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Blueberry - Top Hat
Blueberry - Top Hat Blueberry ‘Top Hat’ is a perfect choice for small spaces, container gardening, and even bonsai! This compact little shrub produces a mass of pristine white blossoms in spring, and then becomes a prolific producer of full-sized, delectable sweet-tart fruits that you can eat fresh or use for pies, muffins, cobblers, jams, preserves, and syrup. Blueberries are extremely nutritious and have a high vitamin and antioxidant content. Every year they get more expensive at the grocery store … so why not grow your own? It will pay for itself with the first harvest in July and August. ‘Top Hat’ can be grown in-ground or in a large pot, in full sun or part shade; its most important requirement is acid soil (4.5 to 5.5 pH). After your harvest, you can enjoy the handsome, leathery leaves, which turn a ruddy bronze. Bonsai enthusiasts rave about how ‘Top Hat’ will even produce flowers and fruit in a bonsai dish! Zones 4-7.
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Blueberry - Earliblue - Sale Price: $32.95 The Blueberry Earliblue, 'Vaccinium corymbosum 'Earliblue', is a producer of firm, large berries with resistance to cracking. It has a mild sweet flavor and ripens uniformly. This variety is popular with both commercial growers and home gardeners. The plants grow upright and have a good cold tolerance. The open and upright bush will exhibit lovely burgundy leaves in the fall. Blueberries are acidic soil lovers. |
| Grape - Elvira - Sale Price: $39.95 Grape 'Elvira', Vitis labrusca 'Elvira', is a white-fruited variety and great for the northern climate and recommended for difficult growing areas. Producing medium berries, it is vigorous and hardy, ripening with Concord and being resistant to mildew. Elvira grapes make good, crisp white wine and the wonderful flavor pairs well with roast duck or other wild game. Elvira is a white variety of Vitis labrusca and Vitis riparia parentage. This white grape needs sunlight and high temperatures to ripen, so plant on southern slopes, the south side of windbreaks, or the south sides of buildings. Plant in the spring in deep, well-drained soils; avoid standing water in the spring. This vine has good ornamental value with bold summer foliage, some fall color, showy fruit, and shaggy branching, Elvira grape plants can be quite attractive all year round since they drape elegantly over fences or through lattices. |
| Raspberry - Logan - Sale Price: $42.75 Raspberry Logan, Rubus strigosus 'Logan', has black raspberries, affectionately known as Blackcaps by growers. They are native to North America. These uniquely flavored berries are popular in specialty foods, especially jams and ice cream, and are used as a coloring agent as well. The fruit is blue-black, round and small (2.0 g), and exhibits a whitish bloom on the exterior of the berry. Logan Raspberry has a distinct and moderately tart flavor, small seed and like the red raspberry, contains a hollow core. The bush will bear only on one-year-old stems. As soon as canes have produced fruit, prune them back to the ground to make room for the strong new canes. Additional pruning will be required to eliminate tangling and improve their ability to bear. Raspberry Logan is a very hardy and dependable producer. Tart and Tasty! |
| Blueberry - Patriot - Sale Price: $42.75 Good cold hardiness and consistent crops of Patriot’s gigantic fruit make this tops on the blueberry plant list. Expect 10-20 pounds of luscious berries from just one bush! ‘Patriot’ has huge (quarter-size), tart, dusky fruit bursting with true blueberry flavor, coming earlier than some other varieties, in late July. It is a highbush blueberry cultivar which typically grows at least 4’ tall or more, a perfect choice for a living fence. ‘Patriot’ will give you lovely, bell-shaped, white flowers in May; delicious, exceptionally nutritious fruit in July and a show of bright orange color in fall. If you have a low, wet (but well-drained) area in sun to part shade, just acidify the soil, plant it, mulch it, and it will thrive. Blueberries cost a small fortune anymore; grow your own and eat them right off the bush, or use them in cobbler, muffins, jam, jelly or syrup. Be sure to get several so you can share some with your feathered friends. Self-pollinating. Zones 4-8. |
| Lime - Kaffir - Sale Price: $126.95 The Kaffir Lime produces a dark green, bumpy fruit with leaves, zest, and juice that's used in Thai, Cambodian, and Indonesian cooking. Even the leaves are often used as an essential ingredient for flavoring many Asian dishes such as soups, curries and fish. This dwarf citrus tree, reaching up to 5 feet tall, can be grown outdoors year round in zones 9-10, but it is best suited for indoors. The Kaffir Lime tree thrives in potted environments and does well when grown on the patio or deck; in colder climates it needs to be brought indoors during winter. Its container needs to provide adequate drainage, and it prefers full sun in moist soil. This tree is prone to root rot if kept too wet, so it is best to allow the soil to dry out some between waterings. If grown indoors, keep near a sunny window. |
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