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Selected Fruit Varieties for Minnesota Gardens – Twin Cities and South

By Emily Hoover & James Luby, Department of Horticulture

The fruit cultivars listed here are recommended on the basis of availability and winter hardiness for Minnesota. To improve productivity of apples, pears, apricots, hybrid plums, and cherry plums include at least two cultivars of each fruit in the planting since each cultivar requires pollen from a different cultivar for fruit set. Some hybrid plums do not have viable pollen and cannot be used as a pollen source. European plums, tart cherries, and Nanking cherries are self-fruitful: no pollen source is needed. Small fruits such as gooseberries, currants, raspberries, strawberries, and grapes are usually self-fruitful. Blueberries have increased yield if more than one cultivar is planted.

Apples*
Chestnut crab
Cortland
Fireside  (Connell Red)
Haralson
Honeycrisp
Honeygold
Keepsake
Sweet 16
SnowSweet
Regent
Wealthy
Zestar!
Apples* - Scab Resistant
Freedom
Liberty
Redfree
William’s Pride
Strawberries – Junebearing
Annapolis
Itasca
Jewel
Mesabi
Sable
Winona
Strawberries – Everbearing
Fort Laramie
Ogallala
Tristar
Tribute
Raspberries – Summer
Boyne
Haida
Killarney
Latham
Nova
Brandywine (purple)
Royalty (purple)
Raspberries – Fall
Autumn Bliss
Fallgold
Redwing
Summit
Pears*
Gourmet
Luscious
Parker
Patton
Summercrisp
Ure
Plums – European
Mt. Royal
Plums – Hybrid*
Alderman
LaCrescent
Pipestone
Superior
Underwood
Toka (for pollination)
Apricots*
Moongold
Sungold
Tart Cherries
Mesabi
Meteor
Northstar
Blueberries
Chippewa
Northblue
Northcountry
Northland
Polaris
Grapes – Seedless (need winter protection)
Canadice
Mars
Grapes – Table
Edelweiss (white)
Grapes - White Wine
LaCrescent
Frontenac Gris
Grapes – Red Wine
Foch
Frontenac
St. Croix
Marquette
Red Currants
Red Lake
Denotes varieties developed at the University of Minnesota   *  Needs a second variety for pollination

 

Revised 2007 	WW-00081