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/Curr ants

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