If you’re a gardener in Montreal, you’ll want to plant seven fruits that are hardy in our northern climate and make for great eating.<\/p>\n
Lollipop crabapples grow 10ft-high and get white flowers in spring. Small yellow fruit appears in the fall.<\/p>\n
One of the three varieties I love is Savignac, a small round easy eating pear named after Brother Armand Savignac, a Joliette priest who got the then un-named cultivar from the Canada Experimental Farm in 1947.<\/p>\n
Yellow, red and black are available.<\/p>\n
The tiny blue berries this plant produces in mid-June aren\u2019t quite as sweet as the woodland bush berries they resemble, but the plant grows easily because it’s so hardy and contains thousands of berries. The Saskatchewan city of the same name was named after the native plant. White flowers cover the plant in the spring, right after Magnolias and Forsythias.<\/p>\n
These red grapes are a hybrid from Alcace and were originally called Kuhlmann 188-2 (one of whose parents was Goldriesling). The grape gets its name from a General who served in the French army during World War I.<\/p>\n
Get some trees from Stefan Sobkowiak, one of Quebec\u2019s permiculture experts and the owner of Miracle Farms in Cazaville if you can.<\/p>\n
Who can deny strawberries. These ground-covering plants are so tasty and easy to grow as long as you move the patch every three or four years. I like the traditional June-bearing variety, because I find the berries taste much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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