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Jahns Prairie Gooseberry vs Giants Heart Haskap (Honeyberry)

Ribes oxyacanthoides Jahns Prairie

Lonicera caerulea Giants Heart

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Jahns Prairie Gooseberry
Giants Heart Haskap (Honeyberry)

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry produces large, delicious red fruit.

Found in the Red Deer River valley by Dr. Otto Jahn in 1984. This cultivar was found to resist insects and disease, tolerate frost, and produce high quality fruit.

The Giants Heart Haskap is a late-ripening shrub that blooms with small white flowers and produces large, firm blue berries that are ready for harvest in late July. Their taste is typically described as something between a raspberry and a blueberry.

The Giants Heart Haskap, or Giants Heart Honeyberry is suitable for commercial growth as it is high yielding with sweet berries, cold-hardy and a vigorous grower.

Giants Heart is a late pollinating variety. Pair with other late pollinators to have a higher yield.
Kawaii is a great companion variety.

Jahns Prairie Gooseberry Quick Facts

Giants Heart Haskap (Honeyberry) Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 2a
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 0.9 m (3 ft)
Spread: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: any
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: medium
Life span: short
Life span: medium
Suckering: none
Suckering: none
Maintenance: medium


Fall colour: yellow
Berries: red-pink berries
Flavor: very sweet
Harvest: mid to late July
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: giants heart honeyberry