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Screenshot from October 20 of the Oak Summit Nursery homepage on the last day of the fall plant sale, with a countdown to midnight.Oct 20, 2026 · Field noteour fall sale ends tonight oct 20, I decided to extend the season because it's been warm, on today's date a decade ago I remember the ground freezing while I was installing some underground cable, on the 19th the ground was workable with a shovel and the one very cold night and the next day it was like trying to dig into cement. we are no where near freeze up this year, it seems weeks away. maybe it's the el niño. after we pack up today's orders I can start thinking about storing the rest of our stock for the winter, some things are dormant enough now, the grapes and walnuts dropped their leaves weeks ago after some frost. we had a good season, the nursery is small and we're only setup for mail order, and it's a family business so at peak there's 4-5 of us out there picking out plants, packing and shipping boxes. the rest of the year it's mostly a one person job (work for Doug) where I'll take all the stock counts and pack things into crates and bags and store it all in the root cellar. a few more fall projects, planting part of our new vineyard with bare root grapes, a few dozen orchard trees in an east clearing with solid deer caging, and finish cleaning and storing all of the seeds collected this fall.Read field note +5
Cleaned reddish-brown currant seeds piled on an Oak Summit Nursery seed packet over a dehydrator tray.Oct 19, 2026 · Berries & Currantspink champagne currant seeds, a small batch from fruit collected this summer. currants are easy to grow from seed and size up in the first year enough to plant out by fall, and from seeds like this you'll get a similar plant with some genetic variation. the pink currants are very sweet and have a nice flavour, zero astringency or sourness in the, even though they're the same species as red currants (Ribes rubrum), the red ones have a bright tartness, and the pink and the white ones taste as though they're a different type of fruit. I'm going to grow pink seedlings next spring, and there's enough seeds that I've added a small batch of seed pack to our shop.Read field note +1
Small dark brown Canada gooseberry seeds piled on an Oak Summit Nursery seed packet.Oct 19, 2026 · Berries & Currantscleaning small seeds, these are canada gooseberry. the process for small berry seeds I've found is made easier by mashing them and straining off the pulp, but leaving all the skins and other material in place and drying it in a dehydrator over night at 30-35C, then crush and rub over a screen. there's a good reason for this, berries with small seeds can be hard to separate from the skin when wet, but when crispy dry the skin will crumble to dust leaving just the seeds. if you were just planting these directly, you can skip the drying step. or save a part of your seeds and dry them to save for next year in a fridge.Read field note +3
Pomologica map of generalized hardiness zone bands across Canada and the United States, with cities labelled.Oct 14, 2026 · Field Notei've been working on some maps using public temp and zone data for canada but also to make sense of comparable european and northern russia and china areas. it on pomologica.ca at the bottom under atlas. it tries to pin research stations and major cities and help show what the climate and temp extremes really are, I think about this when I want to grow a sweet cherry bred in Lenningrad known for northern cold hardiness, or a Russian pear from an area that's quite cold - well is that like here or ten degrees warmer in the winter? these temperature band maps try and answer that, and they go along with different winter injury scales, and the systems used by other countriesRead field note +6
jack pine cones on a fallen tree, the cones are easy to collect because they... - Seeds And Stratification, September...Sep 27, 2026 · Seeds & Stratificationjack pine cones on a fallen tree, the cones are easy to collect because they stay firmly attached and closed. it's convenient compared to spruce that will open and disperse their seed in late summer. in either case, a good way to collect conifer cones is a chance fallen tree or a down branch after a storm. a low hanging branch is another, or walking around until you find a squirrel cache. If you're serious about it then a long pole with a hook can be used, since most of the cones are at the top of the tree. it's a good reason to go for a walk in the forest, a pocket full of pine cones and some fresh air. in Japan I've heard you might get a prescription to take walks like this, forest bathing shinrin-yoku, mindful immersion in nature to lower stress and boost wellnessRead field note +3

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The haskap: names, races and how it came to Canada

The haskap is the first fruit of the prairie year, ripe weeks before strawberries, on a bush that showed no winter damage at Saskatoon through 47 below.

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Haskap

Indigo Treat

Indigo Treat is one of three Indigo haskaps from the University of Saskatchewan, sisters to Borealis and Tundra.

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Seed parent account

Pembina

Pembina is a plum bred by N. E. Hansen and introduced from the South Dakota Experiment Station in 1917.

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Gooseberry

Pixwell

Pixwell is a gooseberry bred at the North Dakota Experiment Station and introduced in 1932, a hybrid of the wild gooseberry of the plains with a garden variety.

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