I commissioned a remake of our website early in July. I thought it would be ready for Cherries, but it is still not operating. So I will have to get out the word on apple shipping the old way…in the blog. We will start shipping McIntosh apples next week Sept 16. To protect the apples […]
Today (Mon 9/9/13) I picked and ate my first McIntosh of the season. It was tart and the flesh had a green tint to it but I think we are ready to start picking the Macs. We will open the McIntosh for apple U-pick tomorrow for those who want a tart Mac, and I expect […]
We start apples every year with Paula Reds, Sanza, and now our first crop of Zestar. (oh I had 2 1/2 bushel of Lodi too)These are summer apples that do not store well and they taste great. We try to only grow enough to get us to the fall varieties which keep well and deliver […]
I have been remiss in getting out the information but here goes. We have had a fantastic tart cherry year. All of our mature blocks had bountiful crops and quality remained very good throughout. We had made arrangements to have almost all of our Montmorency cherries made into Tart cherry juice concentrate. We shipped cherries […]
Apricots, Raspberries, and Sour cherries are still being u-picked. The Montmorencies (sours, or tarts) will be done before next weekend. The apricots should last through the weekend, and raspberries are just rolling in every day till the frost comes. We will start Nectarines tomorrow. They are big and beautiful but still firm. Peaches will start […]
It has been a very good sweet cherry season but it is winding down. As the Northern Michigan residents can attest, it has been raining a lot. The sweet cherries would have more splits after each rain. We had almost two inches early this week and we are throwing in the towel. We have only […]
U-pickers continue to find plenty of Black sweet cherries. The cracks from 2 weeks ago have shriveled and the good cherries have grown so sorting them is not too hard. I expect that we will have blacks sweet cherries available through Thursday at least and maybe into the weekend. It depends on how many u-pickers […]
The u-pickers have started picking the Montmorency tart cherries and they look good. The tart cherry pitter is running smoothly so when a u-pick customer picks a large lot of cherries they can get them pitted and into bags with the juice for freezing. We won’t be machine harvesting the Monts for another 4-5 […]
Well the rains that came early in the week were wonderful for most of the crops but they have a big negative side effect on the sweet cherries. When sweet cherries are getting ripe the sugar in them draws in water. The rain is absorbed through the roots but the cherry itself will draw in […]
