Small fruits
Grape Petite Ami™ The Petit Ami Grape, 'Vitis 'Petit Ami', 'DM-8313-1 CV' (PP17,773), is a white grape that makes an excellent Muscat wine with just a hint of rose petal in the nose. Petit Ami Grape has a healthy vine with average productivity, good sugar/acid levels. This grape has nice size clusters. It was developed in Central Minnesota so the winter hardiness is good and also, good plant vigor. 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. The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home. Birds love grapes, so be sure to plant some to share.
Blackberry Chester Thornless It is late in ripening, starting in July. It is a fast grower and requires full sun. Chester is the most hardy thornless blackberry. It bears large, firm, sweet fruit, and is very resistant to cane blight. 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. 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. Blueberries are delicious, exceptionally nutritious, high in bioflavanoids. 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 has a sweet wild blueberry flavor, and this fruit is small to medium 1/4" in diameter. One of the earliest producing blueberry cultivars, it displays a profusion of dainty white tinged pink bell-shaped flowers in spring. It is a vigorous growing cultivar reaching bearing age in 2 years, and the fruits ripen in July. Northcountry has bright red fall colors. Plant with other cultivars for improved fruit production.
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. Plants appreciate a good organic mulch. Prune early before spring growth. 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. Bristol shows tolerance to powdery mildew. 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 It has a large fruit size and plant vigor of a purple hybrid with the high quality of a red. Royalty is hardy, has wide adaptation, and has good yield potential. This new cultivar hasgreat insect resistance and is among the largest fruited raspberries.
Rhubarb Chipmans Canada Red This perennial should be mulched deeply with manure each fall. This rhubarb does harvest well in fall and seldom goes to seed.
Blueberry Bluecrop This blueberry is considered the best for consistent yields, disease resistance and high quality. The most popular variety in North America, it prefers an organically rich, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop.
Blueberry Blueray The blueberry grows best on sites where most other crops fail. They perform well on loose textured soils--mixtures of sand and peat are best. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop.
Blueberry Jersey It is suitable for mechanical harvesting.
Blueberry Northland It has limber branches which do not break under heavy snow loads and adapts well to the sub zero climate.
Blueberry Patriot This vigorous, upright and open shrub is an excellent landscape plant with its spring flowers and orange fall color.
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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