Introduced in the 1930s, Pixwell Gooseberry produces big green berries that ripen to pale pink in the summertime. The medium-to-large tart berries are excellent baked into pies or made into preserves. The easy-care, vigorous shrub grows 4-5 ft. tall. At maturity, the drought-tolerant and cold-hardy bush will yield 4-6 quarts of easy-to-pick fruits. Pixwell Gooseberry can be planted as a fruiting hedge in the edible landscape. Self pollinating. Zones 3-6.
Rocky Mountain native with an improved fruiting habit. Very fragrant, clove-scented yellow blooms appear in May followed by black teardrop-shaped edible fruit. Fall color is a fine orange to red. Tolerates dry conditions. An excellent shrub for multi-seasonal interest.
If you’re looking for a versatile and resilient berry plant for your homesteading or permaculture garden, look no further than the Jostaberry. This hardy plant, a cross between a black currant and a gooseberry, offers a unique flavor and abundant harvests, making it an ideal choice for any garden.
Sun-kissed, honey-sweet, and uniquely golden, Fall Gold loads canes with translucent amber berries that taste like dessert right off the vine. This everbearing standout treats you to a late-summer/early-fall harvest on first-year canes, with an encore the following early summer—perfect for snacking, jam, freezing, and showy fruit salads that actually look as special as they taste.
Heritage everbearing red raspberry is a favorite for its flavor, firmness and fruit size. This variety produces abundant crops of large, sweet, dark red berries that are perfect for eating fresh, canning, freezing, or making jams and jellies. These self-supporting, upright canes are hearty enough to grow in poor soil, but requires a well-drained site.
This bush has two harvest seasons, with a moderate yield in July and a heavy yield in September until frost, making them everbearing. Floricane berries ripen in July and primocane berries ripen in September through frost. Red Heritage is cold-hardy and self-pollinating -a licensed variety of Cornell University.
Extend the raspberry harvest season with Prelude, a very early-ripening, summer-bearing red raspberry. Typically bears most of its berries in mid-June, followed by a smaller fall-season harvest. The medium to large, red berries have very good flavor, and are borne on vigorous plants.
Flambeau Seedless Grape is another grape that was developed specifically for cold hardiness. Flambeau has seedless, pink to red grapes on clusters of small to medium-sized berries with sweet, strawberry like flavor that ripen in early September. Excellent for eating out of hand, juice and jelly.
Vigorous vine. This mostly seedless purple grape grows well on an arbor or screen. The slip-skin fruit has an excellent flavor. Tolerant of alkaline soil. Cold-hardy — stands up to temperatures as low as -30ºF. Ripens in early September. Self-pollinating.
Valiant grape is a cold-hardy variety of grape vine known for its sweet and tart flavor, making it suitable for fresh eating, juice, jams, and jellies. It is self-fertile and can withstand very low temperatures, thriving in hardiness zone 2.
Marquette was introduced in 2006 by the University of Minnesota. It is known as a disease resistant red grape variety that produces medium-bodied, dry, red wine and is suitable for extended maturation in oak barrels. Over time, it has become one of the most popular grapes adapted to cold climates.
LaCrosse Grape is another great, cold hardy vine from the great grape breeder Elmer Swenson of Minnesota and Wisconsin fame! This is a white, seeded grape with round, green to gold fruit on full medium-sized clusters. Although bred for wine making, its sweet, juicy flavor is great for eating out of hand. Ripens in September.
