Add a teaspoon of Epsom salt to your soaking water. The added magnesium helps with transplant shock. If your roots have already broken dormancy(spouted), add some fish emulsion fertilizer to your soak as well. After planting, just water with the soaking water.
I wouldn't clip the top. I just got hostas. They have one top and multiple roots. I din't think he meant clipping the top. I'm pettry sure it would ruin the hosta. Thanks for the summary though.
Great video! Thank you Luke for always taking the time to go so in depth with your videos. Don't listen to the people who say they are too long. They are just right. The longer the better!
Thanks for this video, this explains why I've never been able to start plants from the bare root. I never soaked them! I didn't know. LOL. I'll check to see what you have next year. Thanks again for this info.
This was the first time I wanted to try asparagus plants. I ordered 2 and when I got them I realized that there were 4 in each package. I am so happy with them. I planted them a few days after I got them because of all the rain. It has been 2-3 wks and mine are doing great. They are 4-8 ins tall and one of them is over a foot tall. The ones I grew from seed are a foot tall, but a black worm got to them and ate all the ferns. Hoping they recover. Thanks for all you sell and for all your helpful tips. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!
Thank you, I received several milkweed in the mail and had no idea what to do with them. I already planted them and didn’t soak but there have been several days of rain and some fertilizer added to help. Lets hope they turn out well.
I ordered your bare root June bearing strawberries, soaked them and planted them and some are blooming! I was surprised since they shouldn't fruit till next year but they arrived healthy and strong. All were viable and woke up beautifully after being planted in the ground. I've never planted strawberries before, so I did a little CZcams research and learned what a hillock was and away we went. I now have a strawberry hill that will hopefully produce some good pickings! I also did the unthinkable and direct sewed (zone 8b) some of your tomato seeds and they are coming up nicely! Great product! Thanks, Luke!
This was honestly a very helpful video. It is straightforward and covers things that searches don't. I've always thought I had to keep the starts indoors until the weather was perfect. So, this was life changing for me and the starts I buy.
I literally just received bare root plants in the mail late tonight! And the instructions were a little confusing, and definitely didn't say to soak them. So thank you!
I bought several bare root trees from the arbor day foundation. Had nothing but problems with 2 big orders in 2 springs. The only tree that ever came out of dormancy and is thriving is a pear tree. Zero problems with trees from other companies.
I bought 2 BlackBerry and a batch of strawberries. Yours are the best I have ever gotten in the mail. They soaked , are in the ground and doing beautifully! I will be ordering any new ones you have next year as well since I will be able to make many more from the berries I got from you. Btw, great price as well!! Oh trees, that would be great if you sold some of those as well. Thanks for the great products, over 50 packs of seeds doing great as well!.
Well dang, I somehow missed watching this BEFORE I planted YOUR asparagus... I didn’t soak, I waited longer than I should, and yet ALL of them have grown into tiny little ferns just BEAUTIFULLY!!! Thanks for another info grab Luke! ❤️ Kristy in Missouri 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
If they are no longer dormant pot them up and prepare to harden them off before planting. I bought 3 bare root plants from Walmart that were already leafing out, I planted them and shocked them due to a frost. They were a lilac, forsythia and a hydrangea there is barely any life in them now not sure if they will make it! I knew better but I got in a hurry 😬
Too funny! I thought about presoaking my bare root strawberries and thought I'd just water them abundantly. I must have green arms, because everything I've touched so far is sprouting like mad! The strawberries started growing in less than a week (potted, indoors). All the other seeds I recieved from MIgardener have taken off as well. Admittedly, I should have more heat on them, but hey, they're all growing!
Thank you! I wish I'd known this before I planted my rhubarb! I think it all died. I honestly just stuffed them into barely-worked soil because the weather was so bad I had to be quick. Anyway I've learned a LOT. I'll presoak all my flower bulbs and go work on .y soil NOW before the bulbs arrive!!!
I ordered strawberry bare roots last year, definitely didn't soak the roots at all and they grew just fine so you don't necessarily need to soak bare root plants. I don't know how other bare root plants are but I know for sure strawberries bare roots don't need to be soaked
Well after watering a stick for around a week i now have what looks like a plant lol, under a light in a pot for now. Thanks for the tips they really helped ✌
@@seriejohnson698 same with me. I didnt know what to expect from a bare root plant but that deffenitly wasn't what I imagined. They did survive summer just fine tho and are still going strong through the winter so It was worth it. Hopefully this summer I'll be able to harvest a bit. After the first bit started growing it took off like a weed, the BlackBerry is around 3 feet tall now. My strawberries got taken over by my pumpkins then died but they didnt really have any issues getting started either.
Ate 2 raw asparagus spears today - planted from MIgardener seeds 3 years ago! So fresh and tasty. I ordered 12 purple bare root asparagus last spring, lost 5 last year and only 2 have come up this year. Not from you, don't think you can ship those to Canada so I may have to find a local supplier. Nothing but sunshine here but last frost date is about a week away.
So cool to see this next step in your garden shop, thank you for providing the community with incredible plants and seeds! 🌿 I have learned so much from your channel and hope to work with you in the future at some point. Happy gardening!
I know for strawberries he’d said in another video to plant them with the crown just above the soil level or right at soil level or they would rot. I hope I got that right because that’s what I did.
@@terriw3100 🙃 next time will do it right. I planted asparagus 3, 4 years ago and this yer had the biggest crop. I think I only planted 4 crowns. Last year or 2 years ago planted strawberries and last year had a couple maybe but this year......I think I had at least 4 lb by now. I also planted what I got from Luke so, next year. I think i only planted everbearing...so loving it...the taste...yumm. They are smaller but so much better than the chemical filled ones. Very excited! It will work, just take care of the properly. I plan to mulch them in the fall after done producing. Good luck Terri!
I have to keep an eye out for more plants in your shop. I get seeds from you a lot. My husband had a field day growing jellymelons. Anyone else try those? Literally everyone who tried them just sat giggling while eating them. Funny but weird!
I can't tell you how many bare root fruit tree I received that has NO, NONE, ZERO NADA feeder roots. They come with 1 or 2 'main' roots that are chopped off after 4 inches or so. I don't think a single one that arrive that way take. I naturally NEVER use the nursery again. They ones that come with larger root masses usually do better. I don't understand why don't nurseries take better care. Sorry for the rant this well done video triggered me.
Happy I got my 4 raspberry plants and 10 strawberry plants from you today! I'm ready to get them in the ground and see them take off 😁 Hopefully they will do as well as my seeds from you have always done. (Seriously, the germination rates on your seeds are crazy. Usually I put two or three seeds in together, but yours almost always all sprout, and then I feel bad thinning them. lol.)
Thanks for that. Really helped me as an amateur gardener. Pleased you mentioned about frost as we are in a mild area but there is the chance of a few more cold nights.
I brought a bare root cherry tree almost 3 weeks ago and thought it was completely dead. I'm new to gardening. But I planted it anyway hoping I was wrong. Didn't soak the roots because I didn't know that's what I needed to do. Straight in the dirt and plenty of water. Turns out, I was wrong because 2 days ago I noticed it was sprouting out new growth. Now I'm wondering if had I did this would my tree have woken up sooner.
I've been planting all of my asparagus roots nearly a foot under the soil. Is it better to plant them closer to the surface? I just bought 20 more roots that I need to plant tomorrow.
@@andread8169 I did plant them deep and they did grow, but this method from MIGardener would be be so much easier and save me a great deal of time and work. I want to try this method with my new asparagus bed.
@Poison Ivyif this is the first year for the roots, then allow the spindly ones to grow. In fact, don't cut from your asparagus the first year. They need to grow and mature.
I ordered a few asparagus and strawberries from you. They’re still in the fridge, waiting for our weather to break so we can get our in ground garden ready.
Hey! Don't wait. :) I'm following a few different gardeners and it seems that everything I touch wants to grow. I took a square, 1gal, water bottle and cut the side out. Using 1 part each of , black manure, sphagnum moss and potting soil, I have everything growing next to the back window. Oh, and I'm using a one part mix of green sand, blood meal and bone meal. ;)
Now Not awesome! I have about 200 seedlings under grow lights, but I live in Michigan, so our weather is just now breaking...so hopefully this weekend we get our garden in😆
I bought strawberry plants from you guys and they're still not showing growth. It's been 11 days in strawberry planting bag. I soaked them first then planted but still no life signs. :( Hope something happens soon.
Sounds like a few of us have been having issues with the bare root strawberries. Might be a problem with whatever grower they're using. Sorry. I know how disappointing it is! :(
I think I planted my asparagus to close together this spring. Should I remove a few to increase space from each other come this fall? Then replant the ones I took out in the spring?
Yes,it takes a while before you can harvest asparagus. Mine are 24 years old and still producing. I freeze dry,bottle and freeze. If properly cared for last forever.
Sounds like you need to get your strawberries bare roots from a different supplier. The asparagus I got all 16 are already over 2 ft tall. Can’t wait till next year to harvest. I really like that your branching out from just seeds. Would be nice if you weren’t out of most your stuff most the time.
Plant them in the ground even with frost weather? Zone 9a stil have a crazy weather some times hot and cold I am sure we are going to have some frost I received my blueberries and blackberry plants! Should I plant them? Thank you for your help I don’t know what to do
I got 3 types of strawberry and some asparagus as bare roots from the Migardener shop. The strawberries survived at about 90% and all the asparagus survived. I haven't given up hope on the few strawberries that didn't sprout.. yet. So far I am very pleased. My strawberries started flowering with only a few leaves on each plant. Is that normal or a sign of stress?
Well Luke, I already wrote to your customer service department over two weeks ago (haven't heard back yet, but I know you guys have been super busy), but my Quinault strawberries did not make it despite my doing pretty much everything you suggested here (and I received them awhile ago before this video aired). The only thing I did differently was let the plants soak overnight, but I planted them straight away the following day and I did use Trifecta in the planting holes as well. A couple of the plants struggled to put out a few small leaves, but they dried up by the next day. I kept them all well watered and mulched. I persisted with them for over two weeks, and nothing. Seems odd that not a single plant made it, so I don't know what happened. Very disappointing.
@@tamz0309Funny you should ask. I did, and received a full refund. I tried again with the bare roots this year, thinking maybe last year's batch was substandard, but unfortunately I'm seeing it happen all over again so I have to assume the plants are simply not healthy by the time they arrive. Only one looked like it had any life in it but it quickly died despite my best efforts. So it looks like I will be asking for another refund and no more bare root strawberries for me!
Oh my.. i planted my asparagus roots about an hr ago. I didn't soak them, they looked really dry, and I planted the crown about 6" deep. Should I dig them back out and redo?? I heard asparagus dont like to be moved once it's in the ground? Thank you for the video!
will this work for store-bought items as well since they are completely dry? like Menards,, I must have missed my opportunity to buy them in the last month from you.. I didn't see anything on your website about bare-rooted plants. There was almost nothing available. so I had to go to Menard's and Bachmann's for seeds. I'm kinda miffed i missed it. I have only gotten one notification that seeds became avaibable out of the ones i signed up for.. left a like
How can you tell if strawberries are dead? Theres not much to snip.... and some of mine are wet and red on the inside, some are dry and yellow.. I'm assuming the dry yellow are dead?
I got bare root trees while the ground was still frozen so there was no way I could get them in the ground. I wish you had given some ideas for that problem.
@@freeinJesus this didn't happen this year but on a year where winter hung on for a long time and I didn't have big enough pots or soil to put them in.
@@freeinJesus No the plants didn't survive. I had hoped they would send the trees in relation to the weather in my zne but they send it in relation to their zone. I hope he does address the situation. I would like to know. I have searched the net and the info it limited.
I just received bare root strawberries. They seem much fresher than I was expecting. I don't know of that's a good or bad thing. Some of the green tips broke off during planting. Will they be ok?
Here's a question: Have you ever had to garden in excessive rain? Over here in West Central IL, we have had almost four inches in a week. My garden looks like dirt soup, and we have rain projected into June. Any tips to try to keep things alive?
I purchased a large amount of bare root green giants in the spring. We got crazy back logged and we’re not able to pot them up. They stayed in the fridge until now…anyway they will live it I pot them up now?
BUMMER =C I wish that I had known about soaking roots a week ago, as I've just planted some Bare Root Asparagus crowns, and I didn't soak them beforehand. However, I did make sure that I gave the soil a really good soaking, and that their roots had a good amount of fertiliser around them... so fingers crossed >_
I want to buy a Flame Thrower Redbud 2 ft bare root sapling, but I’m afraid it wouldn’t survive planting in 85-90 degree August temperatures here in Zone 6a. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Quick question, I planted asparagus roots about 3-4 weeks ago. 7 out of 8 roots have already produced and are close to 12” tall. My last root hasn’t made any progress at all. Is there anything I could do? Or should I assume this root is dead?
Hello brother I ordered asparagus bare root and I received it but i live in KUWAIT Which is a very very very hot country in summer, can i put my roots in the fridge? For like a couple of months!????
Thanks for all your highly instructive videos - very useful for us new gardeners. Do you ship your seeds Internationally? Will be across the pond to UK. Cheers
Just buy them in the UK. Why pay extra, and create massive pollution shipping it across the world, just to get something you can buy from down the road?
I haven't started a garden yet but I am trying to find seeds so I can get started when we move into our new place. Do you know where a good place to get them this late in the buying season?
Hello.. I received my cherry tree in mail, but it had strays covering the roots. What should I do? I already planted it like that.. is there any way I can take it out again and do what ever I need to do and plant it again?
I planted my asparagus way too deep (crowns about 6 inches deep). This was about 3 weeks ago. Can/should I dig them up and bring them closer to the surface? Is it too late for them?
I did the same thing. Everything I read and watched said amend 12 inches deep and plant crowns 6 inches deep. It would have been a lot less work if the asparagus came with instructions saying to disregard all other instructions and only plant an inch deep 🙄 ugh....
@Poison Ivy I purchased bare root strawberries from a different company and all of them are setting fruit. In the past I did bare root Roses from the same company and lost several. Don't be totally turned off of bare root by this experience. Timing and health of the plant are very important too, not just planting styles.
Dig hole 12 in. deep,amend soil 6 in. deep,plant asparagus crowns in trench covering crown by about 1 in. soil, as asparagus sprouts slowly fill trench. Filling the trench may take several years until completely filled in
Hi, when can I plant echinacea roots and hollyhock roots in Zone 5B. Upstate NY. Our last frost date is 5/21 to 5/27. Can I plant them now and direct winter sow with a cloche? Thank you
For someone who's renting in Metro Detriot and not allowed to plant my fruit trees in the ground what would suggest for over wintering potted fruit trees and strawberries?
I did the same 😢 I guess I will be doing some digging today! I would assume if they did not rot, then they can still be saved. I think I planted them about a week and a half ago.
@@panterita1177 Mine have been down under the dirt for about 3 weeks, at least. I haven't seen anything green or otherwise peeking above ground what so ever.
So I checked this morning and luckily I didn’t plant them too deep I suppose, because a couple of them are shooting up, but I never put them in water for 2 hours before planting so whatever is happening is pure luck. 😅 Terri, maybe if carefully you try to take some soil from the top they could still be saved? You just have to be very, very careful not to damage any of them, maybe they are still sleeping? Good Luck!
I bought dormant strawberry plants from you...and received them a couple weeks ago. They were brown and sticky. They were not dormant, they were rotted and moldy. I haven't been able to reach you by phone or by leaving a text
That's interesting, Sharon; I had a bad experience with my bare root Quinault strawberries as well. I don't remember a moldy smell... I thought it was more of an earthy smell... they definitely had soil still clinging to the roots though. They weren't clean. I soaked them, planted them, fertilized them, and a couple of plants struggled to put out leaves and then died. Not a single plant made it. I took photos and sent them to MIGardener Customer Service with a description of what I did. Never heard back. That was over two weeks ago. I think they are overwhelmed at the moment with everyone ordering seeds, but I'm hoping I'll get a response at some point. It sounds like they may be using other growers to ship bare root plants, so maybe there's a problem with one of them not shipping good plants. In any case, I've missed the strawberry window for this year. Hope you get some resolution with your order.
@@its_not_it_apostrophe_s Thank you for telling me about your experience. I wrote a description of my problem on the Customer Service contact link as well. No response. I'm disappointed that they aren't answering. The seeds I ordered were great.
Hey so what if its too cold outside. I got raspberries and strawberries and they just came in, but its still chillie outside so I can't plant them for like a couple weeks what do i do
Add a teaspoon of Epsom salt to your soaking water. The added magnesium helps with transplant shock. If your roots have already broken dormancy(spouted), add some fish emulsion fertilizer to your soak as well. After planting, just water with the soaking water.
Thank you!
Very helpful video my friend 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
TLDR; 1) clip top. Look for green.
2). Soak roots in lukewarm water for 2 hrs.
3) don’t let roots dry.
4) plant.
I wouldn't clip the top. I just got hostas. They have one top and multiple roots. I din't think he meant clipping the top. I'm pettry sure it would ruin the hosta.
Thanks for the summary though.
Great video! Thank you Luke for always taking the time to go so in depth with your videos. Don't listen to the people who say they are too long. They are just right. The longer the better!
Thanks for this video, this explains why I've never been able to start plants from the bare root. I never soaked them! I didn't know. LOL. I'll check to see what you have next year. Thanks again for this info.
The best time to plant is in the rain! I love it!
i plant this way all the time... light rain...nothing goes into shock...I'm not sweating... win win win!
This was the first time I wanted to try asparagus plants. I ordered 2 and when I got them I realized that there were 4 in each package. I am so happy with them. I planted them a few days after I got them because of all the rain. It has been 2-3 wks and mine are doing great. They are 4-8 ins tall and one of them is over a foot tall. The ones I grew from seed are a foot tall, but a black worm got to them and ate all the ferns. Hoping they recover. Thanks for all you sell and for all your helpful tips. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!
I'm so jealous!! I didnt realize you were selling plants!! I wouldve bought one of everything!!
Still can he's been restocking stuff. Although they haven't been as accommodating due to the pandemic.
Same here, Jennifer, i need a peach tree
If you go to his site you can usually click the “join waitlist” for whatever you want and get notified once he has it available then snag it up 🙂
Had I known this I could have saved not buying from fast growing trees lol
Same here had no idea
Thank you, I received several milkweed in the mail and had no idea what to do with them. I already planted them and didn’t soak but there have been several days of rain and some fertilizer added to help. Lets hope they turn out well.
This makes me feel so much better! I was expecting them them to have sprouted right away!
Katelyn Mantey if they have shown no signs of live in 10-14 days they are goners.
I ordered your bare root June bearing strawberries, soaked them and planted them and some are blooming! I was surprised since they shouldn't fruit till next year but they arrived healthy and strong. All were viable and woke up beautifully after being planted in the ground. I've never planted strawberries before, so I did a little CZcams research and learned what a hillock was and away we went. I now have a strawberry hill that will hopefully produce some good pickings! I also did the unthinkable and direct sewed (zone 8b) some of your tomato seeds and they are coming up nicely! Great product! Thanks, Luke!
Which should I order
This was honestly a very helpful video. It is straightforward and covers things that searches don't. I've always thought I had to keep the starts indoors until the weather was perfect. So, this was life changing for me and the starts I buy.
That's what I thought, I just got mine today and tomorrow I was going to plant them in small pots indoors until May 15th.
I literally just received bare root plants in the mail late tonight! And the instructions were a little confusing, and definitely didn't say to soak them. So thank you!
I bought several bare root trees from the arbor day foundation. Had nothing but problems with 2 big orders in 2 springs. The only tree that ever came out of dormancy and is thriving is a pear tree. Zero problems with trees from other companies.
Luke, my strawberry plants just arrived in the mail. They are all in great shape. They are soaking now 🙂 Thanks for the video!
I bought 2 BlackBerry and a batch of strawberries. Yours are the best I have ever gotten in the mail. They soaked , are in the ground and doing beautifully! I will be ordering any new ones you have next year as well since I will be able to make many more from the berries I got from you. Btw, great price as well!! Oh trees, that would be great if you sold some of those as well. Thanks for the great products, over 50 packs of seeds doing great as well!.
Well dang, I somehow missed watching this BEFORE I planted YOUR asparagus... I didn’t soak, I waited longer than I should, and yet ALL of them have grown into tiny little ferns just BEAUTIFULLY!!! Thanks for another info grab Luke! ❤️ Kristy in Missouri 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
If they are no longer dormant pot them up and prepare to harden them off before planting. I bought 3 bare root plants from Walmart that were already leafing out, I planted them and shocked them due to a frost. They were a lilac, forsythia and a hydrangea there is barely any life in them now not sure if they will make it! I knew better but I got in a hurry 😬
Too funny! I thought about presoaking my bare root strawberries and thought I'd just water them abundantly. I must have green arms, because everything I've touched so far is sprouting like mad! The strawberries started growing in less than a week (potted, indoors). All the other seeds I recieved from MIgardener have taken off as well. Admittedly, I should have more heat on them, but hey, they're all growing!
Everthing I needed to know and more --- thank you 👍
Thank you! I wish I'd known this before I planted my rhubarb! I think it all died. I honestly just stuffed them into barely-worked soil because the weather was so bad I had to be quick. Anyway I've learned a LOT. I'll presoak all my flower bulbs and go work on .y soil NOW before the bulbs arrive!!!
I ordered strawberry bare roots last year, definitely didn't soak the roots at all and they grew just fine so you don't necessarily need to soak bare root plants. I don't know how other bare root plants are but I know for sure strawberries bare roots don't need to be soaked
I didn't fan out my strawberry roots either just planted them in the ground and they are thriving right now 😊
Well after watering a stick for around a week i now have what looks like a plant lol, under a light in a pot for now.
Thanks for the tips they really helped ✌
Glad to hear because I was thinking this is just some old stick 👀 thing. Lol
@@seriejohnson698 same with me.
I didnt know what to expect from a bare root plant but that deffenitly wasn't what I imagined.
They did survive summer just fine tho and are still going strong through the winter so It was worth it. Hopefully this summer I'll be able to harvest a bit.
After the first bit started growing it took off like a weed, the BlackBerry is around 3 feet tall now.
My strawberries got taken over by my pumpkins then died but they didnt really have any issues getting started either.
This was very helpful. Now I will know what to do when my bare root plants arrive.
Great tips! Thank you! We will be posting a garden update soon...after all of this rain stops and I can get some weeding done! 🌱🌱🌱
Your garden is really starting to come to life!
Great vídeo for My Tonto Crape Myrtle. Thanks
Thanks Luke! I kept wondering about my strawberries. Just what I needed!!
That is what I always do in my Garden. So come and lesgow garden lovers
I bought 1 from you guys thanks for the info.
Ate 2 raw asparagus spears today - planted from MIgardener seeds 3 years ago! So fresh and tasty. I ordered 12 purple bare root asparagus last spring, lost 5 last year and only 2 have come up this year. Not from you, don't think you can ship those to Canada so I may have to find a local supplier. Nothing but sunshine here but last frost date is about a week away.
So cool to see this next step in your garden shop, thank you for providing the community with incredible plants and seeds! 🌿 I have learned so much from your channel and hope to work with you in the future at some point. Happy gardening!
I know for strawberries he’d said in another video to plant them with the crown just above the soil level or right at soil level or they would rot. I hope I got that right because that’s what I did.
Yes, that's correct. Good luck!
Oh boy, I didn't soak mine....they are already planted....thanks for the tips. Well, next time.
Me too :-(
@@terriw3100 🙃 next time will do it right. I planted asparagus 3, 4 years ago and this yer had the biggest crop. I think I only planted 4 crowns. Last year or 2 years ago planted strawberries and last year had a couple maybe but this year......I think I had at least 4 lb by now. I also planted what I got from Luke so, next year. I think i only planted everbearing...so loving it...the taste...yumm. They are smaller but so much better than the chemical filled ones. Very excited! It will work, just take care of the properly. I plan to mulch them in the fall after done producing. Good luck Terri!
Cami Cri me too.
hi Luke from MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living can you please do a update 87 years tomatoes seeds please & thank you..
hi Luke from MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living can you please do a update 87 years tomatoes seeds please & thank you.
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My Quinault & Seascape soaked for 14 hrs & then grew 2-4” when in soil for just a few hours! 😂
Thank you so much.....We're very excited ... we just received our plants...🙏 🥷
Someone told me to soak them for around 24 hours😮. Now I better plant it tomorrow morning since it has been soaking for like 10 hours.
If you close your eyes you'll swear that Dan Aykroyd is narrating this
Great piece of advice. Thank you so much.
Rain and chilly in SW MI as well.
Same here! Southern Missouri!
I have to keep an eye out for more plants in your shop. I get seeds from you a lot. My husband had a field day growing jellymelons. Anyone else try those? Literally everyone who tried them just sat giggling while eating them. Funny but weird!
I can't tell you how many bare root fruit tree I received that has NO, NONE, ZERO NADA feeder roots. They come with 1 or 2 'main' roots that are chopped off after 4 inches or so. I don't think a single one that arrive that way take. I naturally NEVER use the nursery again. They ones that come with larger root masses usually do better. I don't understand why don't nurseries take better care. Sorry for the rant this well done video triggered me.
Happy I got my 4 raspberry plants and 10 strawberry plants from you today! I'm ready to get them in the ground and see them take off 😁 Hopefully they will do as well as my seeds from you have always done. (Seriously, the germination rates on your seeds are crazy. Usually I put two or three seeds in together, but yours almost always all sprout, and then I feel bad thinning them. lol.)
Where do I find starts
Thanks for that. Really helped me as an amateur gardener. Pleased you mentioned about frost as we are in a mild area but there is the chance of a few more cold nights.
I brought a bare root cherry tree almost 3 weeks ago and thought it was completely dead. I'm new to gardening. But I planted it anyway hoping I was wrong. Didn't soak the roots because I didn't know that's what I needed to do. Straight in the dirt and plenty of water. Turns out, I was wrong because 2 days ago I noticed it was sprouting out new growth. Now I'm wondering if had I did this would my tree have woken up sooner.
This is awesome!!! I have been waiting to plant mine because I wasn’t sure what to do lol
Thank you for this video ❤ love what you do! I ordered plants without even thinking about what I was going to do once they got here... 😂 🤦♀️
😂😂 I did the same, I Actually got it today and now is in water.
Please do videos on: CGG garbanzo beans, germinating pelleted seeds and turning compost into raised bed soil. Thanks
I've been planting all of my asparagus roots nearly a foot under the soil. Is it better to plant them closer to the surface? I just bought 20 more roots that I need to plant tomorrow.
Send some to me. I ruined mine :-(
Are the ones you planted a foot deep producing? I'm scared I planted mine to deep at 6 inches ...
@Poison Ivy I got mine from migardener too. Hope mine start to appear soon.
@@andread8169 I did plant them deep and they did grow, but this method from MIGardener would be be so much easier and save me a great deal of time and work. I want to try this method with my new asparagus bed.
@Poison Ivyif this is the first year for the roots, then allow the spindly ones to grow. In fact, don't cut from your asparagus the first year. They need to grow and mature.
I ordered a few asparagus and strawberries from you. They’re still in the fridge, waiting for our weather to break so we can get our in ground garden ready.
Hey! Don't wait. :) I'm following a few different gardeners and it seems that everything I touch wants to grow. I took a square, 1gal, water bottle and cut the side out. Using 1 part each of , black manure, sphagnum moss and potting soil, I have everything growing next to the back window. Oh, and I'm using a one part mix of green sand, blood meal and bone meal. ;)
Now Not awesome! I have about 200 seedlings under grow lights, but I live in Michigan, so our weather is just now breaking...so hopefully this weekend we get our garden in😆
I bought strawberry plants from you guys and they're still not showing growth. It's been 11 days in strawberry planting bag. I soaked them first then planted but still no life signs. :( Hope something happens soon.
Strawberries are very particular about how deep they need to be planted.
Nearly killed half of mine because I wasn't giving them enough light.
@@lasinatl leaves I could believe. Blossoms? Baby strawberries????
Sounds like a few of us have been having issues with the bare root strawberries. Might be a problem with whatever grower they're using. Sorry. I know how disappointing it is! :(
I think I planted my asparagus to close together this spring. Should I remove a few to increase space from each other come this fall? Then replant the ones I took out in the spring?
Same
Bummed to have missed the chance on asparagus. Can’t wait that many years for production!
Yes,it takes a while before you can harvest asparagus. Mine are 24 years old and still producing. I freeze dry,bottle and freeze. If properly cared for last forever.
Sounds like you need to get your strawberries bare roots from a different supplier. The asparagus I got all 16 are already over 2 ft tall. Can’t wait till next year to harvest. I really like that your branching out from just seeds. Would be nice if you weren’t out of most your stuff most the time.
Hi! Are you kidding me?! I just received a bare root tree in the mail!!!😀👍🙌🙌🙌thank you!!
Raining here in North Carolina too. Seems a lot of rain and storms in the coming days.
Plant them in the ground even with frost weather? Zone 9a stil have a crazy weather some times hot and cold I am sure we are going to have some frost I received my blueberries and blackberry plants! Should I plant them? Thank you for your help I don’t know what to do
Hope all is well with you Luke!
I got 3 types of strawberry and some asparagus as bare roots from the Migardener shop. The strawberries survived at about 90% and all the asparagus survived. I haven't given up hope on the few strawberries that didn't sprout.. yet. So far I am very pleased. My strawberries started flowering with only a few leaves on each plant. Is that normal or a sign of stress?
great information
great video.
Just in time, I got my asparagus today!
Love you videos! Is the MI for Michigan?
Well Luke, I already wrote to your customer service department over two weeks ago (haven't heard back yet, but I know you guys have been super busy), but my Quinault strawberries did not make it despite my doing pretty much everything you suggested here (and I received them awhile ago before this video aired). The only thing I did differently was let the plants soak overnight, but I planted them straight away the following day and I did use Trifecta in the planting holes as well. A couple of the plants struggled to put out a few small leaves, but they dried up by the next day. I kept them all well watered and mulched. I persisted with them for over two weeks, and nothing. Seems odd that not a single plant made it, so I don't know what happened. Very disappointing.
Did you ever hear back from them?
@@tamz0309Funny you should ask. I did, and received a full refund. I tried again with the bare roots this year, thinking maybe last year's batch was substandard, but unfortunately I'm seeing it happen all over again so I have to assume the plants are simply not healthy by the time they arrive. Only one looked like it had any life in it but it quickly died despite my best efforts. So it looks like I will be asking for another refund and no more bare root strawberries for me!
@@its_not_it_apostrophe_s soaking overnight can create mold.
Oh my.. i planted my asparagus roots about an hr ago. I didn't soak them, they looked really dry, and I planted the crown about 6" deep. Should I dig them back out and redo??
I heard asparagus dont like to be moved once it's in the ground? Thank you for the video!
will this work for store-bought items as well since they are completely dry? like Menards,, I must have missed my opportunity to buy them in the last month from you.. I didn't see anything on your website about bare-rooted plants. There was almost nothing available. so I had to go to Menard's and Bachmann's for seeds. I'm kinda miffed i missed it. I have only gotten one notification that seeds became avaibable out of the ones i signed up for.. left a like
All my asparagus bare roots did great I got from you but only 2 of my 20 strawberries have done anything after almost 3 weeks.
😬 I feel like my strawberries are hit and miss this year too. 😔
@@GrowingRoots Mine haven't budged
@@mneraasen224 😭
@@katelynmantey1 😭😭😭
How can you tell if strawberries are dead? Theres not much to snip.... and some of mine are wet and red on the inside, some are dry and yellow.. I'm assuming the dry yellow are dead?
Great! Nice video. Love channel
I got bare root trees while the ground was still frozen so there was no way I could get them in the ground. I wish you had given some ideas for that problem.
@@freeinJesus this didn't happen this year but on a year where winter hung on for a long time and I didn't have big enough pots or soil to put them in.
@@freeinJesus No the plants didn't survive. I had hoped they would send the trees in relation to the weather in my zne but they send it in relation to their zone. I hope he does address the situation. I would like to know. I have searched the net and the info it limited.
I just received bare root strawberries. They seem much fresher than I was expecting. I don't know of that's a good or bad thing. Some of the green tips broke off during planting. Will they be ok?
My bare root trumpet vines have noroots dangling on either end. What end do I plant down? Pointy end or blunt end?
Here's a question: Have you ever had to garden in excessive rain? Over here in West Central IL, we have had almost four inches in a week. My garden looks like dirt soup, and we have rain projected into June. Any tips to try to keep things alive?
I purchased a large amount of bare root green giants in the spring. We got crazy back logged and we’re not able to pot them up. They stayed in the fridge until now…anyway they will live it I pot them up now?
we need strawberrys
thank you
BUMMER =C I wish that I had known about soaking roots a week ago, as I've just planted some Bare Root Asparagus crowns, and I didn't soak them beforehand. However, I did make sure that I gave the soil a really good soaking, and that their roots had a good amount of fertiliser around them... so fingers crossed >_
I want to buy a Flame Thrower Redbud 2 ft bare root sapling, but I’m afraid it wouldn’t survive planting in 85-90 degree August temperatures here in Zone 6a. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Quick question, I planted asparagus roots about 3-4 weeks ago. 7 out of 8 roots have already produced and are close to 12” tall. My last root hasn’t made any progress at all. Is there anything I could do? Or should I assume this root is dead?
Hello brother
I ordered asparagus bare root and I received it but i live in KUWAIT
Which is a very very very hot country in summer, can i put my roots in the fridge? For like a couple of months!????
Thanks for all your highly instructive videos - very useful for us new gardeners.
Do you ship your seeds Internationally? Will be across the pond to UK.
Cheers
Just buy them in the UK. Why pay extra, and create massive pollution shipping it across the world, just to get something you can buy from down the road?
I haven't started a garden yet but I am trying to find seeds so I can get started when we move into our new place. Do you know where a good place to get them this late in the buying season?
Get them in the ground no matter what? It's Jan in zone 7a. Isn't the ground frozen?
i tried twice with blackberries, received the dormant plants , soaked the roots but they did not survive.
Hello.. I received my cherry tree in mail, but it had strays covering the roots. What should I do? I already planted it like that.. is there any way I can take it out again and do what ever I need to do and plant it again?
Luke concerning the water soak, what if the bareroot planting took place in late fall, like lol today? Madison, WI.
I planted my asparagus way too deep (crowns about 6 inches deep). This was about 3 weeks ago. Can/should I dig them up and bring them closer to the surface? Is it too late for them?
I did the same thing. Everything I read and watched said amend 12 inches deep and plant crowns 6 inches deep. It would have been a lot less work if the asparagus came with instructions saying to disregard all other instructions and only plant an inch deep 🙄 ugh....
@Poison Ivy I purchased bare root strawberries from a different company and all of them are setting fruit. In the past I did bare root Roses from the same company and lost several. Don't be totally turned off of bare root by this experience. Timing and health of the plant are very important too, not just planting styles.
Dig hole 12 in. deep,amend soil 6 in. deep,plant asparagus crowns in trench covering crown by about 1 in. soil, as asparagus sprouts slowly fill trench. Filling the trench may take several years until completely filled in
Ok my roots was dead nothing happened been in ground for 2 long what do you expect Home Depot I'll order some of Amazon today🙆
amazon!? clown! how about a local nursery!? unless that was intended as a joke...
Hi, when can I plant echinacea roots and hollyhock roots in Zone 5B. Upstate NY. Our last frost date is 5/21 to 5/27.
Can I plant them now and direct winter sow with a cloche?
Thank you
I can’t tell which part is the top and which part gets covered.
For someone who's renting in Metro Detriot and not allowed to plant my fruit trees in the ground what would suggest for over wintering potted fruit trees and strawberries?
Is this true for all types of bare root plants? The soaking time and all that?
So sad I didn’t know you guys sold plants...I buy seeds every year😕
I got my asparagus a few weeks ago. By watching this I really did them wrong. Ugh :-( I buried them completely, anyone thinks I can unbury them?
Same. My crowns are about 6 inches deep. I hope it’s not too late to fix.
I did the same 😢 I guess I will be doing some digging today! I would assume if they did not rot, then they can still be saved. I think I planted them about a week and a half ago.
@@panterita1177 Mine have been down under the dirt for about 3 weeks, at least. I haven't seen anything green or otherwise peeking above ground what so ever.
So I checked this morning and luckily I didn’t plant them too deep I suppose, because a couple of them are shooting up, but I never put them in water for 2 hours before planting so whatever is happening is pure luck. 😅 Terri, maybe if carefully you try to take some soil from the top they could still be saved? You just have to be very, very careful not to damage any of them, maybe they are still sleeping? Good Luck!
@@panterita1177 I am going to try but I fear the worst.
I saw the comment on Facebook 😂
What are those bell shaped things hanging from the poles in the garden bed?
I bought dormant strawberry plants from you...and received them a couple weeks ago. They were brown and sticky. They were not dormant, they were rotted and moldy. I haven't been able to reach you by phone or by leaving a text
That's interesting, Sharon; I had a bad experience with my bare root Quinault strawberries as well. I don't remember a moldy smell... I thought it was more of an earthy smell... they definitely had soil still clinging to the roots though. They weren't clean. I soaked them, planted them, fertilized them, and a couple of plants struggled to put out leaves and then died. Not a single plant made it. I took photos and sent them to MIGardener Customer Service with a description of what I did. Never heard back. That was over two weeks ago. I think they are overwhelmed at the moment with everyone ordering seeds, but I'm hoping I'll get a response at some point. It sounds like they may be using other growers to ship bare root plants, so maybe there's a problem with one of them not shipping good plants. In any case, I've missed the strawberry window for this year. Hope you get some resolution with your order.
@@its_not_it_apostrophe_s
Thank you for telling me about your experience. I wrote a description of my problem on the Customer Service contact link as well. No response. I'm disappointed that they aren't answering. The seeds I ordered were great.
Shame we missed that deal
Hey so what if its too cold outside. I got raspberries and strawberries and they just came in, but its still chillie outside so I can't plant them for like a couple weeks what do i do
Sounds like I did everything wrong with my horseradish roots. With that said, they are growing.