Fruits

FRUIT TREES - APPLES

Fireside- large striped sweet flavor, cedar apple rust resistant

Haralred- juicy, tart,firm, red & very hardy

Honeycrisp- dessert quality, crisp & juicy, outstanding apple

Honeygold- Crisp, juicy & sweet yellow apple, hardier than Golden Delicious

Zestar- large, crisp juicy apple, good for fresh eating and baking

CHERRIES

Northstar - self pollinating, 8-10’, sour cherry, productive, hardy and good for pies

FIGS

Brown Turkey - grows to 10’. Hardiest of all figs, but still needs protection - self pollinating and everbearing

PEACHES

Redhaven - grows 15-20’, self fruitful, red and gold, smooth, fine flavor and disease resistant

July Elberta - large, juicy and yellow fleshed

PLUMS

Damson – self pollinating, European, good for preserves, dwarf

Mt Royal - blue, hardy, tender & juicy, 8-12’, good for preserves and to eat off the tree, dessert

PEARS

Moonglow- medium size, sweet and juicy, good for canning, eating and cooking

Red Bartlett- red skin, excellent for cooking, canning and fresh eating, pollinates with Moonglow

Parker- yellow bronze fruit, fine grained, tender juicy and very hardy

Note: Pears do not have a lot of sugar in their pollen, therefore it takes a lot of pollen and a lot of bees for pollination- it is best to plant three different varieties for best fruiting. Pears make wonderful espaliers.

PERSIMMON

Meader - grows 25-30’, sweet orange fruit, must ripen on tree or will be astringent.

RHUBARB

Chipman’s Red- bright red stems, one of the sweetest, excellent perennial

STRAWBERRIES

All Star- June bearing

Honeoye - June bearing

Itasca - June bearing

Sparkle - June bearing

Fort Laramie - everbearing

RASPBERRIES

Bristol - black raspberry, July

Anne - yellow

Boyne, hardy, productive, July, red

Caroline - ripens red, late Aug-Sept

Heritage - 2 crops, July & August

Kiwigold - gold fruit, everbearing

Autumn Britten - early September

GRAPES

Concord - Blue Black, excellent for eating

Edelweiss - very disease resistant, vigorous, green/white for dessert or wine

Swenson - crisp,very sweet red grape, hardy to -30 degrees

LOW-BUSH BLUEBERRIES
Vaccinium angustifolium - Low Bush Blueberries, happiest in sandy soils amended with lots of peat moss, plant both varieties for pollination, outstanding burgundy fall color and yummy berries, too. Brunswick is a cultivar, we also sell the straight species from a CT. grower

- Low Bush X cultivars: plant 2 varieties for cross pollination
- Chippewa grows to 30-40”,big dark juicy fruit and bright red fall color
- North Country grows to 18-24”, ½” abundant  fruit, sweet mild flavor
- St. Cloud grows to 4’ tall, outstanding flavor, abundantly produced
- Northblue
- Friendship

HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRIES
Vaccinium corymbosum, plant 2 varieties for cross pollination

- Bluecrop - Mid-season - grows 4-6’, excellent quality and disease resistance

- Blue Ray - Mid-season - High Bush - grows to 5’, rosy pink flowers, dessert quality berries

- Berkley - Mid-season - produces light-blue fruits of good quality and are vigorous, spreading and productive. The berries from 'Berkeley are the largest of all berries, store well and generally ripen one week after the cultivar, 'Blueray'.

- Blue Chip - Mid-season - The large fruits have good colour, firmness and flavour and are intended for fresh consumption

- Blue Jay - Early Mid-season - These native American varieties ripen in July and the harvest goes on for weeks. Very tasty & sweet,great for fresh fruit or baking - ripens just after bluecrop

- Bluehaven - Early Mid-season - excellent paired with Patriot

- Darrow - Late - Sets masses of berries the size of nickels -- and they have a sweet, robust flavor to match their large size.

- Earliblue - Very Early - Produces quality fruit early in the season. An upright, vigorous shrub with edible, sweet, deep blue round berries.

- Elliott - Very Late - Elliott bears more fruit at an earlier age than other varieties. Large, firm fruits with delicious sweet flavor. Vigorous plants.

- Friendship - Late - About 3 ft. tall at maturity, Friendship is a late season, sky blue berry of medium size and with a slightly wild flavor. Its productivity equals that of the Univ. of Minnesota crosses.

- Jersey - Late Mid-season - grows to 5-6’, late to ripen, dark blue and really sweet.

- Late Blue - Very Late - grows to 6’, large, late fruit into the fall.

- Northland - Early Mid-season - A half-high (4 ft.) bush with an expansive crown and sweeping branches. Northland will out-produce the other cultivars listed because it is a larger bush, but is not as hardy. Berries are medium size and sweet with a wild berry flavor.

- Patriot - Early Mid-season - grows 4-6’, large, firm, flattened, clustered fruit, excellent flavor, shiny dark green foliage turning fiery orange in the fall, excellent landscape plant.

-St. Cloud - Early - This new half-high blueberry will reach about 2 ft. when fully mature. Fruit is usually the first to ripen, and is small to medium with superior firmness and flavor. Bush is heavily productive.

Note: Blueberries like full sun and acid soil conditions 4.5 to 5.5 pH is optimal- use holly-tone fertilizer 2 x a year, and water during times of drought. Nice landscape plants with flowers, fruit and super fall color.  I love their red twig tips in the winter.

I recommend your state’s Cooperative Extension information on growing the different fruits. In NH, www.ceinfo.unh.edu, or call 1-877-398-4769.