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OZARK BEAUTY EVERBEARER STRAWBERRIES - 25 PLANTS
You’ll be feasting on huge crops of these exceptionally tasty berries from early summer until first frost. Produces a huge initial harvest and a steady crop the rest of the season. Plump, juicy fruit is wonderful fresh and fabulous for freezing, so you can enjoy the sweet taste of summer all year. Has excellent flavor, uniform bright red color, notable size. Extremely disease resistant, for dependable yields. Self pollinating. Zones 4-8. No. 1, 1-year plants.  Click here - $20 off at Henry Fields Seed and Nursery!

GARDEN SOLUTIONS® STRAWBERRY FOOD - 2 LB. PACKAGE
For bigger, better berries. Strawberries flourish with this all- natural, high-nitrogen fertilizer. Releases nutrients slowly, as nature intended. Use 1 lb. per 100 sq. ft., twice per season.  Click here - $20 off at Henry Fields Seed and Nursery!

STRAWBERRY HULLER
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Anne: Known for the size, color and super sweet flavor of its berries! We think it’s the best flavored yellow variety available- surpasses even Kiwigold. Ripens late Aug, through Oct. 1- year plants.

Caroline: Produces some of the largest berries of all fall bearing types- far larger than Heritage. Very productive with a strong raspberry flavor. Grows almost anywhere, including the South, where berries ripen as early as June. Tolerant to root rot. 1- year plants.

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Pixwell Gooseberry: Big green berries ripen to pale pink, for tempting pies and preserves. Bears fruit the second year, yields 4-6 quarts a year at maturity. Easy to pick, withstands drought.

Red Lake Currant: The cold-hardiest of quality plum-red currants. Not much of a wait involved--often bears its full-flavored fruit the first year after planting, on 2-year-old wood. Reliably large yields.

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Comments: Excellent berry size, largest of all. Lovely fall foliage. Bright white flowers in the spring. Highest of all in Vitamin C. Excellent pollinator for other elderberries. Can bear as early as the second year. Last to ripen.

The elderberry has been used for myriad medicinal purposes for millennia. The berries and flowers are used in home-made wines. Dried elderberries and their blossoms are used in tea, which reputedly helps to reduce fever and improve digestion. The fruit is high in vitamin C. The flower-tops possess a mild floral flavor and are often used in pancakes, or dipped in batter & fried.

The Joy of Cooking recommends combining the fruit with rhubarb in cooking (it also recommends cooking the flowers with gooseberries).

The American goldfinch, brown thrasher, gray catbird, northern mockingbird, and yellow warbler nest in elderberries (Ortho: 32-33). The berries are eaten by the pileated woodpecker, mockingbird, gray catbird, brown thrasher, American robin, bluebird, thrush, cedar waxwing, northern and orchard orioles, tanager, black-headed and evening grosbeaks. Butterflies visit elderberry flowers for the nectar.