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| 'Cortland' apple Mid-season bloomer with medium-sized, bright red fruit. White, crisp, juicy, slightly acid flesh. Excellent for eating and cooking. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). Pair with 'Johhny Red', 'Macintosh' and or 'Winesap' for pollenizer. |
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| 'Johnny Red' apple Mid season blooming. Round, medium-sized bright red fruit. Sweet, crisp, juicy flesh. Good for cooking and desserts. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). Pair with 'Cortland', 'Macintosh' and or 'Winesap' for pollenizer. |
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| 'Macintosh' apple Mid season blooming. Red striped color. Richly flavored, white flesh with fine dessert qualities. Keeps well. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). Pair with 'Johhny Red', 'Cortland' and or 'Winesap' for pollenizer. |
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| 'Red Delicious' apple Late blooming. Medium-sized, striped to solid red fruit. Light yellow, crisp and sweet flesh. Fresh eating and salad variety. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). Pair with 'Yellow Delicious', or 'Winesap' for pollenizer. |
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| 'Yellow Delicious' apple Late blooming. Medium-sized, bright golden-yellow fruit. Firm, crisp and juicy flesh. Good for fresh eating and cooking. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). Pair with 'Yellow Delicious', or 'Winesap' for pollenizer. |
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| 'Red Fuji' apple Fuji apples have it all--super sweet, super juicy and super crisp. A great snacking apple! Fuji apples are aromatic, sweet, juicy and crisp with a firm texture. Excellent for fresh salads. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). |
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| 'Winesap' apple Old variety still one of the most popular. Good for eating, juice, and baking. Juicy and tart, with crisp, yellowish flesh covered with a deep red skin. All-purpose apple with good keeping qualities, and one of the best for cross-pollination. Semi-dwarf. |
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| 'Bing' cherry Large, sweet, black fruit. Dark red, firm, crisp, meaty flesh with sub acid flavor. Good quality fresh eating or canning. Requires pollenizer. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide) |
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| 'Meteor' cherry Large, sour, bright red fruit. Yellow, medium firm, juicy flesh. Pleasant, mildly acidic flavor. Use for pies and preserves. Self-fertile. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide) |
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| 'Montmorency' cherry Large, tart, red fruit. Firm, juicy, yellow flesh. Use for pies and canning. Self-fertile. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide) |
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| 'Rainier' cherry Sweet, large, yellow fruit with a red blush. The fruit is firm and the flesh is fine-textured and clear to light yellow. Distinct sweet flavor. Pollinate with 'Bing'. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). |
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| 'Early Elberta' peach Very large fruit resistant to brown rot. Skin red blushed over a deep golden yellow color. Ships well. Freestone. High quality eating and canning. Self-fertile. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). |
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| 'Hale Haven' peach Yellow flesh and freestone. Self-fertile, but production will increase if two or more varieties are planted together. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). |
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| 'Reliance' peach Hardiest yellow-fleshed freestone. Very winter hardy. Dark red skin. Self-fertile. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). |
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| 'Methley' plum Medium to large fruit. Purplish skin with juicy, melting, red flesh. Delicious flavor. Self-fruitful. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). |
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| 'Santa Rosa' plum Early to mid summer Japanese plum with large, attractive, dark reddish purple fruit. Self pollinating tree. Excellent to use for home drying along with its fresh taste when ripe. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide). |
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| 'Stanley Prune' plum Large, dark blue fruit. Richly colored yellow, firm flesh. Produces large annual crop good fresh, for desserts, canning, jams, jellies and dried. Freestone. Self-fertile. Semi-dwarf (12-15' tall, 14' wide) |
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| 'Concord Seedless' grape Blue-black, seedless berries in compact clusters. Vigorous, hardy vine. Fruit useful for fresh eating, pies, jelly and jams. |
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| 'Fredonia' grape Large clusters of blue-black medium to large berries ripen early and keep well. Standard juice and dessert variety. |
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| 'Niagara' grape Light green, turning pale yellow to whitish when ripe. Long, tapering clusters of large berries. Useful for desserts, juice and wine. |
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| 'Red Lake' currant Outstanding variety with clusters of bright red berries of good quality. Vigorous, disease resistant and cold hardy. Semi-erect and productive. |
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| 'Pixwell' gooseberry Medium, pale green becoming pink when ripe. Fruit borne on long pedicels with few throns. Unpicked, ripe fruit will keep up to a week. Great for all culinary purposes. |
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'Triple Crown' blackberry
Thornless. Grows 5-6' in height. This variety is a semi erect type plant, bears very heavy, large fruit with excellant flavor. A more wind resistant variety, its canes do not brake at base like some varieties. |
Fruit is borne on two-year old canes. Prune out fruit bearing canes after fruiting, being careful not to cut new canes (next year's fruiting canes). | |
| 'Navaho' blackberry Thornless blackberry that is erect and self-supporting. Glossy black berries, sweeter and firmer than some other thornless varieties, with smaller seed size. Also very winter hardy. This patented variety requires little maintenance. No wires or trellis needed. |
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| Blueberry bushes | ||
| 'Bluecrop' blueberry Large, high quality fruit, disease resistant, ripening mid-season. Plants grow 4-6' tall in an upright, open growth habit. |
Plant at least two varieties for pollenizing! | |
| 'Blueray' blueberry A mid season producer, high quality powder blue berries excellent for dessert. Burgundy foliage in fall. Upright growing habit to 5' high. |
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| 'Patriot' blueberry Large, tangy fruit, ripening early season. Plants grow 34' high in an open, spreading growth habit. Nice red fall foliage. |
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| Raspberry bushes | ||
| 'Boyne'
red raspberry This extremely winter hardy variety is very productive with sweet, dark red fruit. Very popular in northern states. |
Fruit is borne on two-year old canes. Prune out fruit bearing canes after fruiting, being careful not to cut new canes (next year's fruiting canes). | |
| 'Heritage'
red raspberry This everbearing variety bears fruit the first year. Produces light crop in spring, and a heavy crop in fall. |
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| 'Reveille' red raspberry An early season variety, that bears heavy crops of large fruit. Berries do not crumble when picked. Very tolerate of fluctuating temperatures,and very winter hardy. |
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| 'Fall Gold'
golden raspberry This everbearing variety produces golden yellow raspberries that are sweet as sugar. Great for freezing. Grows well in the midwest. |
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| 'Jewel'
black raspberry Heavy yields of large black berries with excellent flavor. Highly disease resistant. |
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| Strawberries | ||
| 'Cardinal' strawberry Glossy red fruit on June-bearing plants will produce in our area for two to three weeks in early summer. Plant 'Ozark Beauty' to extend strawberry season. |
Plant both everbearing and June bearing varieties together for a continuous crop! Plant 7-8 plants per 10 foot row. Space rows 2-3' apart. |
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| 'Ozark Beauty' strawberry Glossy red, long-necked fruit. Very mild, sweet flavor. Very productive everbearing variety will bear fruit in late spring and again in fall. Plant with June-bearing 'Cardinal' to extend fruit season. |
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| 'Sure Crop' Strawberry Vigorous growth makes this variety popular with home gardeners. Plants produce good crops in almost any growing region or soil type. Firm fruit makes it a useful type for fresh eating or the freezer. |
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| TOMATOES | ||
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Sweet Million Hybrid Terrific flavor and high yields of super-sweet cherry tomatoes that have an excellent, hybrid-bred disease resistance. Long chains of smooth, dark red, 1 to 1 1/2" fruits are produced on large, vigorous plants. Matures early and continues until frost. Indeterminate. |
Cherry tomatoes |
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Juliet Hybrid The first elongated, grape-like fruits that won't crack. Clusters of unusual, sweet-flavored fruits cling to the vine longer than any other cherry tomato. Glossy, red-skinned fruits weigh 1 oz. each. Indeterminate. |
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Yellow Plum Vigorous vines produce high yields of 1 1/2" cherry-type, plum-shaped tomatoes in clusters. Very sweet and mild, great eaten fresh like "plums" off the vine or ideal for salads or preserves. Bears full season. Indeterminate. |
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Patio Hybrid A favorite of those who enjoy container gardening or have limitied space. Vines are extremely compact, yet they produce medium-sized, deep oblate fruits that are smooth, firm and flavorful. Determinate. |
Container tomatoes |
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Early Girl Hybrid Extra early, full-sized slicer with truly tasty fruits early in the season. Meaty, red fruits average 4 to 6 oz.. Slightly flattened, bright crimson with firm texture and blemish-resistant skin. Hardy vines and heavy yields. Indeterminate vines. |
Early tomatoes |
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Rutgers All-purpose variety, ideal for canning. Ripens evenly from inside out. Bright red fruits with heavy walls average about 7 oz. Old-fashioned flavor. Full-bodied flavor and disease resistance. Indeterminate vines. |
Medium-sized tomatoes |
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Jet Star Hybrid Prolific producer of big, globe-shaped fruits that ripen all the way through. Excellent flavor with low acidity. Early, compact habit. Indeterminate vine. |
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Celebrity Hybrid Medium-sized globe-shaped fruits are crack-resistant and average 7 oz. Semi-determinate. Multiple disease resistance and perfectly balanced flavor. |
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Lemon Boy Lemon-yellow, not golden in color. Highly adaptable plants yield large, deep oblate fruits averaging 6 to 7 oz. and about 3 1/2" across. Out-yields all other "golden" tomatoes available. Mild flavored Lemon Boy adds inviting color to salads. Indeterminate. |
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Roma VF The most well-known paste-type tomato, perfect for sauces, pastes and ketchup. Its heavy crops of bright red, pear-shaped fruits are nice and meaty with few seeds. Determinate. |
Paste & Drying Tomatoes |
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Park's Whopper Hybrid Earlier and tastier than the original Whopper with big, red 4" fruits that feature improved disease resistance and crack resistance and more uniform fruit size. Start harvesting in 65 days and keep picking until frost. Indeterminate vine. |
Large Tomatoes |
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Better Boy Hybrid One of the most popular hybrids with spectacular midseason tomatoes that are plump, juicy and deep red in color. Often weighing in at more than 1 lb, once they arrive they just keep on coming. Brilliant scarlet skin, juicy yet firm. Heavy foliage protects fruit from sunscald, and spreading vines produce in abundance. Excellent disease resistance. Indeterminate vines. |
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Giant Oxheart Large 12 oz. to 2 lbs fruits are firm, meaty with thick walls, few seeds and mild flavor. Tons of heart-shaped fruits are produced on vigorous vines. Late to mature, but worth the wait. |
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Pineapple Enormous, uniquely patterned, yellow-red striped fruits are of a beefsteak type. 5" and larger, meaty flesh, mild flavor and no green shoulders. Heavy foliaged plants produce great yields. Indeterminate. |
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| Goliath Hybrid Smooth, bright red, deep oblate fruits average 10-15 oz. Sweet flavor, virtually blemish free. Excellent disease resistance. Indeterminate. |
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Brandywine Heirloom tomato dating back to 1885, and generally considered to be the world's best tomato. Good yields of extra-large fruit weighing up to 1 1/2 lbs. Firm, clear-skinned, light rosy-pink fruits. Indeterminate vines. |
Heirloom Tomatoes |
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Caspian Pink Heirloom originally grown in Russia in the area between the Caspian and Black Seas. Excellent flavor for fresh eating! Indeterminate vines. |
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Mr. Stripey Red and yellow-striped heirloom adds color to any gourmet salad. Large, ridge shouldered fruits are mild-flavored and very low in acid. Indeterminate. |
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German Johnson Longtime favorite in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast is one of the parent lines of Mortage Lifter. Vigorous, potato-leaf vines produce mild-flavored, meaty, rough, 12 to 24 oz. fruits with pink skins and yellow shoulders. One of the highest rated pinks for flavor and yield. Indeterminate. |
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Peron (sprayless) Red fruit on strong plants that have proven to take all sorts of abuse with little ill effect. Great for beginners and negligent gardeners. Fruits contain up to 2 1/2 times the ususal Vitamin C. |
Care-free tomatoes |
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Habanero Among the very hottest ever measured! 1,000 times hotter than Jalapeno. Native to Yucatan, lantern-shaped, 1" by 1 1/2" pods with thin, wrinkled, light green flesh ripen to golden orange. A favorite for sauces, plants grow to 36" tall. |
Hot to Hellfire Peppers |
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Thai Hot A Thailand original that's ornamental as well as edible - if you can stand the heat! Its stocky, 8" plants are covered with peppers that start out deep green and mature to red and grow about 1 1/2" long. Fleshy pods are especially good in Oriental dishes and chili. Pretty as a border or container plant. |
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Serrano Chili Whether used green or red, this is one very hot pepper! Flavorful peppers are perfect for chili sauce, salsa, hot pepper vinegar and pickles. Vigorous 30" plants are covered with 2", thin-walled fruits. |
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Ancho 101 Mexicans use this pepper fresh to make chilir rellanos. Ancho's heart-shaped fruits, 4" by 2 1/2" at the shoulder, have medium thick walls and turn from blackish-green to rust red as they mature. The richly flavored mature peppers are often dried and ground into chili pepper. Peppers taper to a blunt point, and wrinkled skin is even more distinctive when dried. Plants are 30 to 36" tall with a spreading habit. Dried peppers may be strung onto long ropes or wreaths. |
Mild to Hot Peppers |
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Big Chile Hybrid Gigantic yields of green shilis in the mild Anaheim or California chili class, but so much bigger! Huge, 8 to 10", 4 oz. fruits with thick flesh and low pungency (about as hot as a Jalapeno) taste delicious roasted, broiled and diced. Early fruits mostly used green, but mature red. |
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Tam Jalapeno Mildly pungent pepper matures early and is just right for pickling. Semi-compact 22-24" plants yield lots of cylindrical fruits, medium-green to red. |
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Ivory Hybrid The first ivory-white pepper. Extremely high yields of medium-sized, blocky peppers with a rich, creamy color. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus. |
Bell & Sweet Peppers |
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Chocolate
Beauty A medium-large, very smooth 3 and 4 lobed fruits mature from green to a very attractive chocolate color. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus. |
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Chocolate Mini Bell Pepper Gourmet miniatures grow to a doll-sized, cute as a bug's ear 2" with all the flavor of a full-sized bell. These bite sized treats can be stuffed, pickled, canned or eaten fresh as a snack. Also makes a delicious and unusual accent to hors d'oeuvre platters and salads. High yielding plants can grown grown in ground or containers. |
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Purple
Beauty A medium-large, smooth and sweet bell that ages to pretty purple. |
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Lilac Bell A medium-sized sweet bell. |
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Red
Beauty A medium-large, smooth sweet red bell adds lovely color to fresh salads. Peppers can be picked green, or left to age to their brilliant scarlet hue. |
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Bell Boy
Supreme Hybrid |
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Sweet Banana
Supreme Hybrid Early, heavy producer of sweet banana types that mature from light yellow to deep red. Fruits are 8" long by 2" across, smooth and sweet, and much more productive than the non-hybrid Sweet Banana. |
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| OTHER TASTY EDIBLES TO GROW | ||
| Horseradish Plant root sections in spring, then carefully dig up in fall for harvest. Save back a root portion to replant for the following year's harvest. Plant in an area of the garden where plant roots won't be disturbed to prevent being overun by horseradish! Zone 3 |
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| 'Jersey Giant' asparagus This male hybrid won't expend energy producing seed, instead putting everything into producing good tasting stalks. A good disease resistant variety. Zone 3 |
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Green Husk Tomatillo Unusual 2" fruits are harvested green - the husks are removed before cooking. A staple ingredient in Mexican Salsa Verde (green sauce). Tart, yellow-green fruits can also be used to add a distinctive taste to salads. Determinate. |
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| Kiwi This hardy climbing vine is as useful as an ornamental as it is for its edible fruit. Leaves turn bright yellow in fall. Tolerant of a variety of soil types, but will thrive in moist, well drained sites. Plant one male and one female vine for fruit production. One male plant can pollinate up to eight female plants. Zone 4 |
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| 'Victoria' rhubarb Thick bright red or green stalks are tender and tart. Great for pies and sauces. An heirloom garden classic. Zone 3 |
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| Chaenomeles speciosa (quince) Flowering quince is an early harbinger of spring, with blooms of salmon, red or white varieites on interesting branches. Quince stems make wonderful Asian-looking floral arrangements and can be forced to bloom in late winter indoors. Large, apple-like fruits are produced in mid-summer, and can be used to make quince preserves. Shrubs grow 5-7' tall and around. Plant in full sun to partial shade. Zone 4 |
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| Asimina triloba (pawpaw) Wonderful large, 6-12" drooping leaves stand out among the cottonwoods, oaks, maples and redbuds along roadsides and woodland edges. This native tree produces purple flowers before the leaf buds open in April and May. They're followed by edible, waxy, irregular-shaped fruit that tastes like bananas. Fruits are greenish-yellow and mature to black, and you have to be quick to beat the wildlife to these unique fruits! Trees grow 15-20 feet, sometimes larger in really perfect sites. This understory tree requires afternoon shade. Zone 5 |
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| Carya illinoiensis (pecan) This massive shade tree is the pecan producer of the industry in the U.S. Lustrous, dark green foliage does not provide much fall color, but the nuts more than make up for this shortcoming. Best growth occurs in moist, well drained soil. It is native from Indiana and Iowa to Texas and Mexico. Grows 70-100' high with a sprad of 40-75'. Zone 5-9 |
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| Diospyros virginiana (persimmon) Though not the most beautiful tree, it does provide dependable toughness and tasty fall fruit! Pyramidal to oval habit with green foliage turning yellow to reddish purple in fall. Fragrant white lily-of-the-valley-like flowers in late spring are followed with 1 1/2" yellowish-red to pale orange berries, which ripen in fall. Adaptable to very dry conditions, trees grow 35-60' tall with a 20-35' spread. Native from Connecticut to Florida, and west to Texas and Kansas. |
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| Morus alba (common mulberry) Wild looking, scrubby trees with lustrous green leaves that turn a pleasing yellow in fall. Large, juicy, purple fruits resemble blackberries and have a sweet, mild flavor. Great for pies, preserves and sharing with wildlife, mulberry trees grow anywhere and are not much affected by disease or pests. Green builders are using this wood for beautiful flooring. Trees grow 30-50 feet. Zone 4 |
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| Sambucus canadensis (American
elderberry) You see the large white flower clusters along roadways in summer. Medium-sixed purple-black berries follow in August and September, and make wonderful jams, jellies and wine! Prefering moist soils, this shrub can grow in dry sites also but not as vigorously. Plants mature to a height of 6-10' with a spread of 6-8'. Full sun to light shade. Zone 3-9 |
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We carry a full line of quality garden seeds, including certified organic. |
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