Bare-root trees need to be planted quickly to keep their exposed roots from drying out. Here's the best time to plant so ...

Planting. Fruit trees should be planted about as deep as they were growing in their nursery pot, but high enough so that all ...

When I was a less experienced gardener, I was intimidated by bare-root fruit trees. Piles of sticks bedded down in sawdust would show up in the nurseries at the new year, and I would watch serious and ...

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 ...

Question: I’m going to be planting some fruit trees this spring, and I’m wondering if it’s better for me to buy the trees in a big pot from a nursery or if I should get them from a mail order place ...

Fall has arrived and many gardeners soon will be thinking about planting shrubs and trees. Fall is a great time to consider planting a young fruit tree. Most fruit trees consist of a rootstock, which ...

If you think you don't have space to grow a fruit tree it's time to think again. Now you can get a great choice of easy and reliable small and dwarf varieties of fruit trees in bare root form that ...

Trees grown in pots end up with a root system that is coiled up in the shape of the pot, constricting growth once the roots are in the ground. Even if you cut them apart and uncoil them, as any ...