps us hopeful and excited for our own!

[@TreasureFiend]

Everything looks wonderful, all your hard work definitely shows.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Thank you so much!

[@teresaholland4790]

Nice covered patio

[@CoffeeCakeCrumble]

Check out that slim down! I have a lead on someone retiring from their nursery business and I'm in line to get the hoop house frames (no covers) so I can expand as well. I'm excited, you're excited, we're all excited!💪💪💪

[@savvydirtfarmer]

YES!! That sounds great.

[@alanohagan6999]

Looking forward to following this story for another year ❤

[@savvydirtfarmer]

We’re looking forward to telling it!

[@christophertrotz9362]

Love your content!!! Thanks for all the inspiration to start my own backyard nursery.

[@marlenemullet]

Love to see the progress on your nursery! Very inspiring!

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@awakenacres]

Wow, you are quite the go getter! I’m still waiting for my potting mix to thaw out! Hope you have a great growing season!💚

[@savvydirtfarmer]

YES!! Even here in the deep south, frozen potting soil can be an issue. I've lost a lot of days because of it, but it doesn't last long. Can't imagine being further north where it freezes weeks/months at a time.

[@lydiamclaughlin7100]

@@savvydirtfarmer lol Canadian here....oh the stories I could tell you of how cold it can get here!

[@AngryPeasants]

Looks pro, very cool guys!

[@danradtke1663]

Wow awesome sale. Good to have some left for moving forward. Great job on the hut. Don't forget to have in ground mother plants that grow much better for divisions. You guys are doing awesome. 👍happy 2024. Don't forget landscapers for your green giant replacements for their clients. Beautiful work Odem family. Wish I could be more of a hands on part of your nursery but hope my ideas help you grow as well.

[@dwightjones3114]

Love your videos. Trying to kick start my own small nursery with native plants for my area. Also like that Savvy Daughter's tin house is in the background!

[@Greg-su8gt]

Keep it up. You're going to do fine.

[@Leurn989]

Could you go over the prices of your plants and how you determine your prices?

[@anitahouse3600]

So proud of what y'all have accomplished! How are your veggie starts doing? Hoping to get to come by and see you in April. I plan to come visit family south of y'all.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Veggies? Update vid coming soon.

[@lilyrosedaisyvioletsweetpe1207]

💚💚

[@DachiaTheDogMom]

So glad to see everything (almost at lest) seems to have survived the brunt of winter. It's a concern of mine up here in th Black Hills. While I'm zone 5, almost everything else is zone 4... and I had read that in order for something to survive a winter in a container, it should be hardy to the next zone colder than you are... and while I'm always looking for zone 4 perennials, it doesn't seem like there is a lot to choose from. I thought I might have o throw a fw straw bales of a few groups of pots... I might still... but it is a LITTLE less worrying watching this.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Covering perennials with plastic in a low tunnel will help a TON. I'd say it gains you a "zone."

[@wordvendor1]

Your fruit sale was a success, I'd say! Will you do it again in the fall? Looks like your diet is working! So glad to see your success, and pray that it continues.💜

[@John_GGG]

He is looking leaner. With a new spring ‘do?

[@savvydirtfarmer]

YES!! As of right now, I think there are only 14 trees left. I don't even care at this point... it was a great discovery!

[@savvydirtfarmer]

I think yall aren't used to seeing me without a hat... hair has been the same for 20 years.

[@hudson8865]

Thank you.

[@paulnovak833]

If your daughter is interested in the business you should introduce her to micropropagation. Its such a powerful thing to learn and would make your operation unstoppable

[@teresaholland4790]

Jasmine is a climbing plant what you have as a gardenia they get huge and smell, so beautiful Hackaway they will always come back❤❤

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Should say, “cape jasmine”

[@birdoriginals5655]

do more green giants...then you can even sell to wholesalers when they run out....

[@cheezytaco1000]

Good luck for the upcoming year, I’m sure you’ll have a great year. I got one question, if I get green giant bare root liners now can I keep the around a bit before planting them or if I do plant them will they be ok outside in one gal pots. I’m in Massachusetts zone 6b

[@savvydirtfarmer]

They're fine outside right now. All mine look great... we had snow, below zero temps in January. No worries.

[@cheezytaco1000]

@@savvydirtfarmer I got a 12 by 12 sealed room in my basement that used to be used to grow ‘other stuff’ which has a mini split in there. I think I’m going to set up an indoor propagation room down there. Room even has exterior type doors with thresholds

[@larrycochrane1407]

What was the type of fertilizer you used? The little yellow balls.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Florikan

[@DorothyAdes]

Where did u get your screen for your hoop house?

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Check the link in the video description

[@robbinglass3822]

What is your best way of advertising?

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Facebook is all I use.

[@janinedyason2924]

I LOVE your videos. Wishing you an amazingly successful year. I have a question. At what point do you fertilize these dormant plants? Thank you.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Working on it today, actually. Now is a good time to apply slow release. Could do it any time in the next few weeks.

[@janinedyason2924]

Thank you!!

[@johnr7237]

What do you use as Staples to pin down the nursery fabric???

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Sod staples, aka landscape pins

[@brendareynolds2913]

Are you selling outsourcing. I would like to order limelights and arborvitaes to grow also looking for other plants you have

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Not at the time. I sold a ton of plants here over winter, but I don't have time to do any online selling now that Spring is right on top of me.

[@stevenfrey8034]

Craig, ae you still on your diet? You look like you lost weight?

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Yes, I like to think of it as "making a life change." Being "on a diet" is so temporary. And, thanks so much for asking!

[@stevenfrey8034]

@@savvydirtfarmer I quit eating sugar 5 weeks ago myself. Just doing that caused the weight to drop off quick.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

@@stevenfrey8034 Getting yourself healthier is not hard.

[@sleepersix]

How far are you from the city?

[@savvydirtfarmer]

10 miles or so

[@popandbob]

You've done a lot and wow does it make me jealous how much you can do without government interference! I have to get a development permit to have a retail area on my tree farm and the permit costs $500 with no structures allowed. If I add structures its now $750 for the permit and on top of that for the structures I have to get building permits, occupancy permits, and they require engineered drawings. Yuck! That's Canada for you though. Regulated to death.

[@savvydirtfarmer]

Move!! That suffocating

[@popandbob]

​@@savvydirtfarmerIf only it were that easy... Nowhere in Canada is any better so the only option to move is dealing with immigration into another country... which is way worse! The sad thing about my county and all these restrictions? My county is the least restrictive around!