Tribune Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden ...

Strawberries, a fruiting herbaceous plant, are usually sold as “runners”. These are bare root plants that form on the creeping stems of strawberries. Runners are severed, lifted and sold in ...

Adding to the problems, redtips began to succumb to a fatal disease called Entomosporium fungal leaf spot. First evidence was maroon speckles on the leaves. Next, branches would turn a pale green, ...

The cool, short days of winter usher in the bare-root planting season. Bare-root plants have been tended in commercial growing fields for several years, then dug and supplied to retailers with their ...

All benefits from prompt and proper planting. Bare root season is the best time to procure and install several types of ...

bringing together plant biologists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, to develop crops capable of durably storing carbon in the soil through enhanced root systems.

Careful wrapping – with moist straw or similar – is essential for successful transport from nursery to garden Roses, fruit trees and bushes and hedging plants are often sold as “bare root” plants.

Gardening is dynamic. It must adapt as each season becomes the next. Autumn became winter. Then, suddenly, the Christmas season became bare root season.