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  • From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: Non-apple inquiry
  • Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:03:12 -0000


>Northblue: 20-30 inches, large size berry
>Northcountry: 18-24 inches, medium size berry
>Northsky: 10-18 inches, small berry size
>All of them are great, although Northsky, Nothland, and Northblue
>have it
>over Northcountry for flavor.
>It is difficult to sell the Northsky and Northland unless you give
>out
>taste tests. They are fairly easy to sell to premium bakeries,
>delis,
>and specialty restaurants though.

I've grown Northcountry, Northsky, and Northblue (Here in zone 6 I
was looking for smaller plants as in was being used in an edible
landscape by an ornamental pond.) The berries are delicious but
*very* small (think of the average berry being 2/3 of the small
berries in a pint of Jersey blue berries). Although I know that all
the flavor of a blueberry is in the skin (and thus the larger the
berry the less flavor) in a large planting - unless you have a
specialty market where you can get a higher price - I would think the
picking would be very tedious for the return. And note Kevin's
height listings - their growth patterns are not alike (each other).

When I moved and planted a new blue berry patch I planted all
highbush this time.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6


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