Darin Engh from Engh Gardens picks some of his favorite (and often overlooked) plants that will look great in your yard, and even better, on your dinner table.
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Your garden can have beauty as well as food in the landscape. Include trees, shrubs, and plants that produce fruit and berries. Sweet, juicy, and delicious berries-everyone’s favorite fruit-can be grown in your own backyard. Berries are packed with vitamins and antioxidants, berries are exceptionally good for you.
Heirloom Fruit Trees: Quite simply, these varieties have withstood the test of time. Many, despite breeder’s best efforts, are still the best tasting varieties on the market. Not always available in the store as they might not ship well for the commercial growers, these varieties are some of the best homegrown fruit available.
GoldenDeliciousApple
Granny Smith Apple
Gravenstein Apple
McIntosh Apple
Blenheim Apricot
Moorpark Apricot
Royal Apricot
Bing Cherry
Montmorency Cherry
ElbertaPeach
Bartlett Pear
BeurreD’AnjouPear
Comice Pear
Kieffer Pear
Seckel Pear
Santa Rosa Plum
Satsuma Plum
Featured plants:
Wilder Currants
Very large red berries on long well filled stems. Improved strain. Very attractive long lived plant with dense foliage and yellowish flowers in drooping clusters. Plants 3-5 feet high and as wide. Very hardy and productive, mildew resistant. Prefers rather cool, humid, shady areas. Excellent for jellies. Hardy to Zone 3. Ripens: Early to Late July- long bearing time ideal for the home gardener.
Himrod Grapes
Vigorous deciduous vine with bold-textured deep green foliage. Grown for its clusters of small, firm, crisp, greenish-white seedless berries. Excellent flavor. Ripens very early. Fast-growing vine to 20-25 feet each year.
Granny Smith Apple (1868)
EZ-Pick McIntosh Double Red Apple (1796)
Self-fertile. Uses: fresh, cooking, drying, applesauce, jams, and jellies
Elberta Semi-Dwarf Peach
Self-fertile. Uses: fresh, cooking, drying, canning, jams, and jellies.
Satsuma Semi-Dwarf Plum (1899)
Pollinizer Required. Uses: fresh, cooking, drying, jams and jellies, and ice cream
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For more information, contact:
Engh Gardens
www.enghgardens.com
8214 south 700 east
Sandy
(801) 748-0102
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