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SMALL FRUIT
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Small Fruit Section at Grobe's
(Extends also against barn)
ALL SEASON STRAWBERRIES
There is nothing sweeter than being able to harvest your own little snippet of summer flavour with strawberries that bloom and produce fruit all season long. 'Berries Galore' is perfect for small containers, while 'Seascape', 'Berried Treasure Pink' and Berried Treasure 'Red' are available in larger pots that can be put into your own favourite pot or plot in the garden. An easy way to get the little ones interested in the garden - but watch out - you might never see any fruit yourself!
PAW PAW
This tropical-looking shrubby and rare Carolinian tree is covered by drooping large green leaves and eventually will bear chubby aromatic green fruit. High in vitamins and minerals, it is a deliciously sweet, rich treat with a ‘custard-like’ texture akin to banana. It seldom grows taller than 25 ft. and while tolerant of some shade, it does best in sun in rich well-drained soil. (Note: Plants are 2 gallon shrubs - LATE AVAILABLE).
HASKAP BERRIES
Looking like blueberries, but with 5 times the anti-oxidants, this honeysuckle cousin produces heavy yields of flavourful berries that taste like a blueberry/raspberry combination, and are in huge demand in Japan (where they are known as honeyberries). Plants bear heavy flowers in mid-April, with fruit ripening in late June/early July. A product of many years of breeding at the University of Saskatchewan, Grobe's has a limited supply of Aurora, Borealis, Blizzard and Smart Berry Blue (pollinator) available. These are well documented as the very best combination of varieties for use to ensure large yield.
Additionally, we offer Japanese haskaps (which are also known as Yezberry) with varieties Solo, Maxie and Keiko. These do not pollinate with those previously mentioned (but amongst themselves). They flower a bit later, and the fruit is larger.
BLACK CHOKEBERRY
While originally only planted to attract birds, Chokeberry or Aroniaberry is being introduced into gardens for human consumption as well. Grobe's will offer both the native Black Chokeberry (special order) as well as the excellent cultivar 'Nero'. This plant bears a heavy crop of black berries that are high in antioxidants, anthocyanins, fibre, Vitamin C and are excellent for making jams, juices or eating fresh. Growing 3-5 ft. tall in sun, it has white spring flowers and red fall foliage that make it landscape worthy as well!
DWARF THORNLESS BLACKBERRY
Baby Cakes Thornless Blackberry is a dwarf, thornless blackberry perfect for container gardening with its compact habit. Spring and early summer bring bright white flowers. In summer, large, sweet berries present on top of the plant in a fireworks-like spray of fruit. The plant has a somewhat round shape with upright growth reaching 3-4' in height. In most regions, this blackberry will produce twice with a mid-summer floricane crop and a mid-fall primocane crop. Tasty and prolific.
DWARF THORNLESS RASPBERRY
This revolutionary, thorn-free dwarf raspberry (Raspberry Shortcake) has a compact habit and is ideal for large patio pots or small gardens. It requires no staking and bears full-size, sweet fruit in July. Cut dead canes each spring to the ground, leaving older wood with new growth emerging for this year's fruit production. The ample ground sprouts will become fruit bearing canes next year. A Grobe staff favourite.. they are the berry bushes we almost hope won't sell out!
THE LATEST IN BLUEBERRY BREEDING
With their reputation as a 'superfood' due to their anti-oxidant laden berries, blueberries continue to grow in popularity. Among the 10 varieties on offer this year are three highly sought varieties that offer the latest in breeding. 'Razz' has the great flavour similar to its siblings Bluecrop and Blue Ray, tasty Sweetheart has the potential to bear more than one crop of berries in a season and 'Cabernet Splash' has, in addition to delicous berries, ever-changing foliage that emerges a deep, dark purple colour that is a mottled green in season before becoming a fiery red in the fall. Additionally, we will have a good supply of 3 in 1 Blueberry plants.
SEA BUCKTHORNS (SEA BERRY)
While relatively new to Canadian gardeners, sea-buckthorn (sometimes known as seaberry) has been popular in Europe for years, and it's berries are highly prized. These berries are a recognized 'super food' containing 12x the Vitamin C of an orange, with high amounts of protein, fibre, anti-oxidants, high omega fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. The benefits of using the fruit of this plant (both externally and internally) continue to mount with new uses continuing to be found.
The plants are 'dioecious' (which means that male and female flowers exist on different plants) meaning that a male and female plant needs to be present to have the fruit form on the female plant, fertilized from the pollen produced by the male. A single male plant can pollinate as many as 7 or 8 female plants. The plant is a large, hardy, sun-loving, thorny shrub with attractive silver grey leaves much like Russian Olive, and it offers protection for birds and small animals. It will not tolerate wet conditions, preferring well-drained, loamy soils. It offers valuable protection for birds and small animals. Trees generally grow to 16 ft. tallby 12 ft. wide. In addition to the Male Seabuckthorn, Grobe's offers female Orange Delight Seabuckthorn, specially bred to bring some of the heaviest fruit crop possible. **N/A 2024
The following is a complete list of small fruiting plants available this year.
(Please note that other varieties of fruit may be special ordered).
Strawberry Varieties
Berries Galore - Ever Bearing
Berried Treasure Red - Ever Bearing
Berried Treasure Pink - Ever Bearing
Seascape - Ever Bearing
Gooseberry Varieties
Pixwell
Hinnomaki Red
Jostaberry (hybrid currant/gooseberry)
Raspberry Varieties
Boyne Red - Summer Bearing
Killarney - Summer Bearing
Willamette - Summer Bearing
Souris - Summer Bearing
Raspberry Shortcake Dwarf - Summer Bearing
Jewel Black Raspberry- Summer Bearing
Fall Gold - Ever Bearing
Double Gold - Ever Bearing
Heritage - Ever Bearing
Grape Varieties
Concord
Niagara
Fredonia
Valiant
Himrod Seedless
Sovereign Coronation Seedless
Haskap Berries
Aurora Haskap (Can pollinate Borealis)
Borealis Haskap
Tundra Haskap
Blizzard Haskap
Smart Blue Haskap (Pollinator)
Maxie Yezberry (Japanese Haskap)
Solo Yezberry (Japanese Haskap)
Keiko Yezberry (Japanese Haskap)
Blueberry Varieties
Blue Crop
Bonus
Cabernet Splash
Peach Sorbet Dwarf
Pink Icing Dwarf
Silver Dollar Dwarf
Duke
Northcountry
Razz
Superior
Sweetheart
3 in 1 Blueberries
Currant Varieties
Ben Nevis Black
Titania Black
White Pearl White
Red Lake Red
Bramble Fruits
Black Satin Blackberry
Chester Blackberry
Triple Crown Blackberry
Babycakes Dwarf Blackberry
Tayberry
Loganberry
Boysenberry
Other Fruiting Plants
American Hazelnut
Hardy Fig Olympian
Hardy Fig Chicago
Firecracker Goji Berry
York Elderberry
Native Elderberry
Issai Kiwi Vine (self-fertile)
Red Candy Lingonberry
Regent Saskatoon Berry
Northline Saskatoon Berry
Honeywood Saskatoon Berry
Nero Black Chokeberry (Aronia)
Fruiting Weeping Mulberry
Rhubarb
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