Berries
Listed below are some of the more popular varieties that we typically stock during the season. However, due to various reasons, we may not have every variety listed at all times. To make sure that we have the exact variety you are looking for in stock, please call us at 859-384-GROW.
Blueberries
Bluecrop Blueberry : A mid-season, good flavored berry. Consistent producer of clusters of medium to large, light-blue fruit of good quality. Hardy and more drought resistant than most. Plant two varieties for best fruit production. Zone: 4
Northland Blueberry : These berries have a wild blueberry flavor that is great for pies and fresh eating. Very productive and vigorous plant even after the harshest of winters. Plant two varieties for best fruit production.
Elliott Blueberry: Nice ornamental bush worth bluish green leaves and late blooming flowers. Fruit is small-to-medium in size and light blue in color. Flavor is mild. Self-pollinating. Zone 4
Blue Ray Blueberry: An early mid season berry. It ripens a few days ahead of Bluecrop. The fruit is very large and firm, and has a fair scar. It produces an aromatic flavor. The clusters are large and very tight. The bush is vigorous and productive. Similar to Bluecrop but somewhat sweeter.
Duke Blueberry: Very early ripening. A vigorous, upright bush with consistently high yields. It is the most widely planted early ripening highbush variety. It blooms later than other varieties but ripens early which protects the fruit from late spring frosts. The medium sized fruit has good color and firmness and grows in open clusters which makes harvesting easier.
Raspberries
Heritage – Red Everbearing: This hardy variety can, as all fall bearing varieties, produce two crops. The first comes in July and the second is the fall crop that starts in September and lasts right up until the first hard freeze. Berries are large, brilliant red, extremely firm and attractive. These berries are superb for freezing and delicious for table use. Because the fall season is usually cooler, the fall crop is larger than the summer crop. And the yield from only one full crop will usually be greater than the combined yield if allowed to double crop. Rated the number one fall bearing variety.
Latham-Red Junebearing: It is quite disease and virus resistant making it a good home garden and small farm choice. The fruit ripens mid-season and has an extended harvest period producing small fruit with good color. This berry is highly recommended for colder climates.
Fall Gold – Gold Everbearing: The Raspberry shrub is an excellent, productive variety for East and Midwest growers. Some of the largest, most flavorful, golden yellow berries, this sweet flavored variety pairs nicely with the Caroline Raspberry. This disease-resistant raspberry may be frozen or used for preserves. This is an everbearing variety (harvest in spring and fall)
Royalty Purple-June Bearing A cross between a purple and a red raspberry, the Royalty Raspberry produces some of the largest raspberries. Its large, reddish fruits are sweet and very flavorful when eaten fresh and are excellent for jams and jellies.. This plant also tends to be extremely productive and vigorous in its growth.
Grapes
Concord-Seedless: Grapes are smaller than regular Concord and will have an occasional seed. The flavor is the same as a regular Concord grape but slightly sweeter. The concord seedless generally ripens 1 week earlier than the seeded Concord and is excellent for pies, jams, jellies, and wine. Once the vine becomes established it shows improved vigor and productivity.
Himrod’White Seedless: The hardiest of the white seedless. It is of the finest quality for eating. Ripens in mid-August in Zone 6. The vines do well in warmer areas of Zone 4, 5 & 8. Hardy to -15.
Reliance: Cold-hardy and vigorous, Vitis ‘Reliance’ is a vigorous seedless grape variety that produces medium-sized clusters of glossy red grapes early in the season. Firm and sweet, the grapes are juicy, nicely flavored and perfect for eating right off the vine.
Blackberries
Tri Crown: Triple Crown’ is a new Blackberry that will bear consistent huge fruit yields year after year. Fruits ripen to a juicy sweet flavor; over a 5-week period you can harvest and enjoy eating the large black beauties everyday for over 30 days. The plant is semi-erect and thornless and bears large, flavorful fruit. Strong canes can support many pounds of fruit without trellising. Triple Crown would be a good choice to help extend the blackberry season for home gardeners.
Strawberry
All Star – Everbearing: A spring-bearer, ‘Allstar’ has excellent resistance to fungus diseases, greatly improving its yield and reducing your labor in the garden. The large, juicy-sweet berries are great for eating fresh or for freezing.
Eversweet – June Bearings: Eversweet is an everbearing strawberry that even gardeners in the midwest find irresistible! (Who doesn’t have long, hot summers these days?!) Perfect for patio containers and growin’ bags as well as garden beds, this self-pollinating wonder continues to set large, firm, juicy-sweet berries all summer long, no matter what the weather does!