Other Berries 2012 

Crandall Black Currant – Clusters of large black currants with sweet tart flavor this is excellent for jams, juice, and syrup.  Crandall Black Currants have 5 times the vitamin C of oranges.  Bush is upright, dark green leaves, very productive.  Ripens In mid July.  Zone 2-8

Primus White Currant – Compact bush bearing long fruit clusters.  Heavy producer, and the sweetest fruit of all currants.  Zone 3-8

Red Lake Red Currant – Large, dark red beries on medium to large compact clusters.  Excellent for jelly, preserves, and muffins.  Strong and vigorous upright bush that will grow 4-6 ft. tall and 2-5 ft. wide.  Used for the fruits and as ornamentals as well.  Good for bird forage and hedge plantings.  Red Lake is one of the most widely grown red currants.  Ripens in July.  Zone 2-8

Jostaberry – A cross between a black currant and a gooseberry.  It has the vigorous growth habit and the disease resistance of the black currant.  The leaves are gooseberry like and the fruit, until ripe, looks like a gooseberry.  In late June the fruit ripens and the elongated fruit turns black.  The flavor is sweet like a gooseberry with a hint of black currant.  Resistant to both powdery mildew and white pine blister rust.  It should be pruned like a gooseberry.  Hardy to -35 F.  Zone 3-8

Captivator Gooseberry – Captivator is a hybrid of European and American species.  It has the large tear drop shaped fruit.  The plant is semi-thornless, turning yellow in Fall.  This is a sweet berry, colored pink to red when fully ripe.  Ripens in late July.  Captivator is mildew resistant and very cold hardy having originated in Canada.  Zone 2-8. 

Thornless Boysenbery – Very large, sweet, juicy, full-bodied flavor.  Good for fresh eating, freezing, jams, preserves, pastries, juice, syrup, and wine.  Ripens during May and June.  Thornless forms of all blackberries should not be cultivated deeply as damaged feeder roots will send up an occasional sticky sucker that has to be removed.  Hardy in zones 5-9

Tayberry – Tayberry was bred from a cross between the blackberry Aurora, a high quality variety bred in Oregon, and an improved Tetraploid Raspberry.  It is ready for picking from early July through mid August.  Long, moderately vigorous canes.  Berries are large, long conical shape and a reddish purple color with excellent, slightly aromatic flavor.  Excellent quality for freezing, canning, jams, and jellies.  An excellent home gardener and fresh market fruit.  Zone 5-8

Triple Crown Blackberry – This is the newest thornless blackberry, and is rated equal to and better than Marion berry in color, flavor and overall quality This blackberry is named for its three crowning attributes: flavor – productivity – vigor.  The Triple Crown Blackberry ripens from about July 10 to about August 10. This blackberry variety yield large, glossy black fruits that are pleasantly firm and have the capacity to produce larger berries than any other variety we have seen.  A must for the  backyard gardens.  It should help ensure a steady mid-summer supply of big, flavorful berries.  In Oregon trials, 8-year-old Triple Crown Blackberry plants yielded an impressive 30 pounds or more of blackberries per plant.  It is suitable for fresh eating, juice, pies, syrup, preserves, and freezing. .  Zone 5-8