1. Growing Fruit In Duluth

2. Planning –Fruit plot location Soil type Drainage Sun Water availability Slope Things to avoid

3. Planning Kinds of fruit to plant –Tree Fruit Apples Pears Cherries Plums –Small Fruit Raspberry, Strawberry Blueberry Grapes Juneberry Gooseberry/Curr ants

4. If you plant it, they will come! Planning

5. 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

6. 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

7. Pears for Duluth Golden Spice Gourmet Parker Summercrisp Ure Stacyville

8. Plums Hybrid Plums –South Dakota –Toka –Underwood –Wanetta European Plums –Avoid these except –Mt. Royal ( in town)

9. Cherries for Duluth Meteor North Star Bali Mesabi Prunus tomentosa –Nanking cherry Native cherries –Choke, Pin

10. 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)

11. Blueberries Minnesota ½-high –Northblue –Northsky –Chippewa –Polaris –St.Cloud Wild – can be transplanted Avoid highbush

12. Strawberries June Bearing –Honeoye –Sparkle –Trumpeter –Veestar Ever-bearing –Ft. Laramie –Ogallala –Tribute

13. Seeded Grapes Beta (black) Valiant (black) Edelweiss (white) Swenson Red (Red) Wild grapes

14. Juneberries Honeywood Northline, Pembina Regent Smokey Theissen Wild

15. Gooseberry Pixwell Poorman Welcome

16. Black Currants Consort Antonina’s

17. Red Currant Red Lake MN 71