Whatever the variety, the first step to ensuring the enjoyment of your newly purchased tree for years to come is planting it ...

Plant raspberries in early spring in a full-sun location with well-drained, amended soil. Avoid planting raspberries where tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, or strawberries were recently grown. Proper ...

Question: I’ve ordered several bare root plants (like strawberries and asparagus) from a garden catalog. What’s the best way to handle them? Answer: Bare root plants are dug up when dormant and ...

I wrote a column on roses and now I am being inundated with offers for them. I am sure it has to do with AI. Why not? Artificial intelligence is all over these days, including in the garden. One ...

If you’re looking for a more economical way to fill in empty spots in your garden, bare root plants are a great option. They’re exactly what they sound like: Plants that are shipped without soil ...

Bill Dickerson plants a bare root rose. Also Rick Pudwell discusses choosing the correct plants. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, local rose expert Bill Dickerson demonstrates ...

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 ...

FEBRUARY IS NOW nearly over and nurseries are flush with bare-root items. Look at how the grass is greening up and growing. See how the bulbs are emerging and blooming. Notice the buds are swelling on ...

I hold a weird duality in my gardener soul once February rolls around. On the one hand, the tantalizing signs of spring perk up my mood, and I get carried away by daydreams of early sowing and early ...

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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 ...