MOORHEAD - Spring is here bringing planting season. Early spring between the time that the ground thaws but before bud break is one of two optimal times during the year for planting bare-root trees ...

Planting trees provides many benefits, including improved wildlife habitat, high-quality trees for timber or specialty wood products, re-vegetated buffers along streams to protect water quality, ...

Homeowners spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on gardening and landscaping each year. What may be surprising to the amateur gardener is that plants and even trees need not be that expensive.

Bare root plants are having a moment. These freshly dug, pot-free plants may look unassuming, but they’re affordable, sustainable, and surprisingly resilient — which explains why more gardeners are ...

Spending your winter dreaming up the perfect summer garden? Dream no more: Now’s the ideal time to plant bare-root perennials. Bare-root plants are harvested from their growing beds in the fall and ...

Spring is coming, and that means gardeners everywhere are daydreaming about making their yards look amazing for their neighbors, their customers and themselves. But before you head to the garden ...

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’re buying trees, shrubs, fruit bushes, roses, and even perennial flowers from a mail-order vendor, odds are the plants will show up “bare root,” i.e. without any soil around the roots.

FEBRUARY IS THE time for many a gardener to get busy in preparation for “spring gardening mania.” There are so many tasks to do from pruning, edging, sowing grass seed and never has there been a ...

Bare-root perennial plants often intimidate container gardeners because they arrive looking fragile or sometimes even dead, but it's actually not a bad thing. They are dormant plants sold without soil ...

Usually by this time of year, all of our potted and otherwise loose plants are tucked away for winter. Because we had such a dry and mild November and December, we left our plants outside and in the ...