Many Thornless Blackberries & Some Peaches Ripe Now

   Many 'Apache' thornless blackberries are ripening now, and there will be many for customers to pick over the next 2 weeks, until about July 26.  Some 'Natchez' thornless blackberries are also still ripening.  Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings are great days to come pick thornless blackberries, as the fewest customers come to pick on those days.  Many come on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, so we sometimes get picked out by late morning on those days.

Many 'Apache' thornless blackberries are ripe now until about July 26.

   These are nice large berries, and there are NO thorns or chiggers.  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.

   Some customers bring plastic or cardboard trays, or metal cookie sheets with sides, to set their quarts on, which we also appreciate.  Do NOT bring bowls to dump the berries into, as that could bruise them, and we want the berries to stay in the quarts they're picked into until you get them home and use them.

   We finished harvesting 'Souveneirs' peaches on Sat. July 12, and sold the rest of that variety last evening.  This morning, Mon. July 14, we started harvesting a few of our next peach variety, 'Intrepid'.  All our peach varieties are yellow freestone peaches, and more peaches will keep ripening until about Aug. 20.  Each variety ripens over a 10 to 14 day period, so we have a succession of peach varieties ripening over a total of 8 weeks.

We harvested a few boxes of 'Intrepid' peaches this morning & will harvest more over the next 2 weeks. This is my favorite peach variety for flavor.

   We harvest all the ripe peaches each day, and mainly sell them in 10-pound boxes.  Harvested peaches sell for $1.58 per pound + sales tax for #1 fruit with no damage.  We also pick some nice #2 fruit that sells for $1.28 per pound + sales tax.

   We still have many cracked pecans for sale now too.  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.

   In summer, as shown in the sidebar at left, 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.

   Updated projected sales dates for all our crops are shown in the sidebar at left under Crop Sales Seasons.  That also tells which crops we sell harvested, and which crops we sell pick-your-own.

   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 produce you want to buy.  Thanks.