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Advice on best: sea berry, honeyberry (haskap), other berries/fruits?

A bit off topic but I know others in the forum grow quite a variety of plants...

I've just planted a wide variety of plants in the orchard this year and already I'm looking forward to planting next spring.  Does anyone have any recommendations for specific cultivars of sea berries or honeyberries?  Or in your estimation are they not worth planting?

I currently grow currants, blackberries, cranberries, lingonberries, raspberries (red and black), blueberries, goji, pawpaws, persimmons, che, figs (of course), jujube, goumi, peaches, plums, pears, apples, cherries, medlar, and pomegranates.

Any suggestions on other tasty fruits and the best cultivars would be much appreciated!

Tim, I grow Juneberries and am getting fruit for the first time this spring.  They are nice looking shrubs and fruit resembles a blueberry with a bit different (but pleasant) flavor.  Unlike blueberries, you don't have to prep the soil to have a low pH.  I recommend trying a couple of these.

Woops!  Forgot to mention that I'm growing juneberries (also called serviceberries I believe).  I believe I'm growing a variety called Autumn Brilliance.  Not sure how it is for fruit, but I plan to train mine to a tree form, kinda like a crape myrtle.  Are there other really tasty varieties of juneberry?

Why don't you see if you can get cloudberries, Scandinavia's best fruit?

Sea berries are great nitrogen fixers and berry producers, but one caution, they sucker very freely and will fill an area in with thorny shrubs, so be prepared to keep them controlled.

Hadn't heard of cloudberries. Maybe I'll try a few next year. Thanks for the tip!

Chinese goose berries are tasty. Saskatoons are good too, reliable and little care needed, I grow Haskah
berries too.

Gooseberry are good, mine are ripeing now

mulberries can be tasty.Ciao,
Giuseppe

Which varieties of gooseberries do y'all grow? I wouldn't know which to get. We have a few wild mulberries on the property that give good berries.

Varieties of Goose berries I have are Hinnomaki Red & Yellow plus Poorman. All productive and good tasting. Wish I could get my hands on Leveller.

Tim,
find Pixie gooseberries, those are the best looking and the best tasting ones I grew, but they tend to drop as soon as they're ripe instead of hanging on the bush. I lost the tree while digging my water line. 
I grow 3 types of currants, two types of gooseberries, 3 types of blackberries, 2 types of raspberries, 5 types of mulberries, alpine strawberries and regular strawberries. All the berries are a nice early summer crop in the garden.

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I'm growing Blue Moon and Blue Velvet Honeyberries. I can tell you that they seem much slower growing than blueberries. Mine  flowered this spring and currently have brries growing. I'm hoping to taste for the first time. Both of those are available at Logee's.

I currently grow opal, svetlana, borealis and tundra haskap, 1st season they didn't grow much but this season they have grown abit and have flowered. Very very hardy

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Here's a pic of my first meager crop this handful and a few more I ate right off the bushes. My bushes are still very small, but at least I do know now that they will produce fruit

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I have a couple 2-yr old goji berry plants that are growing  quickly.
There are 5-main branches that are all 5' tall now that I tied them to a pole.
I want max. berry output  more than appearance. Best approach when pruning?
Should I let it grow wild and end up looking like a weeping willow? Or-
Keep 1-main trunk and prune all others by a half...or something else?
Thanks!

Shah8 - is there a source for cloudberry? I tried to find one a while back but gave up.

Barry - how did the honeyberries taste?


Never got anything but cloudberry jam back in the day.  T'was delicious. 

Wikipedia sez they grow in places like Minnesota and other places in N America...


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Honeyberries were a pleasant blend of tart and sweet, remeniscent of blueberries yet with a taste of their own 

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