Were you happy with your Prairie Tech plants @TheDerek?
Yes they are nice. Some even have berries on them. All are healthy and r doing well.
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Hi Amy - I’m sure you could just call and ask them about the sizes. I wonder if the size might have to do with how recently the variety was received by them. I got both Blizzard and Beauty when first available and received tiny plants. Aurora and Indigo were older releases and larger plants. My CarmJewell, Evans and Juliet also decent sizes, as was stated on their website. All healthy and grew well. Too bad they couldn’t do anything about the massive mouse-vole population we had this winter. Now I have to wait for Aurora and Indigo to regrow before i get to taste them. Sue
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sue. i take 12in sections of 3in pvc pipe. duct tape closed 1 end and put a chunk of block bait rodentcide by tomcat in each one. put a bunch of them out before the snow flies or when the ground freezes around my plants/ trees. we had a lot of voles but i killed them off using this method. i don’t put anything out in summer as i don’t want a animal to eat a poisoned vole.
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I did the same last winter. I drilled holes through PVC pipe and the rodent blocks I got had holes in them so I used copper wire from a 10ga electrical wire to hold the bait in the middle of the tube. Its large enough for rabbits and smaller animals to get to, but too big for my dog to get his head in there. Worked a charm, no vole trails or damage this spring at all!
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I’d rather simply put hardware cloth around plants. I just forgot to do the haskaps. We have a good number of wild predators helping out - owls, hawks, weasels, fox, coyote, wolf - in addition to our domestic cat. So no poisons here. The numbers rise and fall but it evens out. Sue
i also have a lot of those predators but under the snow the voles are protected and invade in droves! the poison evens the score! i also do the hardware cloth as well.
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I have a vole that never leaves my vegetable garden. We tilled it a couple years back and somehow got one with the tiller - yuck.
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they stay in the nearby field in the summer and come in under the snow. in spring you can see their trails in the grass leading into my property. since baiting them i don’t see those trails anymore nor have i found a vole carcass. they must go underground to die.
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I went ahead and ordered Beauty, Beast and Blizzard - as well as Keiko and I got these. The leggy one is Beauty, it had a flower. Kinda tall! 
The one in the pot is Keiko, it was bareroot.
The one in the pot is Keiko, it was bareroot.
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where you get them from Amy?
I got them from HBUSA
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my aurora , arctic raspberries and cherries are from them. great plants.
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I noticed that they are for sale at Jung’s not sure if thats a good price? $17/per.
Floramaxx is about 5.50 each for plugs.
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I got a few hundred aurora from this place last spring.
Organic Aurora #1 Bare Root Cuttings 569262607 100 Cutting $2.60 $260.00
I planted them directly into rows and didnt have great survival with the bare root type, might have done better luck if I had potted them up for the summer and planted in the fall, if I had to do it over thats what I would have done…
Got some from JUNG’s nursery. Online/mailorder.
Restoringeden.co has several varieties. I live local and have gotten every variety they sale….very nice mature plants.
Pictures can be seen here
The one that is a straight stick essentially, Id cut that back to 4 to 6 nodes from the bottom to encourage it to grow more bushy, else youll end up with a unusual shaped plant. Do this when it is dormant and stick the cuttings in the ground, mostly buried but leave one node above ground and you might end up with some free bushes the following year as well.
Appreciate the advice!