2009 Fall Fruit Tree and Shrub Sale
To increase Berea’s resilience and the strength of its local food system, Sustainable Berea and the students of the Transition Small Seminar, GSTR 410C are offering a limited number of dwarf fruit trees, shrubs and berries for sale.
Fruit trees ($18 each) and gooseberries ($14 each) are in one-gallon pots. Raspberries ($6 each) are 4.5” pots. We have only small numbers of each variety, so order early. To check availability and place an order, call 985-1689.
Plants can be picked up Saturday, November 14, 9am to 4pm at the Old Town Visitors Center, 201 N. Broadway. Planting and care sheets will be provided.
Fruit tree expert Derek Law will be available from 11am-2pm to answer questions about tree planting and care.
Apples:
Are all grafted on fully dwarfing rootstock Budovowski-9, which grows a tree 6-8’ tall.
- Redfree: Summer. An outstanding disease resistant apple from the PRI breeding program.
- Freedom: Huge summer apple with good shiny red color! Another PRI disease-resistant release.
- Liberty: Fall/Winter. Touted as the most disease-resistant of the PRI line of apples, flavor similar like a more sprightly and crisp McIntosh. A decent keeper in good storage
- Arkansas Black: Fall/Winter. The heirloom apple most often noted for its disease resistance and outstanding keeping abilities. Late season apple, fruits are dark red and very hard at picking.
Sour (Pie) Cherries:
- Northstar: A natural dwarf, reaching only 8-10’ at maturity. Very disease-resistant hardy tree that is covered with white blossoms in spring. These are followed by copious amounts of good-sized pie cherries that are a bright red color.
- Montmorency: A well-known and time-tested variety which is still grown commercially. Fruit very similar to Northstar, but tree grows larger and is more vigorous.
Pears:
Several varieties. All grafted on Old Home x Farmingdale 333 rootstock, which can be maintained at 14’ tall.
Gooseberries:
These varieties are very productive and very sweet when ripe, and have not shown powdery-mildew on their foliage. Bushes are thorny and reach 5’x5’ if left unpruned. Pruning can easily keep them 3’x3’.
- Red Oblong: Likely the variety ‘Hinnomaki Red‘, though not known for sure. Trouble-free plant, fruit hangs well under thorny canes so harvest is easier than some gooseberries. Prolific bearer of oblong, quarter-sized fruits. Flavor has been compared to plums.
- Pink Round: Likely ‘Poorman’ or ’Pixwell’ but also not known for sure. As with ‘Red Oblong’, fruit hangs well under the canes. Slightly more prolific bearing, fruits are round, only slightly smaller than ‘Red Oblong’ and stay a bright pink color when ripe.
Raspberries:
- Caroline Everbearing: Large, conic, well-flavored, red raspberry. More disease resistant and with larger, earlier fruits than most everbearers. Ripens August til frost at the Virginia nursery, but responds to warmer temperatures and ripens earlier farther south.
- Heritage: Will crop early summer and again in the fall if only the dead shoots are selectively pruned out every winter. Disease-resistant, and berries are less prone to molds than some other red raspberries. Fills in the row very quickly—plant every 2’ and you’ll have a thick hedge in 2 years!
Care Sheets
2 Comments
Jeanne Hoch
November 4th, 2009
Barbara Wade
November 5th, 2009
I would like a Northstar Cherry and three heritage raspberries
I would like three pots of the Caroline Everbearing.
Thanks.