Which option is best for you depends on the planting time, your budget, and other factors.

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 ...

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 ...

These dormant trees grow strong roots.

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 ...

To many gardeners, January is shopping season. Every day, it seems, we find a new seed or plant catalog in our mailboxes (both snail and e-mail). These catalogs offer a wealth of information on all ...

In the ancient world, one of the many ways kings taxed their subjects was based on the harvest of their subjects’ trees. According to a website sponsored by Ithaka, which describes itself as “a ...