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Small fruits
Grape Worden Both berries and clusters are large. It produces 2-3 weeks earlier than Concord and almost never needs winter protection. The Worden Grape, Vitis 'Worden', is a blue-black sweet variety with excellent quality, and it is great as a table grape, juice or jelly. Birds love grapes, so be sure to plant some to share. This grape tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, but must have good drainage. The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home. Grapes need full sunlight and high temperatures to ripen, so plant on southern slopes, the south side of windbreaks, or the south sides of buildings.
Blackberry Chester Thornless The Chester Thornless Blackberry, 'Rubus 'Chester Thornless', is a semi-erect variety of blackberry that was developed by the USDA. It contains high quality and high yields, and they are excellent eaten fresh or made into preserves and blackberry wine. It is a fast grower and requires full sun. It bears large, firm, sweet fruit, and is very resistant to cane blight. Fruit is borne on previous years growth, so cut canes to the ground after they are done bearing. Blackberries are a delicious gourmet treat that may be eaten fresh or used in cobbler, cake, sauce, jam, jelly or syrup.
Blueberry Northblue Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop. It offers striking multi-tone fall foliage colors - yellow through red. This low-growing blueberry is perfect for the home landscape. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage.
Blueberry Northcountry The Northcountry Blueberry, Vaccinium 'Northcountry', has an attractive, sky blue colored fruit that is produced abundantly on this low, spreading shrub. Northcountry has bright red fall colors. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage. Plants appreciate a good organic mulch. Prune early before spring growth. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids.
Blueberry Northsky Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!. The beautiful densely foliaged plant turns brilliant red in the fall. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop. It is the most cold hardy of all the blueberries and will be most productive with winter snow cover. Blueberries are a delicious gourmet treat that may be eaten fresh or used in cobbler, cake, sauce, jam, jelly or syrup. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage.
Raspberry Bristol Black The Bristol Raspberry, 'Rubus 'Bristol', is a fruit that is black and large with attractive, fairly glossy skin and firm flesh. Bristol’s upright growth and cluster formation make its berries extremely easy to pick. Firm berries can be handled without bleeding. It is very hardy, high producing, vigorous and ripens in mid-July. Although a well-drained soil is essential for success, a sandy soil will need to have plenty of organic matter incorporated in preparation. Birds also love the fruit, so you may have to share the harvest.
Raspberry Royalty This new cultivar hasgreat insect resistance and is among the largest fruited raspberries. They do best in full sun on non-alkaline, fertile loam soil. However, they may be grown in partial shade or under other environmental constraints.
Rhubarb Chipmans Canada Red This attractive perennial plants will accent your landscape and remain productive for decades. This rhubarb does harvest well in fall and seldom goes to seed.
Blueberry Bluecrop The Bluecrop Blueberry, Vaccinium 'Bluecrop', has a firm light blue medium-sized fruit. The most popular variety in North America, it prefers an organically rich, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage.
Blueberry Blueray The foliage turns a burgundy color in the fall. This deciduous shrub is dense with an upright, multiple-branched growth habit. Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!.
Blueberry Jersey It ripens in August and is a very reliable producer every year.
Blueberry Northland Prune early before spring growth.
Blueberry Patriot Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop.
Grape Frontenac Gris™ This grape tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, but must have good drainage.
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