Garden Plant: Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry Honeysuckle
Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry Honeysuckle
Product Description: Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry Honeysuckle
Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry Honeysuckle’s Healthy Superfruit
- Delicious Blueberry-like Fruit
- Extremely Cold Hardy
- Easy to Grow
- Deer Resistant
- Great for Baking
Do you love gardening and growing your own food but feel like You’ve tried it all? Sure strawberries and apples are great but they’re also so regular and have that “been grown before” feeling. If You’re looking for a new and exciting fruit to grow than you have to check out Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea \’Dolce Vita’)!
In the spring, this deciduous shrub is covered with lightly fragrant white honeysuckle flowers. While many honeysuckle berries aren’t very appetizing, the Blue Sweetberry’s fruit is absolutely delectable! Looking like an elongated blueberry, You’ll want a whole crate to munch on come harvest time!
Blue Sweetberries taste like a cross between raspberries and blueberries but they are easier to grow than both! Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry Honeysuckles were specially selected from the Czech Republic for its delicious fruit and extreme hardiness. This amazing bush can withstand temperatures dipping to as cold as -50°F! Now that’s a resilient plant!
While this Sweetberry Honeysuckle bush is self-fruitful, you can increase the harvest size immensely by planting another kind of honeysuckle nearby for cross-pollination. You’ll be happy you did come summertime harvest and You’ve got enough to snack on, freeze for winter, and a few leftovers so your curious neighbors can have a taste!
Growing a Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry Honeysuckle is just about as easy as it gets! Simply plant in a sunny spot of your yard in soil that is well-drained and watch as the bush thrives! Sweetberry bushes fruit on old wood, so once your plant has been in the ground for at least three years and You’d like to prune, make sure to do so immediately after harvest. Fruiting on old wood also means You’ll want to look deep within the plant during the first few harvests so you don’t miss a single berry!
If you find yourself with a few extra sweetberries once You’re done munching, try making a compote! Many have enjoyed spooning the jam over ice cream, drizzled over yogurt and oatmeal, or even spread atop pancakes and waffles!
Blue Sweetberries are a garden superfruit you won’t want to miss out on. With its many health properties, endless baking potential, and overall easy to grow nature, it’ll be the hit of the neighborhood. Order a Sugar Mountain Blue Sweetberry Honeysuckle today!