Growing Fruit

In Duluth

Planning–Fruit plot location

• Soil type• Drainage• Sun• Water availability• Slope• Things to avoid

Planning• Kinds of fruit to plant

– Tree Fruit• Apples• Pears• Cherries• Plums

– Small Fruit• Raspberry, • Strawberry• Blueberry• Grapes• Juneberry• Gooseberry/

Currants

• If you plant it, they will come!

Planning

Apples for Duluth

• Early Apples– Mantet– Oriole– Duchess– State Fair– Beacon– Lodi

• Mid season– Chestnut crab– Wealthy– Minjon– Red Baron– Sweet 16– Honeycrisp– Cortland ( in town)– Northwestern Greening

Apples for Duluth

• Late Apples– Most are too late and

freeze in our early falls– Haralson our latest– Others will work in the

city or in a protected microclimate

Pears for Duluth

• Golden Spice• Gourmet• Parker• Summercrisp• Ure• Stacyville

Plums

• Hybrid Plums– South Dakota– Toka– Underwood– Wanetta

• European Plums– Avoid these except– Mt. Royal ( in town)

Cherries for Duluth

• Meteor• North Star• Bali• Mesabi

• Prunus tomentosa– Nanking cherry

• Native cherries– Choke, Pin

Raspberries

• Summer– Latham

– Boyne

– Nordic

– Festival

– Amber ( yellow)

• Fall– Avoid most of

these unless you don’t care about total yield

– Autumn Britten (best)

– Fallgold (yellow)

Blueberries

• Minnesota ½-high– Northblue– Northsky– Chippewa– Polaris– St.Cloud

• Wild – can be transplanted

• Avoid highbush

Strawberries

• June Bearing– Honeoye– Sparkle– Trumpeter– Veestar

• Ever-bearing– Ft. Laramie– Ogallala– Tribute

Seeded Grapes

• Beta (black)• Valiant (black)• Edelweiss (white)• Swenson Red (Red)• Wild grapes

Juneberries

• Honeywood• Northline, • Pembina• Regent• Smokey• Theissen• Wild

Gooseberry

• Pixwell• Poorman• Welcome

Black Currants

• Consort

• Antonina’s

Red Currant

• Red Lake

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