🌱Doc's Pantry Garden Almanac

The Garden Almanac

Hardy fruit that shrugs off a prairie winter.

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Haskap / Honeyberry (Lonicera caerulea)

The first fruit of the year — and it shrugs off -45 °C

Full sun to part shade Zone 1-8 (bred at U of Saskatchewan for extreme cold)

Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum)

Plant once, harvest for decades — but only the stalks

Full sun to light shade Zone 2-8 (loves cold; needs winter dormancy)

Saskatoon Berry (Amelanchier alnifolia)

The prairie's own blueberry-almond berry

Full sun for best fruit Zone 2-7 (fully prairie-hardy)

Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)

Runners that carpet a bed in a single season

Full sun Zone 3-10 (choose hardy June-bearers for prairie)

Plant identification here is educational — never eat, forage, or medicate with a wild plant on the basis of a website alone. Many edible plants have toxic look-alikes. When in doubt, grow from known seed, or confirm with an expert before you harvest.