March is the moment for planting bare-root trees. Miss it, and you effectively lose a year of establishment, root growth and summer vigor. While the soil is cool and moist but no longer frozen, roots ...

Give your trees a head start. Planting bare-root trees in March gives you the best chance for success, as trees are still dormant. March offers the best selection of healthy, affordable bare-root ...

Fall might seem like the time to wind down your gardening, but smart growers know it’s actually the perfect time to start something new—especially if that “something” is a fruit tree. Planting ...

There are several advantages to planting bare-root trees: they are usually less expensive, easier for gardeners to transport, and they will grow their roots entirely into native soil (rather than ...

Bare-root fruit trees don’t look like much, but there’s a lot of promise in the dormant plants. Their limbs are free of leaves and their roots have been cleaned of all soil to make shipping them ...

Instant gratification is a feeling we all enjoy and have, frankly, become accustomed to. We seek it in many areas of our lives, but one thing we should all consider taking our time with is planting a ...

If you have chosen trees, shrubs or perennials you’d like to add to your garden this spring, consider trying to buy them as bare-root plants. “They can cost less, because nobody’s paying to ship heavy ...

Learn the correct root to shoot ratio for planting new trees Dr. Robyn Puffenbarger explains the advantages of planting bare root tree whips from the Virginia Department of Forestry and why it is ...

Bare root trees and shrubs, as the name suggests, are not sold in a pot or balled and burlapped. At the nursery bare root plants are grown in the ground, harvested as young plants, and sold without ...