 About Us
Welcome! Pull up a chair and let me introduce us to you. We are Jerry and Sandy Miller, the owners of jerrysplantsonline.com, which is a part of Po'Folks Ozark Mountain Enterprises. I'm better known as the "Hillbilly Gardener". We live in the beautiful Ozarks of Missouri where we raised our two children and are now helping to raise our two beautiful granddaughters. I have been gardening and enjoying the outdoors for more than 45 years now and enjoy sharing with other gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts alike. For me gardening and outdoor living go hand in hand and are each an extension of the other. I started web-surfing for information to complement and expand the vast amount of knowledge I already possessed soon after the Internet began. Back then, information on gardening and outdoor living was hard to come by and what there was, was pretty lean and had very little meat on it (so to speak). Since that time, I have amassed a lot of information to complement my own and it is my desire to pass on as much as others will accept. Gardening is indeed a relaxing pass time, but like most folks, I am not content to merely garden. I want to be the best gardener I can be and knowledge is power over the future of my outdoor world. Recent health issues have caused me to learn first-hand the importance of learning new ways to enjoy gardening and the outdoors. I have learned the importance of learning ways to do things in a way that has less physical impact on the body and how important gardening and the outdoors can be on a persons physical and mental well-being. The act of gardening and enjoying the outdoors can have a huge impact on ones mobility, the ability to enjoy life and add value to it. The act of raising a garden and enjoying the outdoors lends itself to giving people with mobility issues a sense of ability and self-worth. For this reason, it has become a goal of ours to promote methods that promote mobility and accomplishment for those with physical impairment. I have come to enjoy the many ways that valuable information comes to me. Whether through practical experience, well written articles or life-experiences passed on from others, it is all good and useful. I enjoy hearing from others about their experiences and passing these valuable tips on to others. This is why I have gone to great lengths to make it as easy as possible to contact me through our websites. I also enjoy letting all readers know who was gracious enough to share this information. One thing that has always annoyed me is advertising, and the web is no different. For many years I have been surfing the web, investigating the many wonderful products that are available to gardeners and outdoor lovers alike. Many of these can be found nowhere else and certainly not in those big box stores. Through my endeavors I have come to the realization that it can be very time-consuming and often frustrating to find a particular item, and when you find it, you don't know whether or not to believe what they say about the product. I have also come to realize that there is a seemingly infinite number of unique and practical items available to us today as gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts alike, but they are often overlooked or elusive because of the vast amount of "stuff" on the internet today. To compound the matter even more these products and/or articles are often buried inside countless dribble and other content "stuff" on the various websites where they can be found. Or the website seems bent on pummeling me about the head and shoulders to "buy today" or something "BAD" will happen! With our newest website, I have chosen to focus more on useful information than arm-twisting to sell you something. However, like most websites, yes we do rely on folks purchasing "stuff" in order to remain in business, pay the bills and keep this website going. However, when we decide to start promoting products again, we will only present items that I believe will interest you and that I myself have purchased, or would purchase if the need arose. I'm not at all interested in promoting for the sake of promoting. No arm twisting, hard selling, deceiving or screaming at you. You, the reader, are intelligent enough to make up your own mind as to whether or not you want or need the product and you don't need to be beat up or mislead in order to get you to buy something. Our humble website is not the biggest or the best yet and maybe never will be, but we're striving for it to be your number one choice for gardening and outdoor living products and information. If you are a returning visitor to our original website, please accept my apologies if our original efforts were lacking and heartfelt thanks for returning to give us another try. We will continually strive to improve this site and meet your expectations, so PLEASE check back often and watch us grow. It is our goal to continually add new things that will assist you in your gardening and outdoor living efforts. If you have a comment or suggestion - please go to our "contact us" form and let us know. We would love to hear from you and welcome the comments and suggestions. If you like what you see here and would like more useful information, reader stories and comments as well as useful tips, tricks and suggestions, check out our newsletter - the "Garden of Weedin". We have tried to make it different from any other newsletter you have seen before. So sign up for the "Garden of Weedin" newsletter today and decide for yourself. 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