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…
Paw Paw
Paw Paw
Asimina Triloba
Pawpaw is an unbelievable tree and fruit. Imagine a fruit the size of a mango, that smells like the most exotic tropical fruit. Cutting it in half reveals an incredibly sweet, rich, custard-textured flesh that has a flavor profile somewhere between banana, papaya, pear, strawberry and jackfruit. And you picked it from a tree on YOUR land! For our region, where winters can get to -15F and heavy winds, it is a very special experience to have such a tropical seeming tree. The foliage and bark are not desired by deer or rabbits, so we find we can plant paw paw out with no browse pressure.
This stunning tree grows in partial shade (it desires shade in its youth), and can tolerate Black Walnut trees with grace. 2 trees minimum for pollination, under 10 trees will probably require hand pollination since the carrion fly is it’s main pollinator.
Size:
Roughly 20’ tall and 15’ wide
Site Preference:
Shady to full sun… More shade when it’s younger. Can tolerate wet feet on occasion. Amazing choice for a challenging Black Walnut grove! Our happiest and most productive trees are planted amidst a Black Walnut over story.
Hardiness:
Zone 5B (could be slightly hardier, but may get knocked back after a heavy winter in colder climates)
Two sizes currently available, 1st year seedling, tiny above ground but with a substantial tap root ready to lock in to its new home, and 2nd year young tree bigger and more developed. 1st year trees tend to catch up and exceed older trees, but some people want it bigger at purchase time. Choice is yours.
We offer plants that are ready to be planted in their final location and also have ‘Grade B’ which are seedlings that haven’t quite reached a threshold to be considered fully retail ready. These seedlings are completely alive and healthy, just a little small (sub 8” tall in general). They can be planted out in their final homes with a bit of extra TLC, watering, mulch, etc., or best would be to plant them in a communal ‘nursery bed’ to grow for one full season, develop much larger root systems and be very field ready in one growing season. A very economical way to get lots of plants for sure!
