FRUITS
Apple 4 & 5 Way Combos
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Group 1 (4 way)
Gravenstein Gala Fuji Braeburn Group 2 (5 way) Yellow Delicious Gala Red Delicious Braeburn Fuji Group 3 (5 way) Fuji Honeycrisp Gala Braeburn Gravenstein |
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'Braeburn' Apple
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Category: Firm-tart
Best Use: Eating Taste: Mild, aromatic, classically sweet and almost caramelized in flavor Texture: Vey juicy but slightly pithy, lacking crunch Bloom Time: Mid-season Pollinators: Cortland, Empire, Fuji, Galla, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, Macoun, McIntosh & Yellow Delicious |
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'Cortland' Apple
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Category: Tender-tart
Best Use: Eating (especially in salads) Taste: Autumnal, floral and spicy, with good sweet flavor Texture: A little on the tender side, with a thick skin Bloom Time: Mid-season Pollinators: Braeburn, Empire Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Macoun, McIntosh, Liberty, Yellow Delicious, Jonathan |
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'Empire' Apple
Category: Tender-tart Best Use: Eaten fresh, or made into applesauce. Taste: Water, with a good balance of tart and sweet Texture: Crisp to the bite Bloom Time: Mid-season Pollinators: Braeburn, Cortland, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, Macoun, Yellow Delicious |
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'Fuji' Apple
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Category: Tender-sweet
Best Use: Eating (especially in salads) Taste: Sweet, slightly tart, earthy and reminiscent of snap peas Texture: Crisp and tender Bloom Time: Mid to Late Season Pollinators: Braeburn, Cortland, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, McIntosh |
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'Gala' Apple
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Category: Tender-sweet
Best Use: Eating Taste: Watery and not too sweet, with an astringent acetone aftertaste Texture: Thin-skinned and juicy Bloom Time: Early to Mid Season Pollinators: Braeburn, Empire, Gala, Jonathan, Liberty, Macoun |
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'Honeycrisp' Apple
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Category: Firm-sweet
Best Use: Eating, but works with baking Taste: Neutral, but with a sweet, grape juice flavor Texture: Reminiscent of biting into a water chestnut Bloom Time: Mid to Late Season Pollinators: Braeburn, Cortland, Fuji, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Liberty, Macoun |
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'Jonathan' Apple
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Category: Firm-snappy
Best Use: Eating and cooking Taste: Mildly sweet, tangy tart Texture: Juicy Bloom Time: Mid-Season Pollinators: Self-fertile |
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'Red McIntosh' Apple
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Category: Tender-tart
Best Use: Applesauce, or eating (it gets to mushy in pies) Taste: Classic apple flavor Texture: Very soft Bloom Time: Mid Season Pollinators: Braeburn, Cortland, Empire, Fuji, Gala, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, McIntosh, Yellow Delicious |
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'Winesap' Apple
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Category: Firm-tart
Best Use: Cider-making, eating Taste: Sour and pucker-inducing Texture: Tough skin with chalky flesh Bloom Time: Mid Season Pollinators: Sterile |
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'Tilton' Apricot
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Tilton apricot tree is the best variety for canning and drying, but is also delicious fresh off the tree. The Tilton apricot is heart-shaped, golden-yellow fruit with sweet, fine flesh. The Tilton apricot tree is a vigorous, productive tree that's self-fertile, but will yield more in the presence of another variety. Fresh Eating, Canning / Preserves. Harvest Period: Late. Strong, sweet/tart apricot flavor.
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'Bing' Cherry
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The Bing Cherry Tree is one of the most popular varieties of cherries. Bing is also used as the standard for quality because of its firm, sweet and large fruit. Bing is great for fresh eating. Bing produces delicious sweet fruit that is large with dark red skin. Bing is also very productive. Fruit is ideal for fresh eating or cooking. Fruit is very firm and reddish purple on the inside and also very juicy.
Bing is not a self-fertile and will need to be pollinated with Stella or Black Tartarian |
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'Black Tartarian' Cherry
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The Black Tartarian Cherry Tree is an excellent and very popular cherry for your home orchard. The flavor is very rich, robust and sweet and a favorite for many. It is juicy and has a blackish red colored skin. Fruit is large in size and perfect for fresh-eating and juice. Black Tartarian is a perfect pollinator for other sweet cherries. Bears at an early age and ripens early in the season. Black Tartarian needs pollinating with Bing and Stella Cherries. Bloom Time: Early Spring
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'Lambert' Cherry
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One of the most dependable and productive Sweet Cherries, Lambert (Prunus avium 'Lambert') is a wonderful addition to the home garden. You'll love the look—and the taste—of these large, firm cherries. Deep, dark red, and heart-shaped, Lambert are excellent fresh eating sweet cherries. Capture the incredible taste by canning them for use later in the year. This beloved variety has been grown and enjoyed for 150 years. The tree is moderately vigorous and it grows semi–upright. Pollinators - 'Black Tartarian' and 'Stella'. Bloom Time: Early Spring
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'Lapins' Cherry
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Lapins cherry is a dark red to almost black, large-sized cherry variety known for its sweet and juicy flavor. It is a self-pollinating variety, which means it can produce fruit on its own without requiring another cherry tree for cross-pollination. The Lapins cherry tree is a medium to large-sized tree that produces an abundance of fruit in mid to late season, usually around late June to early July. The cherries are firm, with a slight crunch when bitten into, and have a sweet, rich flavor with a hint of tartness.
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'Montmorency' Cherry
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This tart cherry variety has long been recognized as the standard of the industry. Montmorency is planted throughout North America and is considered the best tart cherry for cooking, baking, jams and jellies. The fruit is bright red, medium in size, with a clear, juicy flesh. Fruits are smaller, about nickel sized and are extremely juicy. Cherries are ripe when one can gently but firmly pull on the fruit and remove the fruit with the seed. The trees are self-fruitful, winter hardy and very productive. Bloom Time: Late Spring
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'Elberta' Peach
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This variety of tree is famed for producing large quantities of excellent fruit for canning. The juicy, yellow flesh is great for eating fresh, as well as canning and freezing. It is a freestone peach (also known as a melting peach), meaning that the flesh separates easily from the peach pit and softens as it ripens. Bloom Time: April - May. Self-fertile
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'Frost' Peach
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A tasty, yellow-fleshed peach, it is semi-freestone making it good for fresh eating and kitchen-made treats. Frost also excels as an ornamental tree due to its full, almost double-blossomed, rosy flowers! Ripens mid-season. Self-fertile.
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'Hale Haven' Peach
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One of the best canning peaches! This large fruit is excellent for fresh-eating and canning a breeze, so you can enjoy homegrown peaches all year round. Fruit has an attractive yellow skin blushed with a red cheek and firm, juicy flesh complete with a rich sweet taste. Tree is reliably productive. Bloom Time: April-May. Self-fertile
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'Redhaven' Peach
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This popular variety is known for being a top producer of medium-sized peaches. Fragrant, pink flowers blossom in the spring. When the fruit ripens in July, you’ll enjoy bushels of sweet peaches with almost fuzz less skin over firm, creamy-textured yellow flesh. These freestone peaches are great as a fresh snack or for canning and freezing. Bloom Time: April-May. Self-fertile
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'Reliance' Peach
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Our hardiest peach tree. This tree produces a heavy crop of fruit as far north as Canada, even after frigid winters. Perfect for northern fruit gardens! Features a flush of pink flowers in spring. Cold-hardy. Freestone. Ripens in July. Self-pollinating. The fruit is soft, sweet, and very juicy. Medium-sized fruits are great for canning, cooking, and fresh eating.
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'Suncrest' Peach
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A drip-down-your-chin peach. One of the juiciest peaches around, with very firm, fine-flavored, yellow flesh. The bright red skin is simply beautiful. Blooms later than most peaches; the blossoms can take a frost. Self-pollinating, but yields bigger crops when planted near a different peach variety with a similar bloom time. Ripens in August.
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'Veteran' Peach
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Veteran Peach is highly productive with medium sized fruits that have a golden skin with a red blush. The peach is freestone and firm, juicy, and somewhat coarse in texture. Sweet, firm, juicy. Golden with slight red blush fruit skin. Bloom Time: Mid March to Early-April. The yellow, freestone flesh is somewhat coarse and easy to peel, making it particularly good for canning, drying and freezing. Veteran is one of our best all-around peaches! Self-fertile
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'Bartlett' Pear
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The fruit is enjoyed both for eating fresh and cooking. The pears grow green on the tree but ripen to a light golden yellow. Bartlett pears are favored for their sweet taste and fragrance. These pears are also preferred for canning because of the ability of the fruit to hold its shape and retain its sweet flavor. Chefs and home cooks enjoy the firm quality of the pear, using it for baking desserts, such as crisps and pies. It is a valuable addition to savory dishes, including stuffings and roasted meats. Bloom Time: April-May, right before leaves emerge. Pollinators: D'Anjou
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'Burbank' Plum
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It produces red round fruit (technically 'drupes') with yellow variegation and gold flesh which are usually ready for picking from mid to late summer. Note that the fruits have hard inedible pits inside which must be removed before eating or processing. The fruits have a sweet taste and a juicy texture. The fruit are most often used in the following ways: Fresh eating, preserves and canning. Bloom Time: April. Pollinator: Santa Rosa and Superior
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'Methley' Plum
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The plums are known for their mild, sweet taste, and red to purple colored skin. The flesh is red and juicy. These plums are clingstone, meaning the pit clings to the flesh of the fruit, and the tree is a heavy bearer, producing a high yield of fruit. Home gardeners and homesteaders will enjoy eating the plums fresh or cooking with them. Plums can be made into jam, canned, or dehydrated into prunes. The plums will ripen in mid-summer. Self-pollinating but will produce more plums with another tree.
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'Stanley' Plum
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Oval-shaped fruits with deep blue-purple skin and sweet yellow flesh with a hint of green. The flesh is firm and does not cling to the stone. Stanley Plum Prunes ripen in early September. The fruit is tender with high sugar content, great for eating fresh and ideal for drying and baking. A self-fertile plum tree variety. Ripen in early September.
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'Putte' Blueberry
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Putte are very small, bluish-black blueberries with a very sweet wild blueberry flavor.
Putte blueberries are good for use in baked goods. Lowbush blueberry |
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'Blue Crop' Blueberry
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A great blueberry plant for colder climates. Produces big clusters of large, all-purpose berries — perfect in salads or pies, or served with cream. Cold-hardy. Ripens in July. Self-pollinating, but will yield larger crops if pollinated with Jersey or Earliblue. Mid-season. Highbush blueberry.
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'Duke' Blueberry
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Duke blueberries are one of the best early ripening. It is known both for its early season fruit, which is large with a firm, crisp texture, and its high yield of berries. The fruit has a tangy, sweet, delicate flavor. While self-pollinating, this variety benefits from cross-pollination with other cultivars, producing even larger yield. Bloom Time: Early Season/June. Highbush blueberry.
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'Northland' Blueberry
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Enjoy the sweet, juicy flavor of fresh blueberries right in your own backyard with our Northland blueberry plants. These hardy plants are known for their excellent tasting berries and winter hardiness. This is an early-season variety, ripening in July. The medium-sized, flavorful berries of the Northland are similar to wild blueberries with a high sugar content, making them a popular choice among berry lovers. They’re a delight when eaten fresh, and are preferred for jams, jellies, and sauces. These plants are self-fertile, but they will produce more fruit if they are cross-pollinated with another variety of blueberry. Highbush blueberry.
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'Patriot' Blueberry
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Quarter-size berries! This variety is big and bountiful — the largest early-season blueberry. The fruit has an outstanding flavor fresh, baked, and in preserves. Ripens in June. Self-pollinating, but will yield larger crops if you plant two or more, such as Duke. The dark blue berries have a richly sweet, juicy and satisfying flavor. Highbush blueberry.
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'Northblue' Blueberry
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A cold-hardy blueberry variety known for its landscape appeal and quality fruit production. Berries have a "wild" taste, ideal for baking or fresh eating, and are particularly juicy. A half-high blueberry with wild lowbush ancestry can withstand temperatures to minus 35°F, though snow protection boosts production. Sweet and juicy taste make them great for: Eating, Cooking, Baking, and Preserves. Half-high.
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