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Gooseberry - Pixwell - Sale Price: $57.05 Hardy Shrub with Edible Fruit  The Pixwell Gooseberry is a deciduous shrub that provides edible fruit. Plant a row of them along a garden fence or just one for interest in a planting bed. The most valuable feature of your Pixwell Gooseberry is of course the edible fruit it produces from July and into September. Gooseberries are often picked when they’re still firm, green an under-ripe for use in pies, preserves, wines and other dishes. However, if you can contain your excitement you’ll witness your berries transform from their green to red, and eventually a deep purple. Your berries will be softer when ripened, but also oh so sweet! Your Pixwell Gooseberry will grow up to 6 feet in height with vigorous growth and a hardy nature. It’s mildew resistant and easier to prune than other varieties due to its almost thornless nature. It has a spring bloom of flowers that you probably won’t notice. However, bees and butterflies certainly will, making this plant a valuable asset to your yard’s wildlife in the spring as well as in the fall. Gooseberries have been prized for generations, and this variety will be an outstanding asset to your garden as well. * Nutritious berries * Hardy * Beneficial to wildlife

Grape - St. Croixâ„¢ - Sale Price: $49.95 The St. Croix Grape, Vitis 'St. Croix', is a sweet grape suitable for wine making. Medium to large dark blue berries are produced in medium-sized bunches on highly productive vines. Ripening in late August, it has excellent winter hardiness and disease resistant. It’s relatively easy to make good quality wine from this grape. It resists powdery mildew and black rot. St. Croix is a vigorous grower, hardy to about –25F, but its roots are a bit less hardy, unless there is snow cover. This grape tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, but must have good drainage. Grapes are primarily grown for fruit production in home fruitg ardens where they provide good ornamental value: bold summer foliage, showy fruit, some fall color and shaggy, twisted trunking and branching often best seen in winter. Grapes need a good support system like fences, walls, trellises, arbors or other structures. The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home. Grapes need full sunlight and high temperatures to ripen, so plant on southern slopes, the south side of windbreaks, or the south sides of buildings. Considered to be a good grape for juices and jellies. Birds love grapes, so be sure to plant some to share.

Strawberry - Ft. Laramie - Sale Price: $39.95 ‘Ft. Laramie’ is a super-sturdy, everbearing cultivar that produces a smaller, but more constant, supply of berries through the season. The winter-hardy, perennial plants are resistant to leaf spot and yield sizable harvests of good-sized fruit with firm texture and a strong, sweet strawberry flavor. The more sun they get, the more they produce, so choose a site that gets full sun (a minimum of six hours a day). Suggestion: Pinch the blooms off for the first 2 months on an everbearing strawberry to increase your harvest. If your plants get blooms in the first year, you can increase the following years harvest by pinching those blooms off. Fertile, well-drained soil will give you the best flavor. ‘Ft. Laramie’ can also be planted in tubs, containers and hanging baskets. Strawberries are nutritionally heart-healthy cancer-fighters, and are naturally low in calories, so plant enough for freezing —the flavor of home-grown strawberries will be most welcome in January! NOTE: Locate your strawberry patch away from areas where you have previously grown peppers, tomatoes, eggplant or potatoes. These plants can harbor verticillium wilt, which is devastating to strawberries. Zones 3-9.

Blackberry - Arapaho Thornless - Sale Price: $39.95 Blackberry Arapaho Thornless, Rubus 'Arapaho Thornless' PP#8,510, is the earliest Thornless Blackberry in existence. An important characteristic is its small seed size. The berries are large, very firm, and tasty with excellent flavor, and the berries are a favorite of songbirds and butterflies. The Arapaho Blackberry Plant is a self-supporting blackberry plant (does not need a trellis) that ripens earlier than any other thornless variety, in the last of May.  The large berry of the Arapaho Blackberry Plant is a colorful berry with reds and blacks. Arapaho Blackberry produces sucker plants which allow it to quickly establish a solid hedge row of plants. This new blackberry variety can be distinguished by its thornless canes with erect growth habit, its early ripening, and its excellent fruit flavor and firmness. Blackberries thrive in sandy or good to average garden soil. Plant them in full sun. In home gardens, keep plants about 3 feet apart. If planting in rows, keep them 3 feet apart in the rows, and keep the rows 5 to 8 feet apart. Mulch around the plants to a depth of 4 to 6 inches. Maintain depth of mulch by adding as necessary throughout the year. This berry is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. It is also a good source of Vitamin E, Folate, Magnesium, Potassium and Copper, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Vitamin K and Manganese.

Grape - Reliance Seedless - Sale Price: $49.95 The Reliance Grape, 'Vitis 'Reliance', is a red medium-sized, seedless table grape with high dessert quality. It is well suited for fresh eating, or can be used for juice. Reliance requires annual pruning, adequate fertilization and maximum sunlight, and it ripens early September.  Reliance grapes have a wide array of colors which they pass through before becoming a beautiful purple color, at which they are ready to eat. Color varies from red to a rather light pink, depending on climate, and it may be edible even when it shows almost no color at all. Will crack if weather is rainy during ripening time. Reliance has one of the better vines, and it is easy to train to cordons with spurs. This grape is one of the best tasting, red seedless table grape. Grapes are primarily grown for fruit production in home fruit gardens where they provide good ornamental value: bold summer foliage, showy fruit, some fall color and shaggy, twisted trunking and branching often best seen in winter. Grapes need a good support system like fences, walls, trellises, arbors or other structures. The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home. Grapes need full sunlight and high temperatures to ripen, so plant on southern slopes, the south side of windbreaks, or the south sides of buildings. Considered to be a good grape for juices and jellies. Birds love grapes, so be sure to plant some to share.