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Small fruits
Grape Valiant The Valiant Grape, Vitis 'Valiant', is a round blue grape averaging up to half inch in diameter with skin that can be easily removed from the flesh, making it excellent for juices and fresh eating. This hardy, vigorous vine is very productive and an annual bearer. It ripens in late August and can survive temperatures down to -35 degrees with little to no winter injury. It also produces fruit in a short season, and the fruit is tart and excellent for eating, making jelly and for delicious grape juice. It produces grapes with low acid levels and high sugars. 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 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.
Blackberry Chester Thornless It is late in ripening, starting in July. Training canes to grow on a trellis, they can grow to 10' long. Blackberries are a delicious gourmet treat that may be eaten fresh or used in cobbler, cake, sauce, jam, jelly or syrup. 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.
Blueberry Northblue This low-growing blueberry is perfect for the home landscape. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop. This blueberry prefers an acid soil for best plant health and fruit production. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage. Plants appreciate a good organic mulch. 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. 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 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 Northsky It is the most cold hardy of all the blueberries and will be most productive with winter snow cover. Northsky needs another blueberry for pollination, so combine with Northland for maximum fruit production. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage. Prune early before spring growth. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids.
Raspberry Bristol Black Berries have excellent quality and good flavor and are good for canning and freezing as well as fresh eating. Bristol’s upright growth and cluster formation make its berries extremely easy to pick. Bristol shows tolerance to powdery mildew. The berries are versatile and can be used as fresh fruit, in preserves, or in pies and pastries. Raspberries may be grown successfully at an elevation as high as 7,000 feet. Raspberries take little space, live for years and produce crops the second season after planting.
Raspberry Royalty It has a large fruit size and plant vigor of a purple hybrid with the high quality of a red. 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.
Rhubarb Chipmans Canada Red The Chipmans Canada Red Rhubarb, Rheum 'Chipmans Canada Red', is one of the sweetest of the red rhubarbs with bright red stems that are delicious for sauces and pies. This perennial should be mulched deeply with manure each fall. Rhubarb thrives in cool locations and full sun, but in warmer climates, plants benefit from light shade but form longer, thinner stems.
Blueberry Bluecrop Prune as needed in late winter beginning in the third year after planting. Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!. The shallow, fibrous roots need constant moisture and good drainage.
Blueberry Blueray Birds love blueberries so be sure to plant enough to share!. It is a midseason blueberry that ripens early August. It is similar to the Bluecrop, but a bit sweeter.
Blueberry Jersey The bush is very vigorous and productive.
Blueberry Northland Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop.
Blueberry Patriot Prune early before spring growth.
Grape Frontenac Gris™ The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home.
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