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BERRYFRUIT
Berry fruit has made a come back in recent years and I’m really excited to have discovered that you can grow most of them really well up here in the north. We now have an area of our vege garden dedicated to berry fruits and really enjoy them. You can tell they’re incredibly nutritious and they’re very easy to dry and freeze To do well all of these berry fruits need to be planted into well prepared, free draining, well manured (or fertilised) soil.
Elderberry Grows to 2-3 meters. Fast growing, early producers of large bunches of berries in the warmer areas of NZ. Require high moisture & fertile soil. Flowers for elderflower lemonade or champagne or herb tea. The berries to eat. Excellent jelly, wine & medicinal properties. Chicken & duck food. First to ripen, late Feb. excellent in hedgerows and edges of streams and ponds. Nova (K) Another named variety of elderberry that crops very well in the north having large heavy bunches of berries. Ripe after Adam.
Blueberry: Blue Dawn This is the best cropper in the North, but it must have a pollinator. Blue magic is the pollinator and it will crop too but not as heavily as Blue dawn. Large fruit ripening Dec-Feb. 2x1.5m. Blue Magic Pollinator for Blue Dawn. Excellent quality fruit 2mx1.5. Ripe Dec-Feb. Loganberry Large juicy berries that are ripe around Christmas time through till early February. Need a trellis to be tied to and good free draining well prepared soil for good crops.
Chilean Cranberry Very special tasty little fruit which come on the new growth of these bushes, every garden should have one; the bushes need very good drainage and soil to do well. The bushes are very ornamental and could be made into topiary hedges or a low hedge around the garden etc.
Pouto Blackberry These blackberries do not send out long canes and form impenetrable bramble bushes. They form 1m high bushes which send out thorny suckers which if you have them planted in your home garden are easy to take out. They do really well out in the paddocks with the animals where the sheep an d cows trim them and you still get to pick the fruit which is sweet and good tasting and ripe at Xmas. I Really like these blackberries which have come from the old settlement at Pouto.
Goji Berry Wild Tibetan A scrambling shrub 2mx3m needing a fence for support, easy to grow, needs clipping back each winter with the hedge clippers, producing delicious incredibly nutrient dense berries beginning in the second year. Plants from Henry Harrington’s Berry Collection The following berries are from the amazing garden of Henry Harrington, in Southland. The reason We're offering these plants because they are very special and they need to be planted all over the country as Henry has now retired from gardening. Red Gooseberry – big black late fruit Red Currant – large Gooseberry Green – mid season White Currant Black Currant – late very large Worcesterberry Henry’s favourite berries, he has his espaliered over an entire shed wall and the fruit sits there for weeks after it’s ripe (if covered from birds) delicious, large black berries – they are across between a gooseberry and a currant. Raspberry Everbearing On of the many raspberries we’ve found that does well up in the north. This is a low growing one that doesn’t need wires to hold it up but will form a raspberry patch. Will fruit over several summer months.
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