Berries & Perinials

August 30th, 2009
Our berry plants and grape vines are going into the ground during the late 2009 season. With the exception of a handful of berries shared with kith and kin, they will not produce fruit for a couple of years. Although this doesn’t give you the opportunity to immediately enjoy the taste of our efforts here on the farm, it will give you the opportunity to watch them grow as we document each stage. Come learn with us and hopefully celebrate our success.

Blackberry Varieties

Arapaho - The earliest maturing, erect, thornless blackberry
Chester – Mid August
Triple Crown -

Blueberry Varieties

Duke – Early Season
Blue Jay – Early Mid Season
Blue Crop – Mid Season
Blue Gold – Mid Late Season
Elliott – Late Season

Grape Varieties
Coming soon…

Raspberry Varieties

Black Raspberry - Summer

Heritage (red) Raspberry – Fall Bearing/ Primocane

Strawberry Varieties
Tri-Star Strawberry / Tristar Strawberry – June through October

One of Mother Nature’s miracles.  Although most references state the Tri-Star Strawberry was developed by the US Department of Agriculture and / or the University of Maryland, it was actually created by Mother Nature herself.  Originally discovered outside of Salt Lake City, Utah this natural hybrid was propagated and made available to the public by the USDA (perhaps at the University of Maryland).

The Tri-Star strawberry plant is unlike any other strawberry plant in that they are completely day neutral.  Outdoors, they produce fruit during each of the three seasons.  If brought indoors or otherwise kept warm, they will continue to produce throughout winter.  Typically, here in Kentucky they will produce fruit June through October.  Even the so called “Everbearing” strawberry plants stop producing fruit except during the short and cool days of spring and fall.  The Tri-Star continues right through the high temperatures (up to 95 deg.) of summer.

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