#6 Raspberries
Raspberries produce many small, sweet fruits every summer—for over a month! Come August, it’s critical to prune your berry shrubs to keep the berries coming! See our tips on growing, harvesting, and pruning raspberries.
How to Grow Raspberry Bushes
- Select a spot in full sun with rich, well-drained soil.
- Pick out plants that will grow well in your hardiness zone.
- Improve the soil.
- Plant raspberry bushes 3-4 feet apart and install a post and wire system for support.
- Water raspberry bushes regularly during the summer.
Quick facts
- Raspberry plants need full sun to produce the most fruit.
- Raspberries can be grown successfully in most areas of Minnesota.
- They’re best pollinated by bees.
- Prune annually.
- Raspberries will start producing fruit a year after planting.
- Rabbits love to eat the canes in winter. A chicken wire fence will help prevent rabbit damage.
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#7 Loganberries
What do you get when you cross a raspberry and a blackberry? The best of a both worlds – a loganberry! This fruit is named after the horticulturist James Logan, who accidentally created this hybrid. Loganberries have a slightly elongated shape like a blackberry, but are dark purplish-red, like a raspberry.
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#8 Aronia Berries
One of the increasingly popular berries these days is the Black Aronia Berry. Not only popular because of the health benefits, but as a berry producing plant, there is a strong interest in large scale Aronia berry farms. Also, in the home landscape design, Aronia makes a nice medium to tall shrub, planted as a single ornamental specimen, mixed with other plants, or planted in lines and hedges. The Black Aronia is easy to grow, hardy, and can be planted across most of the country.
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#9 Gooseberries
Gooseberries will thrive in most gardens, but to get the most from them grow them in a bright position in rich, well-drained soil.
The most important condition to get correct with gooseberries is the soil condition, this is more important than the actual position they are planted in. Gooseberries do best in a well drained soil which has lots of natural nutrients. The soil must also retain moisture without becoming water-logged.
If these conditions do not exist naturally in your garden then create them in the area you plan to grow your gooseberry bush(es). Both light soils and very heavy soils will both be greatly improved by the addition of lots of well rotted organic material. Dig this into the soil well before planting.
#10 Wineberries
If you are looking to expand your fruit garden and are looking for something interesting to grow then you may want to consider growing this interesting raspberry-like fruit. The pinkish-orange berries have a sweet and yet tart taste that is ideal for cooking a baking.
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