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Small fruits
Grape Marquis The Marquis Grape, 'Vitis 'Marquis', is a mid-season, white seedless grape with large, round berries borne in large clusters. It has excellent flavor, good cold hardiness, and is a great choice for home gardens. Foliage and fruit are moderately susceptible to powdery mildew, downy mildew, and black rot. This vigorous grower produces abundant crops early-to-late September. Eat them off the vine or use them for cooking in jellies, jams and desserts. Grapes are primarily grown for fruit production in home fruit gardens where they provide good ornamental value: bold summer foliage, showy fruit, some fall color and shaggy, twisted trunking and branching often best seen in winter. Grapes need a good support system like fences, walls, trellises, arbors or other structures. The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home.
Blackberry Chester Thornless 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. Chester is the most hardy thornless blackberry. Training canes to grow on a trellis, they can grow to 10' long. Fruit is borne on previous years growth, so cut canes to the ground after they are done bearing. To maintain plants, be sure to water in dry weather and use mulch to conserve soil moisture and control weeds.
Blueberry Northblue The blooms have attractive showy white flowers tinged pink. It offers striking multi-tone fall foliage colors - yellow through red. It is completely self fruitful. This blueberry prefers an acid soil for best plant health and fruit production. Blueberries are a delicious gourmet treat that may be eaten fresh or used in cobbler, cake, sauce, jam, jelly or syrup. Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!.
Blueberry Northcountry The Northcountry Blueberry, Vaccinium 'Northcountry', has an attractive, sky blue colored fruit that is produced abundantly on this low, spreading shrub. It is a vigorous growing cultivar reaching bearing age in 2 years, and the fruits ripen in July. Its dwarf size would make it a nice ornamental plant. It likes an organically rich, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Plants appreciate a good organic mulch. Blueberries are a delicious gourmet treat that may be eaten fresh or used in cobbler, cake, sauce, jam, jelly or syrup.
Blueberry Northsky It is the most cold hardy of all the blueberries and will be most productive with winter snow cover. The beautiful densely foliaged plant turns brilliant red in the fall. Northsky needs another blueberry for pollination, so combine with Northland for maximum fruit production. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids. Blueberries are a delicious gourmet treat that may be eaten fresh or used in cobbler, cake, sauce, jam, jelly or syrup.
Raspberry Bristol Black Bristol’s upright growth and cluster formation make its berries extremely easy to pick. It is very hardy, high producing, vigorous and ripens in mid-July. 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. Raspberries need a plentiful supply of moisture throughout the growing season.
Raspberry Royalty The Royalty Raspberry, 'Rubus 'Royalty', is cross between a purple and a red raspberry. The berries are versatile and can be used as fresh fruit, in preserves, or in pies and pastries. However, they may be grown in partial shade or under other environmental constraints.
Rhubarb Chipmans Canada Red Be sure to pull the stems loose, don't cut them off. Slow growth of older plants is a signal that they need dividing.
Blueberry Bluecrop It displays a fiery red fall foliage, and the reddish stems can be attractive in winter. The most popular variety in North America, it prefers an organically rich, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prune as needed in late winter beginning in the third year after planting.
Blueberry Blueray Pink tinged flowers are followed by edible, sweet, round, deep blue berries to 1/2 inch across. It is a midseason blueberry that ripens early August. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids.
Blueberry Jersey The bush is very vigorous and productive.
Blueberry Northland Clusters of dainty, waxy, bell-shaped, white flowers bloom in spring.
Blueberry Patriot It is self-pollinating.
Grape Frontenac Gris™ It is a reliable, outstandingly cold hardy, vigorous, heavy bearing grape.
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