Blackberry Thornless
Everyone has childhood memories of picking blackberries off prickly bushes in the summer heat, but a spray-free wild Blackberry bush is hard to find. We are in love with our Thornless Blackberry, it produces an abundance of blackberries in November to December, and we eat ourselves silly. The fruit is large, 3cm long, and tastes just like the ones of your childhood.
Plant: Autumn/ Spring/ Summer
Harvest: November-December
Prune: Autumn/ Winter to create shape and cut of third year dead canes.
Blueberry High Chill
Blueberries are divided into two categories: “High chill” and “Low chill”. High chill needs cooler winters to thrive; 750-1200 chill hours below 7°c. In our highland/ Canberra climate, we receive around 1200 hours a year below 7°c so your high chill blueberries will enjoy the cooler parts of your garden scape. It pays to know the different micro climates in backyard landscape. When picking your blueberry plants, we suggest picking an early season, mid-season and late season so you are bound to get a bumper crop, whatever our unpredictable climate kicks up.
Plant: Autumn/ Spring
Harvest: Spring, Summer, Autumn. Variety dependent
Blueberry Low Chill
Blueberries are divided into two categories: “High Chill” and “Low Chill”. Low-Chill Blueberries only need around 250-600 hours of chill, under 7°c. These plants are perfect for planting close to your house, at your coast house or in a north-facing position that doesn’t get as much frost. When picking your blueberry plant, we suggest picking an early season, mid-season and late season so you are bound to get a bumper crop, whatever our unpredictable climate kicks up.
Plant: Autumn/ Spring
Harvest: Spring, Summer, Autumn. Variety dependent
Raspberry Christmas
Our Christmas Raspberry is known for its abundance, producing sweet, juicy fruit at the time when you want it most. Raspberries are produced on canes; each year, they put up new canes known as the “first-year cane”. Fruit is produced on the “second-year cane”, and the “third-year cane” dies off, to be cut off in spring. Raspberries are best put into a contained area as they will sucker and creep around your garden, they will handle a spot with full sun. The better you treat them, the sweeter the taste.
Plant: Autumn/ Spring / Summer
Harvest: Summer
Prune: In Spring cut off the third year cane, easily identifiable because they are deadwood.
Raspberry Autumn
Our Autumn Raspberry is a late-season raspberry that produces fruit in Autumn. Each year, your Raspberry plant puts up new canes. The Autumn Raspberry produces fruit on the first- and second-year cane. The third-year cane dies off, to be cut off in spring. Raspberries are best put into a contained area as they will sucker and creep around your garden, they will handle a spot with full sun. The better you treat them, the sweeter the taste.
Plant: Autumn/ Spring / Summer
Harvest: Summer
Prune: In Spring cut off the third year cane, easily identifiable because they are deadwood.
Strasberry
We have been on the hunt for the last few years for a strawberry with flavour, a prolific producer, that reminds you what a strawberry should taste like. Who knew we’d find the Strasberry? Strasberries produce multiple berries on one stalk and unlike strawberries, the Strasberry turns red all over, and you know what that means, Flavour!
It will put out runners from late summer to early autumn, which means just a couple of plants turn into several. During spring, the plant will put out sweet, tasty fruit, and in Autumn it will send out runners.
During the 1950’s the Stasberry almost went extinct with the help of the Beeker Series Breeding program. This little berry is back and tasting as good as ever.
Plant: Spring/ Autumn
Harvest: Spring / Summer
Prune: dispose of third year plants as they will no longer produce fruit.