How do you Plant Bare-Root Plants? Bare-root plants are plants not growing in a container and are packaged and sold with a moist material surrounding their roots to protect them until planting.

The weather may be cool and the days short, but it’s great gardening time in San Diego. Plant now and you’ll soon be picking tart-sweet apples, juicy peaches, plump grapes, garnet-colored strawberries ...

You may have seen the term “bare root plants” in nursery catalogs and websites and wondered what it means. Basically, it’s exactly what it sounds like: Plants are shipped without soil or a container.

Find out when to plant peonies as bare-root starts, then use these tips to get your plants off to a strong start. You may be in harvest mode in autumn, but don’t forget there’s still planting to do ...

Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden wish for 2025? Bare root fruit trees, ...

Pick cherries from a new tree as soon as possible by planting it at the right time and giving it a strong start.

Spending your winter dreaming up the perfect summer garden? Dream no more: Now’s the ideal time to plant bare-root perennials. Bare-root plants are harvested from their growing beds in the fall and ...

As soon as unsold Christmas trees move out of nurseries, bare root plants move in. Like Christmas trees, bare root plants are available within a limited season–while they are dormant through winter.

I ordered some bare root shrubs by mail and would like some advice on how to achieve the best results in planting them. — Ed Reilly, Warrenville Bare root plants are dug from the field while they are ...

Bare root plants are a great way to get less common plants that may be only available through catalog sources and can be real bargains if purchased by the bag locally. However, receiving bare root ...

Watch how an asparagus growing from a bare-root to crowns and young plant in this time lapse. The root was planting in a pot with soil and grow lights. It took about 10 days to see 2 crowns shot up ...