The Key to Preventing Moldy Berries

(From the AMGA Gardener Loop) Berries are delicious, but they’re also delicate. Raspberries in particular seem like they can mold before you even get them home from the market. There’s…

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MARKETS FOR WILD BLUEBERRIES

…product preferences and whether or not they, picked their own berries. Most urban Alaskans shop for fresh berries at Alaskan supermarket chains (66%). Twenty percent purchased berries at national supermarket…

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Editor's note — Lingonberries

Every bit of the lowbush cranberry (lingonberry) that is produced in Scandinavia – many, many tons – is harvested from the wild. Seeds may be extracted by placing whole berries

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Featured Fruit — Blueberries

Blueberry –Vaccinium spp. Related to azaleas and rhododendrons, blueberries need a highly organic, cool, moist, well drained soil with a pH between 4.5 and 5.5. Tiny, urn shaped white or…

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Nursery Tour

…LOADED with clumps of black berries, flavored much like Bob Boyer’s service berries, in my opinion. (Zone 3)   Seaberry trees (Hippophae rhamnoides) were coated with orange fruit, mostly along…

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Honeyberry Facts

…of fruit in its third year and up to 8 pounds by its sixth year 3 oz. of fresh berries provides 50-70 mg of vitamin C The berries are also…

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Orchard Report – Edmonton – 2001

…pests attacking the berries of those that managed to survive.   Other soft fruits came through the winter unscratched. Bumper crops of saskatoons, currants (black, red, white and Albol), gooseberries,

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MAY MEETING FEATURES JAMES AND RILEY

…the growing of asparagus and Julie Riley’s discussion of raspberries and strawberries. Herb obtained unnamed Canadian varieties of asparagus, which have done well for him near the corner of Northern…

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Recipes – Spring 2002

Homemade Fruit Juice from Jackson Gardens   Pick berries when ripe and freeze. Later, thaw berries in a strainer to remove juice naturally, without killing the healthy enzymes in them….

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From the President

…for 2 winters – Dead Blueberries-Even Northland blueberries freeze back to the snowline. I got about a dozen berries 2 years ago. Grapes-I have wasted more time and money trying…

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SEED EXCHANGE RUSSIA/ALASKA

…do not have access to commercial producers of seeds, fruit trees, berries, or herbs as we do. Gardeners must raise the crop and then save the seeds which carry the…

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MORE ON LONICERA

While doing graduate work at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, I remember the Lonicera caerulea variety edulis. What I remember about it is eating the berries. I enjoyed the taste…

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Haskap Arrives in North America

From the Home Orchard Society www.homeorchardsociety.org Dr. Maxine Thompson Haskap berries are native to Hokkaido, the northern Island of Japan. Historically, wild-growing plants provided one of the few fruits available…

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Orchard Report

…put on new growth (no flowers/fruit) and I’ve been keeping up on the neem oil for the worms, so I have hope for next year. Some Canby Thornless raspberries seemed…

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Featured Fruit – Nagoonberry

…them with raspberries or strawberries in this recipe for trail cookies.   Nagoonberry Hardtack (Taken from the Alaska Wildberry Guide and Cookbook.) 4 cups nagoonberries 1 cup shredded coconut 1…

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Lingonberry Cultivation

…remaining good berry stands will also be wiped out. The German growers showed some incredible pictures of acres of lingonberries in production. The plants are grown in single-plant rows about…

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From the Editor’s Garden

…And does anyone have a good way to manage gooseberries? Mine seem to want to flop over onto the ground, and then the stems end up breaking off at ground…

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Meeting Program Slides & Videos

The Growing of Gooseberries in Alaska presented by Gary Masog 2018 March Presentation Notes – Hinchey talk Lammers Orchard Video Growing Raspberries Video presented by Rusty Foreaker Jan 10, 2019…

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Featured Recipes 2006

…place two-piece lid, then process in hot water bath for 10 mins. (from Putting Foods By: 4th Addition)   Applesauce Tea Bread Submitted by Dan Elliot from Fruits and Berries

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Red Raspberry

Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus   “Boyne” Raspberry Native to North America, red raspberries grow from perennial roots. The tall, thorny canes are brownish red and woody, reach full size the…

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Featured Fruit — Cranberry

…150 species of cranberry in the world. The United States produces 98% of the world’s cranberries. Cranberries have been used culinarily and medicinally since befor the Europeans came to America….

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Featured Fruit — Gooseberry

GOOSEBERRY Ribes spp. Saxifragaceae   Gooseberries are shrubs which grow best in cool climates with cold winters. American gooseberries have weeping stems and will root themselves where they touch the…

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Featured Fruit: Strawberry

…fleshy and juicy. Strawberries are generally self fruitful. There are three classifications of strawberries based on when they flower and produce fruit. June bearers start making flower buds in the…

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1998 ORCHARD REPORTS

…and I harvested over 28 quarts of service berries. I didn’t get as many raspberries this year. I bought a “Fall Red” plant this year. I liked them real well….

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FRUIT TREE THOUGHTS

…and gold raspberries, picked first crop Aug. 2; as of Oct 6, still no frost and still picking fruit. Green berries still on canes. Black and red currants, picked 5…

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GARDEN AND FRUIT GROWING REPORT

…to Island Lake: Latham raspberries. Quinalt strawberries, Pixwell gooseberries, Red Lake currants, Swedish Black currants, Saskatoon berry, rhubarb, mint chives, and a Dolgo crab tree. These were all proven hardy…

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Blueberry Recipes

…mL 1/2 C chopped nutmeats 120 mL 1 pkg (1 lb 4 oz) white cake mix 562 g 1 C frozen blueberries, thawed or fresh blueberries 360 mL Combine brown…

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BACK FROM SIBERIA

…brief flowering period. Berries edible, red, to 3/8, 6 to 23 per bunch. Male and female flowers on separate plants, both must be present for fruiting. Hardiest variety of the…

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WILD CHOKECHERRIES TAMED

…in Colorado was troubled by the undependable supply of wild berries, so he formed the Chokecherry Growers Assoc, and asked Colorado State University to conduct research.   Two acres have…

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1988-89 WINTER HARDINESS REPORT: Purvis

…fruits and berries survive extreme cold, specifically during the three weeks from approximately January 15 to February 6, 1989.   The 63-year-oid sweet cherry tree in Homer, owned by Fred…

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