Oak Summit Nursery

Oak Summit Nursery Mail order nursery growing cold hardy fruit trees, berry bushes and native plants with a full seed shop for the Canadian prairies. Located in Brandon Manitoba
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if you haven't tried this, a baking sheet, tomatoes in half, olive oil, seasoning like salt, pepper, rosemary. balsamic ...
10/23/2026

if you haven't tried this, a baking sheet, tomatoes in half, olive oil, seasoning like salt, pepper, rosemary. balsamic can be good. bake for an hour or two at 300-350 and they reduce and caramelize

10/21/2026

this lot get very friendly when you have horse cookies. I've had them for over twenty years, going twenty five I guess.

our fall sale ends tonight oct 20, I decided to extend the season because it's been warm, on today's date a decade ago I...
10/20/2026

our fall sale ends tonight oct 20, I decided to extend the season because it's been warm, on today's date a decade ago I remember the ground freezing while I was installing some underground cable, on the 19th the ground was walkable with a shovel and the one very cold night and the next day it was like trying to dig into cement. we are no where near freeze up this year, it seems weeks away. maybe it's the el niño. after we pack up today's orders I can start thinking about storing the rest of our stock for the winter, some things are dormant enough now, the grapes and walnuts dropped their leaves weeks ago after some frost. we had a good season, the nursery is small and we're only setup for mail order, and it's a family business so at peak there's 4-5 of us out there picking out planting, packing and shipping boxes. the rest of the year it's mostly a one person job (work for Doug) where I'll take all the stock counts and pack things into crates and bags and store it all in the root cellar. a few more fall projects, planting part of our new vineyard with bare root grapes, a few dozen orchard trees in an east clearing with solid deer caging, and finish cleaning and storing all of the seeds collected this fall.

viginia creeper holding onto their attractive blue fruit on the red panicle, the branching structure. I collect these ...
10/19/2026

viginia creeper holding onto their attractive blue fruit on the red panicle, the branching structure. I collect these for seed so just a field note for me, I planted these two years ago along our deer fence. interesting fact, the first time I saw pagoda dogwood I made a double take because it has the same fruit structure just upside down. totally unrelated plant (last photo)

northern white cedar after two growing seasons from seed. conifers are all slow, at least in the early years. when you s...
10/19/2026

northern white cedar after two growing seasons from seed. conifers are all slow, at least in the early years. when you start them from seed, just plan on a couple of years to get them large enough to plant out. plug trays work if you keep them watered every day when it's hot out, and also if you're diligent about covering them up over the winter. easier in larger pots or in a garden bed.

pink ch*****ne currant seeds, a small batch from fruit collected this summer. currants are easy to grow from seed and s...
10/19/2026

pink ch*****ne currant seeds, a small batch from fruit collected this summer. currants are easy to grow from seed and size up in the first year enough to plant out by fall, and from seeds like this you'll get a similar plant with some genetic variation. the pink currants are very sweet and have a nice flavour, zero astringency or sourness in the, even though they're the same species as red currants (Ribes rubrum), the red ones have a bright tartness, and the pink and the white ones taste as though they're a different type of fruit. I'm going to grow pink seedlings next spring, and there's enough seeds that I've added a small batch of seed pack to our shop.

cleaning small seeds, these are canada gooseberry. the process for small berry seeds I've found is made easier by mashin...
10/19/2026

cleaning small seeds, these are canada gooseberry. the process for small berry seeds I've found is made easier by mashing them and straining off the pulp, but leaving all the skins and other material in place and drying it in a dehydrator over night at 30-35C, then crush and rub over a screen. there's a good reason for this, berries with small seeds can be hard to separate from the skin when wet, but when crispy dry the skin will crumble to dust leaving just the seeds. if you were just planting these directly, you can skip the drying step. or save a part of your seeds and dry them to save for next year in a fridge.

bristly sarsaparilla collected on a hike in august. a cool extra tall relative to the wild sarsaparilla that grows aroun...
10/18/2026

bristly sarsaparilla collected on a hike in august. a cool extra tall relative to the wild sarsaparilla that grows around our nursery.

native currants and gooseberries showing fall color in a way that the cultivar black and red currants don't, these speci...
10/14/2026

native currants and gooseberries showing fall color in a way that the cultivar black and red currants don't, these species are vigorous growing and well adapted for our climate and just good looking plants that should be in more landscapes

there are a few scales that places used to rate cold hardiness or winter injured, 1 to 5 is used in a few ways. I've put...
10/14/2026

there are a few scales that places used to rate cold hardiness or winter injured, 1 to 5 is used in a few ways. I've put together a page to explain it as a reference, so when you hear this cherry got a 4.5 or this pear was a 2, and if you wonder what that means, there's a reference to make sense of it. https://pomologica.ca/scales

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