[NAFEX] aronia

jelie at new.rr.com jelie at new.rr.com
Wed Aug 25 12:33:38 EDT 2010


Hey All,

My Aronia have been loving all the rain and heat from this summer.  The branches are weighted down with fruit, more so than I have seen in the past 7 years. The chokeberries' taste is outside the realm of typically used fruit but, the wife and I have made jam/jelly in the past and it was quite good.  We were surprised how comparable it was to those products made with grapes.  Still, it would be nice to have a few more options with the fruit.
I really like my chokeberries.  They are native, hardy, very reliable, and insect resistant in my climate. I have Viking, Nero, A. prunifolia, a Raintree Nursery selection, and a few wild selections.  We do have a few bunnies in our area but they have yet to really do much damage to the Aronia.  It could be a matter of placement in my yard, tucked away in a corner and along a fence.  Then again, it could be all the other items on the menu that are drawing them off.  Anyway, I really need to get out there and harvest but the mosquitoes are mean and nasty.

Jim Elie
Green Bay, WI
zone 4/5


---- Michele Stanton <6ducks at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Does anyone harvest Aronia berries?  
> 
> Yesterday I harvested a few handfuls of fruit from Aronia melanocarpa
> 'Autumn Magic', although frankly it's dry and a little bit astringent.
> 
> What are anyone else's experiences with this plant and its fruit?
> 
> One other note: this plant is a rabbit magnet.  The only way I can keep
> rabbits from
> 
> Keeping it 'pruned' is to keep it netted J
> 
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> 
> Michele in SW Ohio
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