Field Reports

Midnight Jewel is a thornless blackberry from Stark Bro’s that fruits twice a year – a heavy summer crop off last year’s canes starting in July, then a second push from this year’s brand-new growth that runs until frost. Berries bigger than your thumb tip, noticeably sweeter than wild canes, no gloves required, from roughly early July into November once established.

Egyptian walking onions (Allium x proliferum) are a perennial onion that grows its next generation on top of the stalk – clip the topsets and eat them, or let them flop over and replant themselves. Hardy in zones 3-10, they deliver greens, topsets, and bulbs from a single planting, year after year, with almost no…