It’s time for winter bare-root planting

NOVEMBER heralds the start of the bare-root planting season so now is the ideal time for reviewing all your hedging, soft fruit, top fruit, shrub and other deciduous tree requirements.

Bare-root planting is basically garden jargon for plants that are grown in open ground and then lifted in the dormant season and sold on free of soil, compost and pots enclosing their root systems.

Bare root plants are cheaper to buy than their container-grown counterparts and are certainly easier to transport, faster to transplant and generate less waste with plastic pots. If you intend to move, newly plant or replace woody perennials this winter, November through to March is a good time to take action.