Get ready for great tasting Currants with a twist…different color and different flavor!! ‘Pink Champagne’ is a cross between White Currant and Red Currant that yields a fruit that is white with a distinct pink blush. To go along with the different color, ‘Pink Champagne’s’ taste will also surprise you with a luscious sweetness that makes it great for fresh eating. While not as tart as Red Currant, ‘Pink Champagne’ is still a surefire winner when it comes to preserves, jams and jellies just like the rest of this family. Even better, this selection is the perfect home edible garden plant with its dense, full form, its very low maintenance nature, and its extremely high yields for such a compact plant. You’ll be picking ‘Pink Champagne’ by the containerful once this plant gets established!

Talk about hot, this cross between the American Gooseberry and the European Black Currant has produced one of the most written about fruits of the last few years and one that is so easy to grow in the backyard garden. This vigorous, easy to grow shrubby plant can produce up to 10 to 12 pounds of deep purple, nearly black berries on a mautre plant. These prolific berries are tart and sweet at the same time and loaded with Vitamin C and antioxidants. Jostaberry can be used fresh, baked, juiced or in preserves…they are so versatile and so great tasting its amazing more people aren’t growing them!

Talk about hot, this cross between the American Gooseberry and the European Black Currant has produced one of the most written about fruits of the last few years and one that is so easy to grow in the backyard garden. This vigorous, easy to grow shrubby plant can produce up to 10 to 12 pounds of deep purple, nearly black berries on a mautre plant. These prolific berries are tart and sweet at the same time and loaded with Vitamin C and antioxidants. Jostaberry can be used fresh, baked, juiced or in preserves…they are so versatile and so great tasting its amazing more people aren’t growing them!

Red Lake’ is appealing not only for its fruit but for its compact, mounding habit and glossy green foliage that makes a stand out ornamental shrub. This selection produces long, pendulous clusters of greenish-yellow flowers that bloom in late April and early May. Flowers give way to long, pendant clusters of bright red Currants, which ripen in July. ‘Red Lake’, although tart, may be eaten ripe off the shrub, but are perhaps more often harvested to make jams, jellies and pies. Currants are very high in vitamin C and cancer preventative antioxidants. Birds of all kinds love the berries and they will fight you for the ripe fruit if the plant is not covered for protection. No serious insect or disease problems plague this easy care plant but good airflow is important to combat the troublesome powdery mildew. ‘Red Lake’ is not a host for White Pine blister rust.

Rhubarb lovers will love this productive selection that heavily produces loads of red stalks that are perfect for creating the ultimate rhubarb pie. Unlike other selections, ‘McDonald’ seems to be the best suited for resisting the stress of summer’s heat in our region.

You want things you can count on in your garden and Crunchy King is one of them! Consistently churning out perfectly round, perfectly blemish free roots that will resist pithiness while making any fresh salad sing with color and bite!

This Aussie created selection arrived on US shores in 1959 and has been a backyard fruiting favorite ever since. It’s easy to see why with its great fruit size, taste and versatility. This big, deep red skinned Pear matures starting in late August and continuing into late September producing a fruit that is very sweet and juicy with a white flesh that delivers a bit of grittiness that adds to the eating experience without being bothersome. ‘Red Bartlett’ is very productive and very easy to store for later use in baking projects and is one of the ideal Pears for canning. ‘Red Bartlett’ can be pollinated by any other non-Asian Pear

One of the best Pears for the home garden, ‘Moonglow’ is so easy to grow with its disease-resistant nature. On top of that, it also is one of the best producers in the backyard orchard delivering basket upon basket of medium to large sized, dull yellow brushed pink fruit that features the least gritty white flesh of any Pear with a sweet, juicy taste that makes it ideal for fresh eating or canning. ‘Moonglow’ fruit matures from mid-August to mid-September and can be pollinated by any other non-Asian Pear. Dwarf, compact form.

Semi-dwarf. The deep skin color of this mid- to late-season pear makes it great for salads and desserts. Also keeps well in storage. Superb flavor.

Semi-dwarf. This vigorous grower is also a vigorous producer with an exceptional crop of large, russeted fruit maturing in early October. ‘Bosc’s’ tender flesh and smooth texture is perfect for fresh eating while also being well suited for canning and preserves.