We will be back open tomorrow Tuesday July 18.  Cherry picking will be excellent ( see picture) and raspberry picking will be good to very good.

We will be open Wednesday as well and plan to close Thursday for more berries to ripen.  We may also be closed on Friday – I will post.  Definitely open Saturday and plan for Sunday as well.

Weather looks better on Wednesday than Tuesday, but both days will be hot – come in the morning.

A lot of good fruit was picked today – we will be closed Monday for more berries to ripen – back open Tuesday.

Next week will be prime picking for cherries and will be good to very good for raspberries.

There will be very good raspberry and cherry picking tomorrow (Sunday July 16).  Lots of good folks came out today and got some nice fruit (see picture) , but more berries have ripened and the cherries are plentiful as well.

Weather forecast is for a warm and sunny day – come in the morning for best picking.  Come help us harvest the crop. We will be closed Monday as usual.

We will be back open tomorrow Saturday July 15.  Picking will be very good at the beginning of the day – later, you will have to look under the leaves and on the lower canes.  Not as many berries ripened as one would expect during the two days we were closed, due to the relatively cool weather.

We will open up cherries for picking, but frankly they will be better in a week when they are bigger and riper.  You will notice a white clay  residue on the cherries from a recent spray for SWD (Spotted Wing Drosophila).   The clay residue is harmless, but we recommend washing the fruit before using.

SWD is an Asian fruit fly that arrived in the US a few years ago and threatens many small fruits.  Unlike the apple insect pests we deal with which have 1 or 2 generations per season, the SWD reproduces in a few days so that multiple generations can expand exponentially.

To control this pest, we have to spray for it weekly.  As a pick your own farm, we only use low impact sprays that can be applied within a day of harvest.  We monitor the fruit for SWD and hope to be able to continue to grow raspberries and cherries.  Fortunately, SWD does not attack apples.  Fruit growing has many challenges and we do everything possible to provide safe quality fruit.

We had a lot of good pickers today so we will be closed tomorrow  (Thursday July 13) and Friday (July 14) for more berries to ripen.  Reopen Saturday (July 15).

With two days for berries to ripen, picking should be good on Saturday for raspberries and we will start picking tart cherries on Saturday.

I will post on picking conditions Friday evening.  Come see us!