Zone 3 Fruit for Winter Storage

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Apple and pear trees whose fruit keeps, and that can take a zone 3 winter. Pick them in fall and eat them into winter. Everything is listed A to Z, and the plants rated only to 3b, the warmer half of the zone (-35°F to -30°F), have a 3b tag on them.

More About Zone 3 Fruit for Winter Storage

Russets like Golden Russet and Ashmead's Kernel, late apples like Arkansas Black and Black Oxford, and pears like Cold Snap all keep for months in a cold root cellar or fridge.

On this page: Arkansas Black Apple, Ashmead's Kernel Apple, Black Oxford Apple, Blue Pearmain Apple, Cold Snap Pear, Colorado Orange Apple, Cox Orange Pippin Apple, Dana Hovey Pear, Empire Apple, Golden Russet Apple, Goodland Apple, Haralson Apple, Hidden Rose Apple, Honeycrisp Apple, Kerr Applecrab, Liberty Apple, MN 1628 Apple, Malinda Apple, Norda Apple, Northwest Greening Apple, Nova Pear, Prairie Sensation Apple, Prairie Spy Apple, Red Sparkle Apple, Reinette Simirenko Apple, Sandow Apple, September Ruby Apple, Spartan Apple, Spokane Beauty Apple, Taylor Apple Pear and Triumph Apple.

Questions We Get

What does zone 3 mean on your scale?

On our MFTC scale, zone 3 means the coldest night you should plan for (the 1-in-30-year low) falls between -40°F and -30°F. Zone 3a runs -40°F to -35°F and zone 3b runs -35°F to -30°F. That is colder than a USDA zone 3, which is built on the average yearly low, so run your address through our cold hardiness calculator instead of going off a USDA map.