Podcast: Bare Root Fruit Trees with Christy
This week on the podcast it's just you and me, gardenerds, and we're talking bare root fruit trees and perennial vegetables. Now is a great time to pre-order these items for your garden
Bare Root Strawberries arrive looking a little sad. A bundle of roots and dormant crowns.
Planting Bare Root Strawberries
Our strawberry patch thrived for about 7 years. We ignored common lore that you have to replace your strawberry plants every couple of years and did something different instead: every year or so, we'd lift the plants by the root ball, set them aside, then add 2 inches of compost and soil, then replant our existing berry plants. It worked like a charm for years. Recently they've grown tired (or maybe we have). Production has dropped, we forgot to refresh…