Small Fruit in the Home Garden

Authors: Diane Relf, Extension Specialist, Horticulture, Virginia Tech and Jerry Williams, Associate Professor, Horticulture, Virginia Tech

Publication Number 426-840, posted August 2000

Table 2. Some Suggested Varieties for the Home Small Fruit Planting (listed in order of ripening).

BLUEBERRIES (Highbush)
1 Earliblue
1 Blueray
Bluecrop
Jersey
2 Berkeley
Coville
Elliott

BLUEBERRIES (Rabbiteye)

Climax
Premier
Powderblue
Tifblue

BLACKBERRIES (Erect)

Darrow
Cherokee
Cheyenne
Comanche
Shawnee
Navaho

BLACKBERRIES (Semi-erect)

Black Satin (thornless)
Dirksen (thornless)

BLACKBERRIES (Trailing)

(Dewberry and Boysenberry)
Lucretia
Lavaca

RASPBERRIES (Red)

Latham
Heritage (everbearing)

RASPBERRIES (Black)

New Logan
Bristol
Cumberland
Titan

RASPBERRIES (Purple)

Brandywine
Royalty

CURRANTS

Wilder
Red Lake
  GOOSEBERRIES
Pixwell
Red Jacket

STRAWBERRIES (Regular)

Earliglow
Sunrise
Delmarvel
Honeoye
Surecrop
Redchief
Allstar
Delite
Lateglow

STRAWBERRIES (Ever-bearing)

Ozark Beauty

STRAWBERRIES (Day-neutral)

Tribute
Tristar

GRAPES (American bunch)

Seneca (white, seeded)
Himrod (white,seedless)
Mars (blue, seedless)
Delaware (red, seeded)
2 Concord (blue seeded)
Steuban (blue, seeded)
Niagra (white, seeded)

GRAPES (hybrid, for wine)

Vidal blanc (white)
Chardonel (white)
Traminette (white)
Chambourcin (black)

GRAPES (Vinifera)

Chardonnay (white)
Cabernet Franc (black)

GRAPES (Muscadine)

Scuppernong
3 Carlos
3 Magnolia

1 Recommended for Eastern Virginia only.
2 Not recommended for Eastern Virginia.
3 Perfect flowered. Scuppernong is female flowered and requires pollinizers.


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