How to plant Perennials (bare roots) - FarmerGracy.co.uk

[@alexiawagner2514]

Thank you so so much Naomie - would you film more ? It’s so interesting, and beautiful to also check the flowers around you...

[@janelintern6969]

Very very good and informative video - comprehensive instructions. Many thanks!!

[@TamiGoldmann]

Thank you for making this. I just got bareroot echinacea and was watching videos on what to do with it? Planting them in a smaller pot to "let them establish a root ball" is the best advice! Thank you! I will do that now!

[@melissaz.6832]

Hi Gracy! Thank you for the mini tutorial. I feel inspired now to try bare root gardening (I just bought a mail order planned garden of drought tolerant and deer resistant perennials - wish me luck!) I’d love to see a follow-up video of your established plants, now that it’s been a couple of years. 😊

[@NormanBurney-o2e]

Thankyou for your information as to potting on , as just taken delivery of a selection of your lovely plants ..take care .

[@cretski67]

Wonderful, Naomi. Just what I needed to know for my bare root echinacea's (hope I've spelt them correctly!) Great vid and you get the information across so well without being at all patronising - all done so friendly etc. Keep up the great gardening green finger work X

[@janelintern6969]

Great and informative video, as always. Many thanks, again!

[@millymay0025]

I’m going into the garden now to plant my Geums which have just arrived from Farmer Gracy!

[@jakeiscool446]

great information. Just starting buying from you, recommended by Anne Marie Powell from My Real Garden

[@alexhogan1]

My geranium bareroot are all successful so far, I ordered quite late so I’m happy with them. Hopefully they really kick off through May

[@leegarner6013]

Great information, thank you

[@stevengordon9365]

Loving your work 🙂👍

[@franfriel2]

Thank you!

[@1Kent]

I put mine straight in the ground 🤞

[@hasupatel8981]

Thanks

[@TracyDempsey]

Hi there, I received mine a few days ago and didn't realise I needed to soak them first - I potted them and gave them a good water (and have kept the soil moist). Should I take them out and soak them and re-pot them, then leave them alone? Or just continue to keep the soil moist now? Thanks!

[@carolwilliams6633]

My roots are planted. But we are expecting a light frost. Can I cover them with flower pots?

[@TMBgarden]

What bare root plants you got planted? I plant for the first time last late spring and early autum herbaceous salvia in a very soil prepared and mixed with chicken well rotted compost and sand, in my zone 9b and people said me they will die back at the end of season and will don't came back again because they were sensitive to frost. So I left them go to seed and complete their life cycle and their were planted between indian summer rudbeckias. I let some grases grow and chicken weed above the soil all the winter to early spring over my plants that I won't cutted back, just clip some spent flowers when they were completely dormant and dark brown color late winter. Now by the first week of may y cut back all the grasses and chikenweed to the grown levels because I got new growth from all my herbaceous salvia (salvia misty, salvia interespecific, white salvia, salvia farinacea) and all my cappuccino rudbeckias and grey eyes rudbeckias) so I cut back all the old growth, spent sticks from last season to the ground level, and let just the new growth. The grasses and chikenweed had protected my bare roots from heavy frost and the sand mixed with mulching in my soil protected the root system from rot, because my soil is heavy clay and became waterlogged every where. So this way works for me, in fact I already have a few rudbeckias flowers forming by now, and 2 capuchino flowers already opened. The only plant that looks like that was FELICIA, this one are completely burnt and sand colour, but they aren't easy to pull, so I have some hope. And in their crown are some cotiledon from the overwinter direct sown of their own seed that I did early winter just in case...

[@davidwoods4366]

any chance we can have a "REVISIT" to see what they look like in a couple of weeks????? maybe call it How to plant Perennials (bare roots) 2 weeks on...

[@farmer-gracy]

Great idea - We’ll think about that! 😀

[@davidwoods4366]

@@farmer-gracy actually maybe better to leave it longer depending on how quickly it grows LOL

[@TMBgarden]

What a wonderful Idea, I would like to see two parts, one they are ready to be potted up and when they are ready to go directly to the ground. I got my first bare roots and the package box have no instructions just the name is the different species I got in every plastic bag...