Grow grapes and enjoy big bunches of beautiful berries! Dormant season planting allows roots to get a head start so the plants can take off during the growing season. Our young grape vines are here as well as blueberries, and cane berries.
GRAPES: Plant in the sunniest spot in your yard to help ripen the fruit and keep the foliage dry. Vines are vigorous and need sturdy support to grow on, and something for the tendrils to twine around. Train them beginning at planting time to encourage one main cane, which with time will become a sturdy trunk. Yearly pruning in January will keep your grapes fruiting for the long term.
TABLE GRAPES (seedless):
- Princess – large, sweet, light green grape. Fruit holds well on the vine and in storage
- Ruby – medium-sized, dark red, firm grape. A vigorous grower and heavy producer
- Black Monukka – medium-sized, black with excellent, crisp, sweet flavor
- Come in to see our additional varieties!
WINE GRAPES:
- Cabernet Sauvignon – excellent producer in our area of small, round, seedy, purple-black grapes.
- Zinfandel – a solid red wine grape related by DNA to the Italian Primitivo.
- Chardonnay – a popular selection for white wine with flavors of plum, apple and pear.
- Merlot – Black berry, used for distinctive red wines.
BLUEBERRIES:
Healthful, beautiful and delicious! Find an afternoon shady corner of your yard to grow a few of our Southern Highbush Blueberries, and enjoy snacking straight from the bush. Or plant a couple of varieties in a large pot or half wine barrel. Either way, blueberries thrive in acid soil. In a pot use, 3/4 E.B. Stone Acid Planting Mix and 1/4 Potting Soil. For in ground planting combine 1/2 E.B. Stone Acid Planting Mix, 1/4 fine or medium orchid bark and 1/4 native soil. All Organic Cottonseed Meal further lowers the pH and adds nutrition. A mix of varieties aids pollination and can increase yields.
- Jewel – one of the leading California varieties yielding lots of high-quality berries
- O’Neal – early ripening with lighter blue fruit; arguably the best flavor of the Southern Highbush
- Reveille – wonderful flavor and a crisp texture on an upright bush that does well in hot climates
Cane Berries:
You know you want some warm from the oven, mixed berry cobbler with vanilla ice cream melting on the top. May we suggest the following varieties.
- Blackberry Marionberry – medium in size and tends to be longer than it is wide with a somewhat tart flavor, fairly earthy with traces of sweetness
- Boysenberry Thornless – really big, reddish purple berries popular for flavor and high June yield
- Canby Raspberry – summer bearing with large bright red berries on thornless canes
- Olallieberry – much requested, and they are here! A hybrid that is about 2/3 blackberry and 1/3 raspberry and 100% delicious.
