Saskatoons

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Saskatoon - Bare-Root Plants

Amelanchier spp. 4-6' x same. Compact shrub with sweet purple-magenta berries. Great for pies, cobblers, jellies, jams, smoothies and cakes. Z2. read more
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Saskatoon - Bare-Root Plants

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Amelanchier spp. 9-12' × 6' Beaverlodge, Alberta, 1952.

Large mildly sweet berries with high sugar-to-acid ratio. Fast growing and high yielding,

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Saskatoons Amelanchier spp.

Also called Juneberry, Parsonberry, Serviceberry, Shadblow, Shadbush and Shad. Purplish-black sweet berries great for pies, cobblers, jellies, jams, smoothies and cakes. Berries are about the size of a lowbush blueberry, or a bit larger, and seedier. Fruit ripens in mid-July in central Maine.

We’ve always admired our native Amelanchiers in the wilds of Maine where they grow along stream edges and rocky slopes. Beautiful fragrant 5-petaled white flowers are early harbingers of spring in Maine. Nice red-orange fall foliage. Recently we’re learning more about saskatoons farmed commercially for fruit in Canada, much like how we grow highbush blueberries. In Canada there are saskatoon festivals, and even a baseball team called the Saskatoon Berries!


Growing Saskatoons

  • Soil: Moist well-drained soil; will tolerate clay.
  • Sun: Full.
  • Pollination: Self-fruitful, but plant more than one variety for better yields.
  • Spacing: 5' apart.