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Transcript: Bare Root Fruit Trees
Late winter is an excellent to be planting fruit trees, vines, and bushes. It's a good time because it gives the plants a chance to get roots established before the warm weather arrives. It's also a good time because in winter you can plant bare root fruit trees.Bare root fruit trees are less expensive than container grown trees, and if you plant them right and give them good care, they'll do just as well. Now it's very important to select a variety that's well-adapted to your area. You can contact your county extension office for a list of suggested varieties, or you can online to the Gardening With Skip website where we have some links posted to find a good variety for you.
If you purchase a bare root tree during the dormant season, it's very important that you keep these roots moist. They should be pack in wet sawdust, moist sand, or even wet paper towels. And if you get them home and you can't plant them right away, dig a hole, put a little soil over them to keep them moist, put them in an out-of-the-sun spot, behind the barn or the shed, or even in a bucket with a little soil in it. That will hold them until you can get them planted. Most fruit needs full sun or close to it, so give them a good, sunny location and don't forget, select a good variety before you go shopping because it's important to have good varieties that will do good in your area.
With your commonsense tip for a fruitful endeavor, I'm Skip Richter.
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July 6, 2006