Amish Gold Slicer
Blemish free, very firm fruits with excellent flavor. Great for fresh eating and canning. Extremely productive.
Amish Paste
An old Amish heirloom that dates back to the turn of the century! Generations have used this tomato in sauces and for canning. Full and rather unusual flavor. Said to taste the best of all paste tomatoes. Tasty, solid flesh used for stews, bottling, drying, and sauces. 8-12 oz. plum shaped fruit. Twice as big as the classic Roma tomato. Great in salsa, ketchup or spaghetti sauce. Excellent for slicing. Bright red.
Apple, Fireside
McIntosh x Longfield. University of Minnesota, 1943. Large, red-striped fruit with a sweet, pleasant flavor. Excellent flavor, good for eating. Good storage life. One of the most popular apples in Minnesota. Resistant to cedar-apple rust. Unsuitable pollinator for Connell Red.
Apple, Haralred®
A Bailey Nurseries introduction, this red selection of Haralson apple was discovered by Louis Lautz, an orchardist from La Crescent, MN. The fruit is redder and earlier than the standard Haralson, yet retains all the good qualities of Haralson: juicy, tart, firm, good keeper, extremely hardy, and fireblight resistant. This is an excellent variety for northern United States and Canada. Unsuitable pollinator for Haralson.
Apple, Haralson
Malinda x Wealthy. University of Minnesota, 1923. Named after Charles Haralson, superintendent of the U of MN Fruit Breeding Farm. A natural, semi-dwarf tree that produces medium-sized red fruit. Hard, crisp, and tart. Good dual purpose apple. One of the most popular apples in Minnesota. Often bears fruit the first year. Prone to biennial bearing. Keeps well, will store until March. Fine hardy, winter variety. Unsuitable pollinator for Haralred®.
Apple, Honeycrisp
Keepsake x unnamed seedling. University of Minnesota, 1991. An exciting apple that is exceptionally crisp and juicy. Flavor is sweet but well-balanced. Excellent storage life, up to 7 months. Has been rated equal to or higher in overall quality than Haralson, Honeygold, or Keepsake in winter storage trials. Ripens in late September in Minnesota and stores like a late season variety. Has become an outstanding commercial and home orchard variety because of its explosive crispness, flavor, and storage life.
Apple, KinderKrisp
Exceptional flavor and crisp texture, much like its parent Honeycrisp, this early ripening variety features much smaller fruit. Perfect size for snacking or kids’ lunches, with a good balance of sweet flavors and a crisp, juicy bite. Outstanding variety for homeowners, flowering early in the season and ripening in late August, the fruit is best fresh from the tree, hanging on for an extended period.
Apple, McIntosh
Fameuse x Detroit Red. Ontario, Canada, 1870. A well-known, older apple that has a sprightly flavor and a medium storage life. Nearly solid, bright red skin. Heavy bearer. Good for eating and baking. Fruit tends to drop when ripe.
Apple, Norland
Rescue x Melba. Saskatchewan, Canada, 1979. One of the earliest summer apples to ripen. Well suited to very cold regions. A natural, semi-dwarf tree that is precocious and productive. Attractive color, small to medium fruit. Good cooking or eating apple. Very hardy. Keeps about 16 weeks in cold storage. Fruit must be picked before full maturity for storage or use.
Apple, Prairie Magic®
Goodland x Mantet. From Manitoba, this apple stands out because of its superior cold hardiness. The flesh is white, crisp, and sweeter than Goodland. Delicious eaten out of hand and may also be used for cooking. Introduced by Jeffries Nurseries Ltd.
Apple, SnowSweet®
Sharon x Connell Red. Another example of the University of Minnesota’s expertise in the development of cold-hardy apple varieties. A cross between Sharon and Connell Red, SnowSweet® has a deliciously sweet, slightly tart taste. Slow to oxidize when exposed to air. Honeycrisp is a good pollinator. Above-average resistance to scab and fireblight.
Apple, State Fair
Mantet x Oriole. University of Minnesota, 1978. Medium-sized, red-striped fruit. Flavor is sprightly tart and good for eating and baking. Good texture, semi-acid to sweet. All-purpose apple. One of the better early apples for northern locations. Short storage life.
Apple, Sweet Sixteen
MN447 x Northern Spy. University of Minnesota, 1978. Medium-sized, red-striped apple with crisp, juicy texture. Excellent sweet, unusual flavor, like cherry candy. Outstanding dessert apple. Fireblight resistant. Can be slow to come into bearing. Good success in Zone 3B.
Apple, Zestar®
State Fair x Minnesota selection. University of Minnesota, 1998. A wonderful new apple cultivar from the University of MN. At last, an early apple that is crisp and juicy! Best known for its excellent sweet-tart flavor. Has a much longer storage life than other early apples. Excellent for fresh eating and cooking. Ripens in late August in Minnesota.
Beefmaster
Beefsteak-type, deep red and good-flavored, this late tomato has important disease resistant qualities. Bears heavily.
Beefsteak
Easy to manage in the garden, the Beefsteak tomato has a uniform shoulder color and consistently good taste. Great slicer!
Beefy Boy
Gigantic size and gigantic taste! A meaty tomato with excellent disease and virus resistance. Deep red, round and smooth, ripening uniformly on the vine. Perfect for salads, sauces, hot dishes, or eaten straight from the vine.
Better Boy
The Better Boy tomato is juicy, crisp and explodes with classic tomato taste.
Big Beef
A very popular all-around hybrid tomato. This tomato is red and meaty. It produces high yield and has large leaves to protect the fruit from sun scald injury.
Big Boy
A Beefmaster type with twice the yields. It bears attractive, extra-large fruit. Disease tolerant.
Big Brandy
Big Brandy adds a new flavor dimension to the rich complexity of its parent crosses Brandywine and Big Dwarf. Richly flavored pink beefsteak-types are great for sandwiches and salads.
Black Krim
Black Krim combines bold, smoky flavor and good texture with an unusual deep brown/red appearance.
Black Prince
This is one of the most popular and favored black tomatoes. The globe shaped fruits are crack resistant with very dark red skin. The tender, juicy fruits have a flesh color that ranges from dark red to chestnut brown. Black Prince, a true Siberian tomato, grows well in cooler climates with a flavor that is deliciously different from other tomatoes.
Blackberry, Bushel and Berry® Baby Cakes®
Baby Cakes® is a dwarf, thornless blackberry perfect for container gardening with its compact habit. Spring and early summer bring bright white flowers. In summer, large, sweet berries present on top of the plant in a fireworks-like spray of fruit. The plant has a somewhat round shape with upright growth reaching 3-4 feet in height. In most regions, this blackberry will produce twice with a mid-summer floricane crop and a mid-fall primocane crop.
Blueberry, Chippewa
Introduced in 1996. Related to St. Cloud with fruit that ripens a week earlier than Northblue. A sweeter berry and more upright in growth habit than Northblue but with yields as high. A good plant for the home gardener with large dark blue fruit and good blueberry flavor. Glossy, dark green leaves turn bright red in the fall. Shown to be a reliable choice for home use in Zone 3, but will produce larger yields in higher zones.
Blueberry, Northblue
Introduced in 1983. Fruit is dark blue, large, and attractive with a good blueberry flavor and a pleasing sugar to acid ratio. Glossy, dark green leaves turn to a deep, bright red in fall. A good plant for the home gardener with winter climates similar to Minneapolis-St. Paul. Makes an ideal shrub for the home landscape. Shown to be a reliable choice for home use in Zone 3, but will produce larger yields in higher zones.
Blueberry, Northcountry
A sibling of Northsky introduced in 1988. Plants larger and more productive than Northsky. Recommended for commercial plantings and home gardens. Fruit 1/2 in diameter with an attractive sky blue color. Flavor sweet and mild. Mature plants 18-24″ high, 30-40″ in diameter. Fruits approximately 5 days earlier than Northblue and extends for 2-3 weeks. Partially self-fruitful. Shown to be a reliable choice for home use in Zone 3, but will produce larger yields in higher zones.
Blueberry, Northland
This cultivar was hybridized to adapt to northern Michigan. Fruit size is small, dark blue, and has a wild berry flavor. Mature plants are 3-4 feet. Northland has limber branches which do not break under heavy snow loads and adapt well to the sub-zero climate. Great for ornamental use. Low stature and spreading growth habit make it an attractive landscape plant. Foliage is beautiful throughout the growing season.
Blueberry, Polaris
Introduced in 1996. A very aromatic, firm berry with excellent flavor. Fruit will store up to 6-8 weeks. Fruit is slightly smaller than Northblue with yields of 80-90% of it. Shown to be a reliable choice for home use in Zone 3, but will produce larger yields in higher zones.
Blueberry, St. Cloud
Introduced in 1990. Plants have a more upright growth habit than Northblue, Northsky, and Northcountry. St. Cloud grows to about 4 feet tall and 3-4 feet in diameter. Mature plants have averaged 7 pounds of fruit over the last 6 years in south-central Minnesota. St. Cloud ripens 4-6 days earlier than Northblue. The fruit size is about 3/4 as large as that of Northblue. Flavor and firmness is superior to Northblue and similar to Northcountry. Shown to be a reliable choice for home use in Zone 3, but will produce larger yields in higher zones.
Blueberry, Superior
Superior is a most productive cultivar with firm berries that are light to medium blue, having flavor that is balanced and pleasant. Superior matures the majority of its fruit about 1 week later than other blueberry varieties.
Brandywine
Brandywine, which dates back to 1885, is the heirloom tomato standard. One taste and you’ll be enchanted by its superb flavor and luscious shade of red-pink. The large fruits grow on unusually upright, potato-leaved plants. The fruits set one or two per cluster and ripen late, but are worth the wait.
Bumble Bee Purple
Slightly elongated little cherries with lime green and bronzy-purple stripes. Crack-resistant fruit is produced all season long on plants that are unfazed by temperature extremes. The flavor is complex but sweet.
Celebrity
Heavy yielding plants are exceptionally strong, bearing clusters of uniform, smooth, round, firm, bright red fruits.
Champion
This is an excellent home garden tomato. It is crack-free and highly productive under a wide range of growing conditions.
Cherokee Purple
Beautiful, deep, dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very-large-sized fruit. Try this one for real tomato flavor!
Cherry, Mesabi
Long-stemmed, red-fleshed fruits with sugar content halfway between pie cherries and Bing cherries. Pyramidal tree grows to a height of 12 feet. Fruit resembles Meteor but pit is smaller. Blooms in early May.
Cranberry Bush, Redwing®
A Chicagoland Grows introduction with excellent form and a good growth rate. Redwing® has something for every season: the new spring foliage is tinted a nice red color, white flowers appear in mid to late May followed by ornamental clusters of persistent bright red fruit from late fall through early winter. The fall color is a stunning brilliant red. Here at the nursery we have been especially impressed with the berry display. A true V. trilobum, not a hybrid as many other cultivars are in the trade.
Early Girl
Extremely early to produce fruit and continues longer than most varieties. Bright red and meaty with a lot of flavor and aroma.
Early Girl Bush
One of the earliest tomatoes available. Yields a prolific crop of globular fruit all summer. Use in salads, sandwiches, hot dishes, soups and sauces.
Fourth of July
The earliness of this tomato makes this the home gardener’s first and best choice for the most excellent early slicing tomato. It is also very delicious, which makes it even more tempting.
Fresh Salsa
Pico de gallo lovers, your tomato is here! You can dice this tomato into tiny cubes that remain perfectly firm and solid yet also sweet. Large, plum-shaped, and dripless, Fresh Salsa is ideal for tasty salsas, bruschettas and light Italian sauces.
Grape, Edelweiss
Developed by the University of Minnesota and released in 1978. This is the most disease-resistant grape we carry. Vigorous. Green-white with high sugar content, good grape taste. Dessert and wine grape.
Grape, Valiant
SDSU. A blue grape, attractive, well-filled clusters average 4″ in length. Very productive, annual bearer. Berries are round, up to 1/2″ in diameter. Free of astringency, skin does not adhere to flesh. Most appropriate for the Dakotas and points further west.
Husky Cherry Red
The same good looks and flavor of an Heirloom only with better yields and earlier maturity. Best in organic, well-drained soil. Water freely in dry weather.
Jet Star
This popular home garden variety has large, firm, meaty fruit with sweet flavor and good disease resistance. Perfect on hamburgers and sandwiches, in salads, hot dishes, soups, sauces for canning, or just eating a plate of fresh, sliced tomatoes. Bite into a taste of summer with this high yielding fresh garden tomato! Low acidity.
Juliet
The wonderfully sweet fruit are crack resistant and remain in good condition on the vine longer than most cherry tomatoes. The fruit are as soft and juicy as cherry tomatoes, and they have a longer shelf life so you can keep them on hand without picking every day.
La Roma III Red
An excellent Roma tomato known for its vigor and uniformity. Bright red, meaty fruits are large and full of flavor.
Large Cherry
Vigorous vines produce loads of deliciously sweet 1-1/2″ round tomatoes borne in clusters. Use in salads, hot dishes, soups and sauces. Try the green fruits as a pickle!
Lemon Boy
A lemon yellow, not golden, tomato variety. Extremely vigorous plants produce large harvests of attractive fruit. Flavor is outstanding–mild and sweet, yet tangy.
Manitoba
Developed in the 1950s for the short growing season of the Canadian prairie in Manitoba. An open pollinated early producer with excellent yield, these non-vining bushy plants produce lots of round, medium size, bright red tomatoes.
Mr. Stripey
This delicious, savory heirloom tomato is generally red with gold stripes emanating in a starburst pattern from the blossom end.
Old German
Generations of gardeners have delighted in the flavorful fruit and unique color of heirloom tomatoes!! Old German is medium-large with yellow and red marbled flesh, fruity flavor and smooth texture.
Patio
Variety maintains a higher sugar content than any other grape tomato, and the sweetness doesn’t fade in late summer. Shiny red, 1″ elongated globes are produced in abundance on vigorous vines.
Pear, Early Gold
An improved seedling of Ure pear selected for its improved vigor, chlorosis resistance, and iron-clad cold hardiness. Abundant white flowers in spring produce yellow fruits on average 10 days earlier than Ure. The foliage is an attractive, glossy green. Use Ure for pollination. Selected by Dr. Wilbert Ronald at Jeffries Nurseries Ltd. in Canada.
Pear, Ure
Fruit is green-yellow, very juicy, and approximately 2 in diameter. Has sturdy branching. Good for eating and canning. Developed in 1978 at Morden Research Station. Approximate ripening date is August 15. Use Golden Spice as pollinator.
Pineapple
This colossal beefsteak type tomato can weigh up to 2 pounds! The color of the ripe fruit will stand out in your garden and in your cooking with beautiful bright yellow and red streaks. Pineapple has a mild flavor, meaty flesh, and relatively few seeds. Slice and eat with just a sprinkling of salt and basil!
Plum, Mount Royal
Blue European Plum. Good eaten off tree. Excellent for dessert, jam, and preserves. Tender, juicy flesh. Considered the best blue cultivar in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Plum, Pembina
Good dessert plum. Yellow flesh, sweet and juicy. Large-size, pointed fruit.
Plum, Toka
Red – South Dakota Experiment Station introduction, 1911. One of the best pollinators. A medium-sized, richly flavored variety with beautiful apricot color.
Raspberry, Boyne
Bears fruit after 1 year. Medium sized berries, is winter hardy, and is great for freezing and jams. Aromatic and sweet flavor.
Raspberry, Latham
Bears fruit after 1 year. Medium to large size berries, great for commercial and home use. Is winter hardy.
Raspberry, Souris
Souris is an improved red, summer-bearing raspberry. Compared to the old standard Boyne, Souris is slightly sweeter, more productive, and has better spider mite resistance.
Red Grape
Red Grapes grow in large bunches of approximately twenty fruits, and the skin is smooth, taut, firm, and glossy, showcasing bright red hues when ripe. Underneath the surface, the pale red-orange flesh is dense with a drier, meaty texture. Red Grape tomatoes are somewhat firm to the touch when ripe and have a crunchy, soft consistency with a high sugar content. The tomatoes have a sweet, tangy, and subtly earthy flavor with rich, savory-sweet notes.