H: cm Zone: 3 Delectable flavour, with large spears and a high yield. Jerusalem Artichoke

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1 ASPARAGUS Guelph Millennium Jersey Giant Purple Passion H: cm Zone: 2 Expect high yield of purpletipped green spears from a late season crop that may extend into June. Delectable flavour, with large spears and a high yield. H: W: Zone: 3 Produces attractive purple spears which have a mild, nutty flavour and are reputedly sweeter than most other asparagus varieties. Helianthus Tuberosus Jerusalem Artichoke H: W: Zone: 3 Type of sunflower that has knobby edible tubers which are produced under ground. It has an artichoke Rheum Rhabarbarum Rhubarb Large, heart-shaped, crinkled leaves with red stems. The stems are used like fruit in pies and sauces. like taste.

2 RIBES Currants nigrum Wellington nigrum Magnus hirtellum Pixwell Black Currant Wellington a Regarded as the most popular black currant variety. Has excellent sweet and juicy fruit. Best if planted with other currants. Black Current Magnus Gooseberry Pixwell H: cm Zone: 4a H: cm Zone: 4 Deep purple, juicy berries and large, soft green fragrant leaves. Best if planted with other currants. Dense, nearly thornless bush with glossy leaves. Strong producer of pinky-green berries that make good pies and jellies. Self-fertile. Rubrum Red Lake Red Currant H: cm Zone: 3 Compact, mounding, deciduous shrub. Clusters of greenish-yellow flowers bloom in spring. Flowers turn to clusters of bright red berries. Self-fertile. x Culverwelli Jostaberry H: cm Zone: 4a Cross between a gooseberry and a black currant. Clusters of sweet, tangy, dark purple berries. Self-fertile.

3 RUBUS BLACKBERRY Fruticosus Chester H: cm Zone: 5 Semi-erect, thornless blackberry. Clusters of pinkish-white flowers turn into firm blackberries. FALL GOLD Raspberry idaeus Anne A rare, exciting self-fertile gold raspberry that is deliciously sweet. Produces two crops a season. HERITAGE RED Raspberry idaeus Heritage H: cm Zone: 4 The classic Heritage is the best fall crop selection. Produces berries in the summer and the fall. JEWEL BLACK Raspberry idaeus Jewel H: cm Zone: 3 The blue-black fruits are large and sweet. NOVA RED Raspberry idaeus Nova H: cm Zone: 4 Berries are firm, bight-red, medium to large size. ROYALTY PURPLE Raspberry idaeus Royalty H: cm Zone: 4a Produces large fruit with distinctive, sweet flavour. MARIONBERRY L. Subgenus Rubus H: cm Zone: 6 Sweet, tart berries with complex flavour. Plant has a trailing growth habit. LOGANBERRY BOYSENBERRY TAYBERRY Loganobaccus H: cm Zone: 6a Tayberry H: cm Zone: 6a Large dark red berries on a trailing stem. Cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. Boysenberry H: cm Zone: 5a Unique fruit bush which is a cross between the loganberry and the blackberry plant.

4 STRAWBERRY Veestar Strawberry H: 10 25cm Zone: 3 This variety produces an early yield of medium red berries with good flavour in late spring. June bearing variety. Fragaria Veestar Everbearing Strawberry H: cm Zone: 4 Everbearing strawberry plants produce fruit throughout an entire growing season. Beginning in spring, with intermittent crops throughout the summer and early fall. Fragaria Everbearing

5 VACCINIUM-BLUBERRY Bluberries require two different cultivars to fruit reliably. Need acidic soil to grow. Chippewa Chippewa Blueberry A half high blueberry cultivator meaning it has excellent winter hardiness. Small white flowers in the spring turn into medium sized blueberries that are sweet and light corymbosum Bluecrop Bluecrop Blueberry H: cm Zone: 5 Produces light blue berries which ripen in mid-season. Dark green leaves turn attractive shades of red in the fall. Blue Ray Blue Ray Blueberry H: cm Zone: 5 Dainty, waxed, bell-shaped white flowers appear in May. Flowers are followed by medium sized blueberries that ripen in midseason. Northblue Northblue Blueberry a Midseason producer of large, darkblue blueberries. Green foliage turns to red in the fall. corymbosum Northland Northland Blueberry White flowers in May turn into medium sized, medium blue, sweet blueberries that ripen in early midseason. Pink Lemonade Pink Lemonade Blueberry H: W: Zone: 4 Pinkish-white flowers form into pale green berries that slowly turn pale pink and when fully ripe turn bright pink.

6 VITIS GRAPES Baco Noir Baco Noir Grape H: 2-4m as trained Zone: 4 Vigorous grower that produces tight cylindrical clusters of small red berries. Great for making juice. labrusca Concord Concord Grape H: 2-4m as trained Zone: 5 Fragrant, greenish flowers in spring are followed by clusters of blue-black, seeded grapes. Best juicing grape. Frontenac Frontenac Grape H: 96 W: 72 Zone: 4a A newer wine grape which is becoming popular. Produces an abundance of large fruit in the fall. Excellent for red wine or juice. Himrod Himrod Grape Vanessa Vanessa Grape H: 2-4m as trained Zone: 5 H: 2-4m as trained Zone: 4 Fragrant greenish-white flowers Produces loose clusters of well form into clusters of seedless white filled firm oval medium sized grapes. Good for fresh eating or seedless deep red grapes. Good drying as raisins. Seedless for eating fresh or making preserves.