When I was a less experienced gardener, I was intimidated by bare-root ... to plant the tree a little higher. Don’t mound the soil around the trunk. Spread the roots out and backfill with ...

At the very least, you should buy them in winter and be prepared to plant as soon as the ground thaws, before the trees come out of dormancy. Here’s why. Some local retail nurseries stock bare-root ...

During the fall, they settled on a multi-graph apple tree and placed an order with a local garden center for a bare-root tree grafted ... before plants begin leafing out, we have the opportunity ...