4 smart ways to turn your green fingers into cash
Money Making Insider | 26 August, 2011 | Hot Topics:
4 smart ways to turn your green fingers into cash
1. How a sack of soil and 15 old yoghurt pots could make you an easy R300
Many people simply leave it too late in the year to start planting seeds and end up forking out far more cash for seedlings or mature plants. If you have too many seedlings to plant in your garden this year – try selling them instead. All you need is some good potting compost and a collection of old yoghurt pots with holes poked in the bottom. Fill the pots with the compost and simply transfer your spare seedlings into them. Grow them for a couple more weeks in the pots until they have reached a good size. Sell them at local church fairs or boot sales and charge between R5 and R20.
2. Make an easy 50% profit using your flower-arranging skills
Selling hanging baskets is a great way to make a bit of extra money – especially if you have an eye for design or flower arranging.
- Use peat or a peat-based compost. This will make handling the baskets easier and safer.
- Start by planting around the base of the basket first. Trailing lobelia, nepeta or antirrhinums are excellent plants for this – about six plants around the basket.
- Then plant the top. Popular plants include:
- ivy leaf
- Geraniums
- Helichrysum silver or gold leaf
- Petunias
- Sell your baskets for R150-R200 each at flea markets. This should be around 50-100% more than what they cost you.
3. How you can turn Keith Kirsten’s success into your own garden consultancy business
You may not be Keith Kirsten. But you may have plenty of creative gardening ideas. If so, you could turn your know-how and enthusiasm into a new business venture.
a. Advertise your services by placing notices in your local libraries and garden centres.
b. When you visit a garden to discuss a potential job, spend plenty of time with your client asking them about their needs:
- Do they have children?
- Do they want a cottage garden?
- Are they interested in growing vegetables and herbs?
- Do they prefer a low maintenance patio-style garden?
c. Type up your suggestions and make a detailed plan showing where you think things should go.
d. Include a list of suggested plants and give an estimated cost for any major purchases such as buying patio slabs or turf for large areas. You can charge upwards of R700 for this kind of service, depending on your level of expertise and the size of the gardens.
4. Like gardening? You could earn R50 for a couple of hours of pottering around in your neighbours’ flowerbeds
People are happy to pay between R50 and R150 a day for a cleaner. It’s physical work they feel needs to be done. But they don’t have the time or energy to perform these tasks themselves. Many people feel the same about their gardens. They love the idea of a garden and then find that they do not have enough spare time to do it justice. Gardens can quickly become overgrown and feel like an oppressive responsibility to their owners. This is a perfect opportunity if you have plenty of spare time and enjoy gardening.
- Offer to mow lawns, trim hedges, do some weeding and generally keep gardens tidy and manageable.
- Charge from R50 for a couple of hours, for a basic tidy-up, through to R150 for more creative maintenance.
- Advertise in local neighbourhoods with a lot of owner-occupied properties.
- Give business cards to your satisfied customers – so they can pass them on to their neighbours.
Source: The Big Fat Blue Book
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