Thornless Blackberries are Ripening

   Thornless blackberries have started ripening, and will continue ripening until about Aug. 1.  These are large berries, on plants with NO thorns or chiggers, and very easy and fast to pick.  This summer will be our 26th and final year of offering pick-your-own thornless blackberries for sale, so if you want to pick them here, come this year.

A few thornless blackberries are ripe now, and many branches are still blooming, so more will ripen all June & July. 

   We'll start letting customers pick blackberries on Fri. June 5, when we're still open by appointment.  If you want to pick early blackberries, from June 5 to 14, call 620-597-2450 a day or two ahead and make an appointment.  Leave a message on our answering machine saying what day and time you'll come, during the times of our Summer Open Hours.

   Our Summer Open Hours start June 15 and run until Aug. 15 this year, as shown in the sidebar at left.  In summer, we're open Mon. to Sat. 7:30 a.m.to 12 noon and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Sundays 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. only.  We're closed Sun. mornings for church services (as we are year-round), and closed from 12 noon to 7 p.m. each day in summer due to high heat. 

   Thornless blackberries are sold pick-your-own only, for $4.93 per quart + sales tax.  We provide quart containers, and have customers fill them level-full.  You'll bring the berries home in the quarts, set on cardboard trays, and we appreciate it if you bring us back the empty quarts and cardboard trays on your next visit to Reid Orchards.

   We still have many harvested 'Enterprise' and 'Gold Rush' apples for sale.  In early afternoons when it's too hot to work outside, I sort and clean apples out of the bins we picked them in last fall, and pack them into 20-pound trays for sale.  We'll have harvested apples for sale until about late July 2026.

'Gold Rush' apples have gotten very sweet after 6 months of cold storage.  I eat one every day with my lunch.

   Harvested apples sell for $1.48 per pound + sales tax for #1 fruit with no damage.  I sort and pack apples into bags in boxes that I weigh to 20 pounds, so if you get a 20-pound box of #1 apples you save $1.00.  We also have some nice #2 fruit, with some surface scarring but no internal damage, that sells for just $1.18 per pound + sales tax.

   We still have some harvested, cracked pecans for sale, selections from my husband Bill's pecan breeding program.  All these pecans have large nuts, thin shells and great taste, and I give taste samples.  We sell cracked pecans in 4-pound bags, which are over 75% pecan kernels and under 25% shell fragments.  Each bag has the equivalent of 6 pounds of in-shell pecans, and when you pick out the kernels, you get 3 pounds or more of nutmeats.  Each bag costs $19.70 + sales tax.   

   As always, we take cash or checks for payment, but NO credit cards or debit cards, and no "apps".  We don't use a smart phone, and have no phone line to the sales building.  So please bring your checkbook or enough cash to cover the amount of fruit and/or pecans you want to buy.  Thanks.