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 as an alternative to ordering here and we will work to arrange a pickup.
We update our offerings on March 1st for Spring bare root sales and September 1st for Fall bare root sales. If you are visiting this page and see all plants 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 will generally have more herbaceous perennials and grasses, 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 the plants 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!
Please be aware that some plants are considered ‘illegal’ in some states. It is possible that some of our plants are not allowed to be planted where you live. If you are in doubt, you can search the plant and your state and see if it they are prohibited or ‘illegal’ to plant and if so please don’t order them. Thanks.
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…
Sunchoke
Sunchoke
Helianthus Tuberosus
Sunchoke, Jerusalem Artichoke, Sunroot, Earth Apple... So many names! This native, incredibly hardy and vigorous growing perennial produces large amounts of high value food that store in the winter down in the soil. As you can tell from its growth and flowers, this is a perennial member of the sunflower family, but instead of making seeds it makes large tubers down in the earth in great numbers. These can be left all winter and harvested as needed. Cooked like potatoes (but low and slow is best!), or fermented, roasted, shredded, etc., they are an excellent perennial tuber with great food value. Highest flavor quality and best digestibility happens with an early spring harvest. The earth is your root cellar with these :)
We offer starter packs with at least 6 tubers (often more) for $12. This is enough to start a nice solid patch in year 1. Our ‘huge’ packs for $40 will provide you with at least 30 plantable tubers and growth points. This can be an option to fill a larger production patch within a year or two!
We also offer a ‘Maximum Diversity’ offering that will have a complex mix of 2-3 or more varieties we grow from seedling stands, hybrid parentage stands, and other wild sources. This may include Stampede, Red Fuseau, ‘Diversity’, ‘Blue Eye’ and more! This will give you a wide genetic pool to grow on your land, helping you select for the most adaptable, delicious, beautiful types that want to grow where you live. Plant them all together or in their own test plots and pack your land with diversity and resiliency! This will not be labeled individually, but will be a nice blended mix!
Size:
We currently offer a few named varieties, some are common types and some are rare. 'Stampede' can reach 12' tall and will be covered in flowers in the fall. It produces large white tubers. Some larger than softballs in rich soils. Harder to clean, but worth the effort as a key staple crop. 'Red Fuseau' reaches 8' or so and doesn't flower. It produces beautiful red/purple, thin skinned tubers of high quality for fresh eating. ‘Diversity’ can produce very long and thick tubers like small sweet potatoes. ‘Blue Eye’ produces abundant and colorful tubers down below very tall stalks with numerous late season flowers.
Site Preference:
Seems to like a lot of sun, but can handle part shade and being an under story element.
Hardiness:
Zone 4, perhaps even much colder
