To find existing plant care:

Find Plant Care By Plant

Getting Started Is Easy - Here's How:

There are a number of ways to find free care instructions which can be sent to your profile page. Everywere you see this watering can icon it means there is Plant Care Advice available.  Just click on the icon to view.

It's the future of Plant Care - don't be left behind - take advantage of this fantastic system. Get Started Now or Contact Us Now For More Information!

View Plant Care By Group or Newest

Getting Started Is Easy - Here's How:

1. Go to our Plant Care Hub.
2. Click on the Plant Group you're interested in and scroll down to see a list of what's available and for which climate zone it's been created for.
3. View the Plant Care and decide which instructions best fit your climate zone & gardening habits.
4. Click the "Use" button to have the instructions sent directly to your "My Profile" page.
5. Review your "My Plant Care" to see what you should be doing that month in
   YOUR garden for YOUR plants.

There are a number of ways to find free care instructions which can be sent to your profile page. Everywere you see this watering can icon it means there is Plant Care Advice available.  Just click on the icon to view.

It's the future of Plant Care - don't be left behind - take advantage of this fantastic system. Get Started Now or Contact Us Now For More Information!

Find Regional Plant Care By Who Created It

Getting Started Is Easy - Here's How:

1. You can find Plant Care by who created them on our Plant Care Provider page.
2. Scroll through the different people who have created regional plant care instructions. You can see where they're from and what zone they're in.
3. Click on the icon like this on the right to see all of the available plant care from this provider.
4. Decide which instructions best fit your climate zone & gardening habits.
5. Click the "Use" button to have the instructions sent directly to your "My Profile" page.
6. Review your "My Plant Care" to see what you should be doing that month in
   YOUR garden for YOUR plants.

There are a number of ways to find free care instructions which can be sent to your profile page. Everywere you see this watering can icon it means there is Plant Care Advice available.  Just click on the icon to view.

Do you have a local expert or garden center you'd like to participate? Let us know and we'll contact them and try to get them to participate.

 It's the future of Plant Care - don't be left behind - take advantage of this fantastic system. Get Started Now or Contact Us Now For More Information!

Find existing plant care:

Wouldn't it be great if you could say - "we have free monthly care reminders for this plant which can automatically sent to you if you'd like". Well now you can with our Monthly on demand, Plant Care Sharing System. We've developed a way to use YOUR plant care knowledge and deliver it to your customers, and to use it to get more customers.

Does a scenario like this keep you awake at night?: A customer is walking around the nursery, asks your staff how you take care of this plant, they say something like, I'm not sure, or it's easy, just fertilize it when it needs it or ‘keep it watered', this doesn't instill confidence, the customer won't remember, and it may even lose a sale, or maybe your customer decides against buying the higher price plant because of the fear of failure! Even worse, what happens when a potential customer asks someone and they give the wrong information, and you lose credibility and repeat customers. It's almost assured that SOMEONE on your staff knows the answer, but how do you make sure that CORRECT information is passed on to your customers, and they feel confident in your answer. Instead of pushing your clients to a book or other resource for this information (maybe even your competitor), now you can provide it yourself. Maybe you have plant care instructions you've created which you hand out to your customers, these are fine, but they get lost, or they're not all in one place, and often they're not put into monthly tasks, our system solves this problem.

All you need to do is complete an easy to use form which lets your customer know when to do any or all of 14 different tasks, including when to buy, plant, fertilize, prune, sow seeds and water.

With this system you can tell your customers:

• What products do you sell and would like to recommend?
• What local climate issues affect plant care?
• When's the right time to buy this plant at your store?
• When's the right time to plant seeds (and buy them at your store)?
• When's the right time to fertilize? With what product? When's the right time to Prune? with what tool?

You may be saying this seems like a lot of work - not really, you already know how to care for the plants you sell, you just need to complete our form which breaks it into monthly reminders - and we'll help you in any way we can. In our system you're not telling them HOW to do it, just WHEN to do it. So it's not hard, you're simply using our system to tell them in a new better way what you ALREADY tell them.

Once you've finished a plant once - you don't have to ever redo it (unless you want to), so you can start with a few of the most common plants you use and gradually create more. In addition we've made it very simple to create monthly care reminders and COPY and PASTE them to other Plants, so you may create ONE set of instructions for Woody Perennials and easily to all plants which qualify.You can create reminders over time - don't have to do all the plants at once, so one week you do Palms, then next Roses, the next Salvias - before you know it you'll have your whole nursery done!

In addition, the majority of your business is coming from the local area and the climate which is unique to your location. Small differences in plant care timing can really make a difference. Our system embraces this issue, and takes your expertise and leverages it to increase sales.

Plant Care Features:

• Completely Customizable to your Organization.
• You absolutely do not have to have any advanced computer knowledge. All you need to do is be able to have access to the Internet, and be able to write (a little), cut and paste.
• You have complete control over the content you deliver.
• Company spotlight, including description of your nursery, products you sell, contact information, logo, links to your website (if you have one) and much more.
• Covers 14 critical tasks, including when to fertilize, prune, water, treat for disease or pests and much more.

Plant Care Advantages:

• Your expertise = more sales.
• Leverage your knowledge (you already have this, we're just helping you communicate it to your customers).
• Increase your brand awareness - your name and logo is seen every time people review instructions either on their personal profile of when we send personalized lists to their email.
• We promote Plant Care Providers in newsletters, forums and email blasts.
• Get NEW customers.
• We're constantly advertising and getting new gardeners to visit and join our website. These members are potential new customers for you.
• Increased web hits through links and heightened exposure.
• Care instructions are search-able by Sunset and USDA climate zones, region, or Company.
• We'll Provide hard copy design support - Posters, Handouts, Point of Sales brochures, stickers or plant tags.

You may be thinking, if we answer all the questions online, they won't come back into our nursery as often. We think it will be the exact opposite, your expertise will create success, which will create loyalty, which will equal more sales. In addition, most problems still need to be looked at in person, and if they trust you'll they'll be more likely to come to your store. Even if they got plants from somewhere else, if they go to you for care instructions you'll be gaining brand awareness, they will be seeing your company name and logo, and customers will be more likely to come to your facility for their next purchase, knowing that you will provide free care reminders for them.

You've done your design, you've installed all of these great plants and now the job's over, it's up to the client to take care of your hard work - wouldn't it be great if they automatically got a reminder each month FROM YOU about what care and maintenance they should be doing each month? Wouldn't it be great to automatically reach out to your clients through timely Plant Care Instructions? Don't you think your clients would love that value added service? Plus it's a little reminder each month that you're the person to come to if they need more work!

Instead of just leaving them on their own to care for their new plants or pushing your clients to a book or other resource for this information (maybe even your competitor), now you can provide it yourself. you just tell them to go TO YOUR Plant Care providers page and click a button for each plant you've just planted for them.

Maybe you have plant care instructions you’ve created which you hand out to your customers, these are fine and you can still use them (just put a little paragraph at the bottom with instructions to go to YOUR plant care page on www.theMulch.com), but they get lost, or they’re not all in one place, and often they’re not put into monthly tasks, and very rarely are they sent each month, our system solves this problem. Imagine how happy your clients will be when they get a reminder sent from you each month!

You may be saying this seems like a lot of work - not really, you probably already know how to care for the plants you use, you just need to complete our form which breaks it into monthly reminders - and we'll help you in any way we can.

Once you've finished a plant once - you don't have to ever redo it (unless you want to), so you can start with a few of the most common plants you use and gradually create more. In addition we've made it very simple to create monthly care reminders and COPY and PASTE them to other Plants, so you may create ONE set of instructions for Woody Perennials and easily to all plants which qualify.

• NO advanced computer knowledge needed! All you need to do is be able to have access to the Internet, and be able to write (a little), cut and paste.
• Completely customizable to your organization, your area, your plants and your expertise:
• You have complete control over the content you deliver.
• Company spotlight, including description , products and services you sell, contact information, logo, links to your website (if you have one) and much more.
• Covers 14 critical tasks, including when to fertilize, prune, water, treat for disease or pests and much more.

Advantages for using the Mulch:

• Leverage your existing knowledge
• Increase your company brand awareness
• Get New clients
• Make existing clients happy
• It's Free for your clients
• We'll promote you and your care instructions

Move into the 21st Century of gardening information with us - start now - contact us to help you get started!

It's Easy to Get Started - contact us online or call Mitch Shirts at 858 755 0698 to arrange for live support (that's right a real person on the phone!).

It's a great program, and we want you to participate, so don't hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Would you like to get more people to join your club? Do you have a specific expertise? Would you just like to help others be more successful in their gardens? Now you can!

Wouldn't it be great if you local gardeners could benefit from your knowledge? As a club you could say - "we have free monthly care reminders for this plant which can automatically sent to you if you'd like". Wouldn't that be a great way to help the gardening community and get a whole bunch of publicity at the same time?

• What products you recommend?
• What local climate issues affect plant care
• When to buy plants (maybe at your plant sale?)
• When to plant seeds
• When to fertilize... with what product
• When to Prune... with what tool

You may be saying this seems like a lot of work - not really, you already know how to care for the plants you sell, you just need to complete our form which breaks it into monthly reminders - and we'll help you in any way we can. In our system you're not telling them HOW to do it, just WHEN to do it. So it's not hard, you're simply using our system to tell them in a new better way what you ALREADY tell them.

Once you've finished a plant once - you don't have to ever redo it (unless you want to), so you can start with a few of the most common plants you use and gradually create more. In addition we've made it very simple to create monthly care reminders and COPY and PASTE them to other Plants, so you may create ONE set of instructions for Woody Perennials and easily to all plants which qualify. You can create reminders over time - don't have to do all the plants at once, so one week you do Palms, then next Roses, the next Salvias - before you know it you'll have your whole nursery done!

In addition, the majority of your membership is coming from the local area and the climate which is unique to your location. Small differences in plant care timing can really make a difference. Our system embraces this issue, and takes your expertise and leverages it to increase sales.

Features:

• Completely Customizable to your Organization.
• You absolutely do not have to have any advanced computer knowledge. All you need to do is be able to have access to the Internet, and be able to write (a little), cut and paste.
• You have complete control over the content you deliver.
• Club spotlight, including description of your organization, contact information, logo, links to your website (if you have one) and much more.
• Covers 14 critical tasks, including when to fertilize, prune, water, treat for disease or pests and much more.

Advantages of Using our System:

• Leverage your knowledge (you already have this, we're just helping you communicate it to your members and the public).
• Increase your brand awareness - your name and logo is seen every time people review instructions either on their personal profile of when we send personalized lists to their email.
• We promote Plant Care Providers in newsletters, forums and email blasts.
• Get NEW members.
• We're constantly advertising and getting new gardeners to visit and join our website. These members are potential new members for you.
• Increased web hits through links and heightened exposure.
• Care instructions are search-able by Sunset and USDA climate zones, region, or Company.
• We'll Provide hard copy design/support - Posters, Handouts, Point of Sales brochures, stickers or plant tags.

Wouldn't it be great if you could say - "we have free monthly care reminders for this plant which can automatically sent to you if you'd like". Well now you can with our Monthly on demand, Plant Care Sharing System. We've developed a way to use YOUR plant care knowledge and deliver it to your customers, and to use it to get more customers.

All you need to do is complete an easy to use form which lets your customer know when to do any or all of 14 different tasks, including when to buy, plant, fertilize, prune, sow seeds and water.

With this system you can tell customers:

• What products you recommend?
• What local climate issues affect plant care
• When to buy plants (maybe at your plant sale?)
• When to plant seeds
• When to fertilize... with what product
• When to Prune... with what tool

You may be saying this seems like a lot of work - not really, you already know how to care for the plants you sell, you just need to complete our form which breaks it into monthly reminders - and we'll help you in any way we can. In our system you're not telling them HOW to do it, just WHEN to do it. So it's not hard, you're simply using our system to tell them in a new better way what you ALREADY tell them.

Once you've finished a plant once - you don't have to ever redo it (unless you want to), so you can start with a few of the most common plants you use and gradually create more. In addition we've made it very simple to create monthly care reminders and COPY and PASTE them to other Plants, so you may create ONE set of instructions for Woody Perennials and easily to all plants which qualify. You can create reminders over time - don't have to do all the plants at once, so one week you do Palms, then next Roses, the next Salvias - before you know it you'll have your whole nursery done!

In addition, a large portion of your business is coming from the internet and our system provide countless links back to your ordering information.

Features of the Mulch:

• Completely Customizable to your Organization.
• You absolutely do not have to have any advanced computer knowledge. All you need to do is be able to have access to the Internet, and be able to write (a little), cut and paste.
• You have complete control over the content you deliver.
• Company spotlight, including description of your nursery, products you sell, contact information, logo, links to your website (if you have one) and much more.
• Covers 14 critical tasks, including when to fertilize, prune, water, treat for disease or pests and much more.

Advantages of using the Mulch:

• Leverage your knowledge (you already have this, we're just helping you communicate it to your customers).
• Increase your brand awareness - your name and logo is seen every time people review instructions either on their personal profile of when we send personalized lists to their email.
• We promote Plant Care Providers in newsletters, forums and email blasts.
• Get NEW customers.
• We're constantly advertising and getting new gardeners to visit and join our website. These members are potential new customers for you.
• Increased web hits through links and heightened exposure.
• Care instructions are search-able by Sunset and USDA climate zones, region, or Company.
• We'll Provide hard copy design/support - Posters, Handouts, Point of Sales brochures, stickers or plant tags.
• Your Expertise = more sales.

Question: You may be thinking, why do this on their website - we have our own website and we already have plant care sheets? Answer: Think of this as a fantastic marketing tool in the world of Social Media. We're constantly growing and getting new members from all over the world - these could be your new customers. We've developed a wonderful web based application which you can use and customize to your needs. The better question is WHY WOULDN'T YOU DO IT! Even if they got plants from somewhere else, if they go to you for care instructions you'll be gaining brand awareness, they will be seeing your company name and logo, and customers will be more likely to come to your website for their next purchase, knowing that you will provide FREE care reminders for them.

Budget Cuts are hurting Master Gardener services all over the U.S. We invite you to use our new system to help local gardeners benefit from your knowledge? As an organization you could say - "we have free monthly care reminders for this plant which can automatically sent to you if you'd like". Wouldn't that be a great way to help the gardening community and get a whole bunch of publicity at the same time? You wouldn't have to do any fancy or expensive web design, no hosting fees, just a great way to help local home gardeners.

• What products you recommend?
• What local climate issues affect plant care
• When to buy plants (maybe at your plant sale?)
• When to plant seeds
• When to fertilize... with what product
• When to Prune... with what tool

You may be saying this seems like a lot of work - not really, you already know how to care for the plants you sell, you just need to complete our form which breaks it into monthly reminders - and we'll help you in any way we can. In our system you're not telling them HOW to do it, just WHEN to do it. So it's not hard, you're simply using our system to tell them in a new better way what you ALREADY tell them.

Once you've finished a plant once - you don't have to ever redo it (unless you want to), so you can start with a few of the most common plants you use and gradually create more. In addition we've made it very simple to create monthly care reminders and COPY and PASTE them to other Plants, so you may create ONE set of instructions for Woody Perennials and easily to all plants which qualify. You can create reminders over time - don't have to do all the plants at once, so one week you do Fruit Trees, then next Roses, the next Salvias - before you know it you'll have your whole list of the most popular local plants completed!

In addition, the majority of your membership is coming from the local area and the climate which is unique to your location. Small differences in plant care timing can really make a difference. Our system embraces this issue, and takes your expertise and leverages it to increase sales.

Features:

• Completely Customizable to your Organization.
• You absolutely do not have to have any advanced computer knowledge. All you need to do is be able to have access to the Internet, and be able to write (a little), cut and paste.
• You have complete control over the content you deliver.
• Club spotlight, including description of your organization, contact information, logo, links to your website (if you have one) and much more.
• Covers 14 critical tasks, including when to fertilize, prune, water, treat for disease or pests and much more.

Advantages of using the Mulch:

• Leverage your knowledge (you already have this, we're just helping you communicate it to your members and the public).
• Increase your brand awareness - your name and logo is seen every time people review instructions either on their personal profile of when we send personalized lists to their email.
• We promote Plant Care Providers in newsletters, forums and email blasts.
• Get NEW members.
• We're constantly advertising and getting new gardeners to visit and join our website. These members are potential new members for you.
• Increased web hits through links and heightened exposure.
• Care instructions are search-able by Sunset and USDA climate zones, region, or Company.
• We'll Provide hard copy design support - Posters, Handouts, Point of Sales brochures, stickers or plant tags.

It's a great program, and we want you to participate, so don't hesitate to contact us with any questions.