Hey there, in today's Friday Q&A, I'm going to answer a question that I have gotten multiple times,

both from personal friends and from people emailing me, and I think it's even been posted in the

Beginners Garden Shortcut Facebook group. And that is, where do you buy either berry bushes or

live plants? Those are the type of questions that I've been getting

because a lot of people have suggestions on where to buy seeds and I've talked about that before

on the podcast. But what about where to buy your live plants? In general, I personally recommend

that you visit a reputable local nursery for buying live plants.

And there's lots of reasons for that.

First of all, in my experience, the local nurseries will carry the bushes, trees,

live plants, anything that you're going to be growing that are going to be best for your area.

It saves you a little bit of extra research just to make

sure that it's appropriate for your growing area and that's what I've found to have been the best bet.

Notice I said a local nursery, not a big box store. I have bought, I think, blackberries from a big box store early in my gardening

experience. And honestly, they did just fine. So I'm not saying that that's a horrible

suggestion, but I have heard from people who have bought from big box stores. They weren't the,

they weren't really the best varieties for the area.

And there's just, I've had, I've had people that didn't have the greatest experiences with that.

And that's also something that my local extension agent recommended against, especially when it came to fruit trees.

So all that to say, I really think a local nursery is the best bet if you have one close.

If you do need to order online, because I know my local nursery, as far as I've been able to tell,

doesn't carry everything that I'm wanting to buy. So sometimes you may have to resort to online

resources, and not that that's terrible. I've actually had really good experience with a lot of the

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