Bare Root Plants for Sale
Thank you for your interest and happy growing!
PLEASE READ: If you are local or regional to the Finger Lakes area (able to pick up in person), feel free to reach out to hello@edibleacres.org with a clear wish list of plants and we will work to arrange a pickup.
We update our inventory on March 1st for Spring bare root sales and September 1st for Fall bare root sales. If you are visiting this page and see everything as sold out, please make a note in your calendar to revisit at our next ‘opening’ and pick up some lovely plants!
Our Fall offerings tend to have higher numbers of trees, shrubs, cuttings and a medley of our abundant and fall appropriate herbaceous perennials. Spring offerings will generally have more herbaceous perennials, grasses, etc and a smaller number of trees and shrubs. We weight our inventory in large part based on seasonal appropriateness for establishment. We hope you understand and visit again if you don’t find what you are looking for this time.
If you are super eager to get plants now, we now have a Permaculture Nursery page that lists friends of ours with ethical and thoughtful growing practices. We strongly encourage you to check them out and get some awesome plants from them too!
TIP: Use the tags above to help filter our offerings by characteristic (ie. click on ‘fruit’ to find any fruit bearing plants we offer, etc.) As we add more and more it is a helpful way to find a plant to fit your goals…
Thornless Blackberry
Thornless Blackberry
Rubus Fruticosus
We’ve been amazed at how productive, vigorous and surprisingly hardy our thornless blackberries have been for our site. Probably not as rugged as a truly thorny blackberry, but they’ve survived some pretty harsh winters with minimal damage and still producing fruit the next year.
These plants are truly thornless, top to bottom, and all divisions and propagations make thornless plants. Smooth to the touch with massive fruits sometimes 6-10 times larger than wild types, who wouldn’t want to grow these! We’ll be trialing them as living fences for some of our woodland plantings this next season, and have high hopes in seeing them become a naturalized competitor with some of our wild thorny blackberry patches as they exhibit higher vigor in many cases. This is a very worthy plant to grow, especially if you have young children or want a hands-friendly patch to harvest wonderfully flavorful and large fruit from!
Size:
Canes can grow 10’+ feet a year! Can be trained to a fence or allowed to ‘lope’ along
Site Preference:
Loves sunny site with rich soil, but we get decent production even into the woods. Great candidate for the forest garden edge.
Hardiness:
Zone 6 (but in our zone 5B area they generally grow and fruit beautifully every year. Not recommended for colder than 5B)
