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Small fruits
Grape Frontenac Gris™ The Frontenac Gris Grape, Vitis 'Frontenac Gris', is a coppery-peach colored grape with the aroma of peach and apricot. This muscat-like grape is desirable for white wine making, fresh eating and dessert. Frontenac Gris appears to be a multi-use wine grape that is an important addition to northern viniculture. 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. 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. The birds love grapes, so be sure to plant some to share.
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. Training canes to grow on a trellis, they can grow to 10' long. To maintain plants, be sure to water in dry weather and use mulch to conserve soil moisture and control weeds. Pruning on a regular schedule is also beneficial to the growth and health of the plant.
Blueberry Northblue The Northblue Blueberry, 'Vaccinium 'Northblue', has large fruit that is dark blue, with an excellent blueberry flavor and is great for fresh eating. A prolific bloomer, this blueberry produces huge midseason crop of blueberries starting in July. It offers striking multi-tone fall foliage colors - yellow through red. This low-growing blueberry is perfect for the home landscape. This blueberry prefers an acid soil for best plant health and fruit production. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids.
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. 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. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage. Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!.
Blueberry Northsky It grows into a compact mound, and Northsky begins spring completely covered in snow white blooms. Northsky needs another blueberry for pollination, so combine with Northland for maximum fruit production. Prune early before spring growth. 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. Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!.
Raspberry Bristol Black Berries have excellent quality and good flavor and are good for canning and freezing as well as fresh eating. Bristol shows tolerance to powdery mildew. Raspberries may be grown successfully at an elevation as high as 7,000 feet. 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 take little space, live for years and produce crops the second season after planting.
Raspberry Royalty The Royalty ripens mid-July. Raspberries may be grown successfully at an elevation as high as 7,000 feet.
Rhubarb Chipmans Canada Red This perennial should be mulched deeply with manure each fall. Rhubarb needs deep, moist but well-drained soil, and is generally trouble-free. Slow growth of older plants is a signal that they need dividing.
Blueberry Bluecrop The most popular variety in North America, it prefers an organically rich, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids. Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!.
Blueberry Blueray The foliage turns a burgundy color in the fall. It is similar to the Bluecrop, but a bit sweeter. This deciduous shrub is dense with an upright, multiple-branched growth habit.
Blueberry Jersey It is suitable for mechanical harvesting.
Blueberry Northland It is effective in shrub borders or as part of less formal shrub plantings in areas such as native plant gardens or open woodlands.
Blueberry Patriot You may get 10-20 pounds of dark blue, highly flavored fruit from a single bush.
Grape Frontenac Gris™ It has also been used to make a good ice-type wine where in the color is more red and the flavor quite intensely cherry.
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