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Posts Tagged ‘peaches’
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Yippee! The harvest of SweeTango(R) apples begins todayon our farm in Hart! These are the great new apples you’ve been waiting for! We are pretty excited about them, as you might guess from our home page–three of the six rotating photos feature them! One photo shows an orchard, one shows the top of a tree with apples on it, and one shows Dave enjoying a nice ripe SweeTango(R) apple! Mmm-mmm! The other photos show our fall plums, peaches, and sweet corn, all available & tasty!
Tags: apple, Hart, peaches, plums, ripe, sweet corn, SweeTango(R)
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Peach season is moving right along. We currently have our tree-ripened white-fleshed and yellow-fleshed freestone peaches at the market. The white-fleshed variety has a tropical flavor; it’s both lovely and tasty when combined with blueberries and/or traditional yellow-fleshed peaches. We still have plenty of our own vine-ripened cantaloupe and watermelons, and we currently have local blueberries, but the season will end soon. Our vine-ripened tomatoes are now tasty and looking good! We now have some late-summer apples from our orchards; Zestar! (the father of SweeTango(R)) and Gingergold are now ripe. Look for our SweeTango(R) apples by September 1!
Tags: apples, blueberries, cantaloupe, local, peaches, SweeTango(R), tomatoes, tree-ripened, vine-ripened, watermelons
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
You know it’s getting toward the end of summer when local melons are ripe! The photos of our farm in Oceana County on our homepage include some of our melons (we have both orange-fleshed and green-fleshed melons, sweet and juicy), one of our watermelons (we grow several varieties), a close-up of apples showing the typical freckling of SweeTango(R) apples that are turning red (we hope these will make the grade to earn the name!), one of our young orchards which will produce some SweeTango(R) apples around the first of September (the apples will be nice and red by then!), and two photos of peaches ripening. You may notice the stubs of branches near a couple of the peaches. Summer pruning is done on peaches; branches without fruit (often growing straight up) are removed to prevent them from shading the fruit. Peaches need to see plenty of sunshine to develop their beautiful color and juicy sweet flavor.
Tags: apples, juicy, local, melons, Oceana County, On the Farm, orchards, peaches, ripe, sweet, SweeTango(R), watermelons
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
We’ll have three main-season varieties of sweet and juicy peaches at our market in Hart this week. The guys will start picking them today, and this hot weather will keep them ripening quickly! These are freestone peaches, although we’ve heard that Red Haven are very sticky to the pit this year. We’ll be slicing them so we’ll be able to recommend the easiest one for you to can or freeze. Thanks for enjoying our fruits and vegetables that are fresh from our orchards and fields!
Tags: fresh, Hart, peaches, Red Haven, sweet
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
The photos on our home page were taken July 11. They are of early sweet corn, peaches, apricots, black sweet cherries, tart (Montmorency) cherries, and our tomatoes which are not ripe yet. We are growing all of these right here in Hart!
Tags: apricots, black sweet cherries, Hart, peaches, sweet corn, Tart cherries, tomatoes
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