{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping","title":"Saskatoon Berries: Tough as Nails (as this Zone 2 Grower Explains)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2267,"description":"Wondering about fruit to grow in a cold climate?\nToday we head to Alberta, to find out how to grow saskatoon bushes. Arden Delidais grows in Zone 2—and doesn’t get any winter dieback on her saskatoon berries.\nDelidais’ orchard and winery, DNA Gardens, has a number of cold hardy crops including saskatoon berries, apples, plums, rhubarb, currants, and haskaps.\nSaskatoon bushes (Amelanchier alnifolia) are native to North America. (South of the border you might hear them referred to as juneberry or shadbush.)\nDelidais tells Steve and Donna about:\nHow to prune saskatoon bushes\nSaskatoon varieties\nSaskatoon pests and diseases\nHow to propagate saskatoon berries\nHow to use saskatoon fruit\nIf you’re looking for more on saskatoons, here’s a guide to growing them. \n\n-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. We’re making the world a better place one garden at a time!\n-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.\n\n-->And say hi—we love to hear what you think!","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_y3e1k24nMlKLGYUZdhBsMgezF6u9k_5w92OUmAhniI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMTFk/NDg3ODQxNjE2MGM1/ZWMwNGVhOTgyZTY1/NmZhOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}