I have purchased a plant in a fibre pot (made from compressed peat moss, coconut fibre, etc.). How do I plant it?
A. All garden plants like to be free of their pots when they are planted. Having said that, often when you buy a plant in a fibre pot you have to balance the need of the plant to grow and expand over the course of the next few years with the need of the plants roots to be disturbed as little as possible during transplanting. There are several reason why plants are grown in fibre pots. Some garden centres sell recently potted plants where a bare-root (usually dug the previous fall with the soil removed) plant has been placed in the pot in fresh soil (also often contains bark and peatmoss). These plants have insufficient roots and cannot be removed from the pot without damaging what few roots they have. Garden centres (definitely not Make It Green!) sell these plants expecting their customers to plant them in the ground, pot and all (although judging by the number of complaints we hear, this instruction doesnt always get passed on to the customer). Other plants have been field dug and pl
