The ideal planting type depends on whether the tree is bare-root or container-grown, and other factors. Deciding when to plant a fruit tree depends on several factors. The ideal planting time for bare ...

If you want to plant fruit trees to enjoy the joys of homegrown harvests, the fall is a perfect time to do so. The ground ...

Bare root planting is the easiest and most cost-effective way to plant trees and shrubs. Pictured above is witch hazel, bare root on left and with container on right. Photo courtesy of Turnbull ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bare root planting is the easiest and most cost-effective way to plant trees and shrubs. Pictured above is witch hazel, bare root on left and with container on right. Photo courtesy of Turnbull ...

With the garden napping and chores diminished, now is a good time to browse catalogs for bare-root landscape plants. Container or balled-and-burlapped woody perennials can be pricey. But many ...

A good nursery tree, such this cedar tree that has been removed from its pot in New Paltz, N.Y., is only two to three times the height of its container with roots filling, but not overcrowded, in the ...

Senior Editor Mike LaFollette is an avid gardener who covers a variety of landscaping, lawn care and home remodeling topics for Angie’s List. Planting a tree is an easy task, but it takes more ...

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 ...

“All major fruit tree species tend to do better with spring planting,” Slack says. But it’s important to work around frost warnings. “Potted trees, if dormant, are fine once the soil thaws,” she adds.