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…
Myoga Ginger
Myoga Ginger
Zingiber Mioga
Myoga or Mioga Ginger, also called Japanese Ginger. A beautiful member of the ginger family, with lovely tropical foliage and stunning small flowers that form at the base in late summer / early fall. The part you harvest on this beautiful plant is the young flower shoot before it opens. This pink/yellow lovely early flower can be pickled or cooked to provide a gingery and zesty flavor to any dish. The root is not much to write home about in flavor, and is mainly there to help this plant expand and grow… This plant has proven so adaptable to our site that we’re excited to offer it for others to learn about!
We got this hardy perennial ginger a few years ago with the hopes we’d be able to possibly overwinter it in our high tunnels in our zone 5B climate. Not only did they over winter but they expanded dramatically, so we divided the bed and brought a bunch of roots out to plant in the garden and try it outside. Fully intent to protect the patch overwinter, we just ran out of time and the whole patch was exposed to the bitter cold of central NY State. -13F air temp on one night, many freeze thaw cycles, no mulch on the bed, and they expanded and grew like crazy in the spring!!! A second winter with full exposure to our intense northern climate and they expanded even more. So far this plant has proven rock solid hardy to zone 5b with no protection (2 winters test so far). That is our experience, but not guaranteeing its what you’ll experience.
If you are zone 6 or colder, you may want to have your Myoga live in a large pot that you can bring in for the winter and store cool and dormant. OR, you may want to test the edge of how hardy these beautiful ginger family perennials can actually be!
Please Note: If you live in as cold a climate as we do (zone 5B or colder) please consider ordering ONLY in the spring if you plan to plant outside. We do not have extensive experience transplanting in the late fall in our cold climate. We have incredibly good success with spring establishment, so please consider that when deciding when to order! We offer some plants in the fall but generally have ample available in the spring for colder climates.
Our single option gets you at least one nice sturdy rootlet ready to plant.
Our $50 option will provide you with a minimum of 6 plantable root sections if not more.
Our $100 option will give you a pretty lovely pile of root sections to plant out. We put in a minimum of 15 segments but at this price point there will often be more and perhaps offcuts and potable sections to ramp up along side your main planting bed. This option would facilitate a serious patch within 2 years for sure.
Size:
2’ on average, almost 3’ when incredibly happy
Site Preference:
Seems to love best partial shade, rich soil and good even moisture, but we’re trialling it in full blazing sun and nearly full shade and it’s growing in every condition we’re trying it in.
Hardiness:
Zone 5B based on our 2 years of trials. Literature says zone 6 and up… If you are zone 5b or colder consider it a tender perennial to protect or bring in for the winter until you have enough plant material to experiment.
We offer dormant root fragments with good, defined growth nodes ready to send up a few strong shoots in year one. We’ll either send you one really nice root with a few growth points or a few root sections to plant out and grow when counting out segments to share.
Roots want to be planted parallel to the ground with smaller roots facing out and downward.
