Description: 'Solanum Melanocerasum' Garden huckleberry or wonderberry (Solanum melanocerasum syn S. nigrum guineense) is not related to true huckleberries' woody plants in the heath family. Instead, it is an herbaceous annual in the nightshade family related to tomatoes peppers tobacco eggplant and potato. An unusual crop for gardeners to try garden huckleberry bears small jet-black berries that are cooked and sweetened and often combined with other fruits such as apples lemons and grapes to make jellies preserves and pies. Garden huckleberry plants resemble pepper plants bushy and erect up to two feet tall. Flowers appearing in clusters in July are small and white. Each plant will bear hundreds of ½ - ¾ -inch berries ripening from green to deep black. One plant should produce enough berries for a single pie. Culture of garden huckleberry is similar to tomato culture: start plants indoors in early April covering the seeds with ¼ inch of soil. Germination should take one to two weeks. Transplant to a sunny location outdoors when all danger of frost is past, and the weather has settled in late May or early June. Allow two feet between plants. *The fruits are not edible until fully ripe and cooked. They are toxic if eaten unripe and the raw fruit is quite bitter. The berries are ready to harvest about two weeks after they first turn black when their skin has changed from shiny to dull and the flesh is very soft. *Your order will be shipped in the next 1-2 business days. *We ship with USPS First Class Envelope. *Delivery might take between 5-10 business days. * NO TRACKING PROVIDED.
Price: 2.59 USD
Location: Lindstrom, Minnesota
End Time: 2023-11-06T00:57:53.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Personalize: No
Type: seeds
Occasion: Garden
Signed: No
Theme: Garden
Year Manufactured: 2023
Time Period Manufactured: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Postage Condition: Unposted
Subject: Huckleberry
