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Small fruits
Grape Mars The Mars grape is a vigorous growing selection that has been shown to have good resistance to common grape diseases. Its clusters are medium sized, cylindrical, and well filled. Versatile and fast growing, a grapevine can bear in just 2 years. This grape tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, but must have good drainage. 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. 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. The Chester Thornless Blackberry, 'Rubus 'Chester Thornless', is a semi-erect variety of blackberry that was developed by the USDA. To maintain plants, be sure to water in dry weather and use mulch to conserve soil moisture and control weeds. It is late in ripening, starting in July. Chester is the most hardy thornless blackberry.
Blueberry Northblue A prolific bloomer, this blueberry produces huge midseason crop of blueberries starting in July. It doesn’t take up much space, so makes for a fine landscape plant for borders, as hedge or specimen. This blueberry prefers an acid soil for best plant health and fruit production. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage. 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.
Blueberry Northcountry Plant with other cultivars for improved fruit production. Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids. The Northcountry Blueberry, Vaccinium 'Northcountry', has an attractive, sky blue colored fruit that is produced abundantly on this low, spreading shrub. Plants appreciate a good organic mulch. It likes an organically rich, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.
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. The flavor is similar to wild blueberries. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage. 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.
Raspberry Bristol Black Firm berries can be handled without bleeding. Raspberries may be grown successfully at an elevation as high as 7,000 feet. Although a well-drained soil is essential for success, a sandy soil will need to have plenty of organic matter incorporated in preparation. Raspberries need a plentiful supply of moisture throughout the growing season. Birds also love the fruit, so you may have to share the harvest.
Raspberry Royalty The Royalty Raspberry, 'Rubus 'Royalty', is cross between a purple and a red raspberry. It has a large fruit size and plant vigor of a purple hybrid with the high quality of a red. Birds also love the fruit, so you may have to share the harvest.
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. This rhubarb does harvest well in fall and seldom goes to seed.
Blueberry Bluecrop It displays a fiery red fall foliage, and the reddish stems can be attractive in winter. Very effective when planted in shrub borders or as part of less formal shrub plantings because of its ornamental value. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids.
Blueberry Blueray 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. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop.
Blueberry Jersey Prune as needed in late winter beginning in the third year after planting.
Blueberry Northland Northland has bright green leaves that turn orange in fall.
Blueberry Patriot It is low growing and spreading with arcing branches.
Grape Frontenac Gris™ This grape tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, but must have good drainage.
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