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
• MN 71
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