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…
Goji Berry
Goji Berry
Lycium Barbarum
Goji berries, those small dried red fruits you find in health food stores. Yes, you can grow them in your backyard in zones 3-8! Actually, we've found these plants to be some of the most vigorous, rampant, easy to propagate plants we've met, and that says a lot considering the plants we work with.
Goji berry plants grow in somewhat crazy arcs of woody branches reaching in all sorts of directions. We've read you can train them to a trellis for ease of harvest and to control their random growth patterns and we plan to do that moving forward. These plants can be propagated easily from cuttings, rootlets, tip layers, seeds, you name it.
So far, we haven't found a way to really enjoy the fresh fruits as a snack, but to be honest we haven't dried them down to experience them in a way like at the health food store. Our main interest is moving towards the leaves and young shoots (wonderful and flavorful in soups and stews) as an incredibly nutritious and worthwhile perennial vegetable.
This beautiful, perennial member of the solanaceous family puts on lovely little purple flowers adored by bees for an extended time in the growing season, grows incredibly fast and produces massive amounts of fruits. It's a very worthwhile addition to your permaculture food forest. Look up 'goji berry nutrition profile' to see why you may want to plant this plant!
The goji we offer are propagated from an unnamed but really productive variety. We offer 'small' and 'larger' options. Small plants are rooted plants with less than 8" of top growth, but ready to take off. Larger are 8" or taller and thoroughly rooted plants. We have learned pretty definitively that you need multiple varieties for fruit set. We encourage you to get more varieties from other nurseries to pair with ours for best success.
Size:
They seem to top out around 5-6' tall and could be shaped quite a bit with a support system.
Site Preference:
Prefers full sun and rich soil, but we've seen them tolerate other situations.
Hardiness:
Zone 3 to 8
