A Guide to Growing Grapes, Raspberries & Strawberries

Baco Noir

Discovered by French grape breeder François Baco, it is known for producing a dark, rich, and robust red wine that is medium bodied with a fresh acidity.

Pinot Noir

One of the most ancient varieties of grapes. Slightly spicy with cherry & strawberry tones, it is commonly made into red, rose, white & sparkling wine.

Concord

If you love grape juice, then you love Concords! The fruit makes a tasty table grape, full-bodied juice or your own house wine, jellies, pies, or candies.

Seyval Blanc

Relatively new, in terms of grapes, it is a hybrid grape that does very well in colder climates. This white grape is slightly acidic & holds a lot of citrus flavours.

Frontenac

A newer wine grape that is gaining popularity. It produces an abundance of large deep purple aromatic fruit in fall. Excellent for making red wine.

Sovereign Coronation

This Canadian grape is a blue, sweet seedless grape. The berries ripen in mid-September & are great for eating fresh, baking or making juices.

Himrod

Grown for its clusters of small, entirely seedless, crispy sweet, early season fruit that turns golden yellow when fully ripe in summer. Excellent for fresh eating.

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Mulberry

A unique, graceful, weeping accent tree with long pendulous branches and shiny, dark green leaves. There is a good chance you have seen one in your neighborhood. Edible berries are produced in late June. Useful as a main focal point specimen plant. Good for screening & is an eye catching, talking piece in the landscape. The fruit is sweet and succulent. They can be made into desserts, jams, or jellies, although it is so addictive eaten fresh it might be hard to pick enough for those goodies before eating them all.

Boyne

Upright, self-fruitful, thorny shrub with clusters of white rose-like flowers give way to medium sized, sweet, flavourful, deep red raspberries in early summer.

Heritage

A favourite for its flavor, firmness and large fruit size. A small shrub with bright berries of luscious flavor and heavy yields of juicy, sweet, dark red fruits.

Fall Gold

Brighten your edible garden with large, gold heart-shaped berries. An everbearing compact bush that produces 2 crops of sweet, juicy, golden berries.

Meeker

An outstanding thimble-shaped variety perfect for the home garden. Bears abundant crops of large, sweet, richly flavored berries. Great for multiple uses.

Everbearing

This berry can produce two to three harvests of fruit intermittently during the spring, summer and fall. Enjoy a medium sized, bright red, sweet fruit.

Seascape

A heat-tolerant variety produces large, flavourful fruit. Conical, bright red fruit, inside & out. This superbly flavored berry is great for container growing.

Galore® White

Ornamental & Edible, this everbearing strawberry bears medium sized, wild berry flavoured fruit that can be harvested beginning in mid summer.

Veestar

An early variety with very good hardiness and productivity. A flavourful, firm strawberry with bright red colour is ready for picking in early summer.