Garden Huckleberry (Solanum melanocerasum)

Mature huckleberries are black and soft most often used sweetened and cooked in pastries and preserves, Huckleberries are nutrient-dense and sometimes cultivated for their medicinal properties. Sweetened and cooked huckleberries have a lucious blackberry-like flavor. Bushy plants, approximately 3 tall. Eat fully ripe, cooked berries only; garden huckleberries may be toxic if eaten unripe and raw.

• 35 seeds minimum
• Germination: 7-14 days
• Maturity: 75-80 days from transplant
• Start seeds indoors 6 weeks before last frost. Plant deep in seed-starting mix. Transplant when all danger of frost. Has passed and soil has warmed. Harden off seedlings before planting.
• Space plants 24 apart in rows 36 apart.