This isn't the best time to be planting bare root trees, but it can still be done. Some nurseries still send out bare root stock at all times of the year simply due to the fact that the shipping is less expensive. Planting is actually quite easy. Even keeping your bare root trees viable and healthy if they arrive before you're ready to- plant is pretty simple stuff.
If your tree(s) arrive before you're actually ready to plant, you can "heel them in". All that amounts to is covering the roots with a good layer of soil and getting that soil nice and wet. The tree(s) will stay good for a week or so until you are ready to do your planting.
In the video below, I'm planting 20 bare root "rootstock" trees for cherry and peach grafting at some later date in a raised bed. Here, in the high desert of northern Nevada, planting in my native dirt amounts to a death sentence for ANY young tree.
If your tree(s) arrive before you're actually ready to plant, you can "heel them in". All that amounts to is covering the roots with a good layer of soil and getting that soil nice and wet. The tree(s) will stay good for a week or so until you are ready to do your planting.
In the video below, I'm planting 20 bare root "rootstock" trees for cherry and peach grafting at some later date in a raised bed. Here, in the high desert of northern Nevada, planting in my native dirt amounts to a death sentence for ANY young tree.
