'Triple Crown', our latest-ripening thornless blackberry variety, still has a
large amount of ripe fruit now. It will
continue ripening for the next week or so, and the plants will be heavy
with fruit through this Sat. Aug. 5 and into next week. 'Triple Crown' blackberries are large,
have the smallest seeds and
are the juiciest, so they're especially good for making jams and
jellies.
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| We still have many 'Triple Crown' thornless blackberries to pick, now and for the next week or so. |
Thornless blackberries are sold pick-your-own
only. They cost $2.55 per quart
+ tax, pick-your-own. There are NO chiggers, and you can pick a
quart of blackberries in 5 minutes. We provide containers, and just ask that
you return the containers to us for reuse on your next trip to Brenda's
Berries.
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| Cindy Branton took this photo of her 3 girls, each holding a quart of 'Triple Crown' thornless blackberries that they picked Tuesday morning. |
Our peach season is finishing up now, since this year it started almost 3
weeks earlier than the average start date for peaches. We're still
harvesting
'Carolina Gold' yellow peaches, and
will have some of these for sale through this Sat. Aug.
5. We've now finished harvesting
'China Pearl' white peaches, and these have sold. Peach prices are detailed in the previous post (scroll down).
A few 'Reveille' red raspberries are also ripening now.
This is our main June-bearing red raspberry variety, and it sets a smaller fall crop each year. Since the June crop started on May 22 this year, the fall crop is starting a couple weeks early, in early Aug. More red raspberries ripen each day, so those who come to
pick blackberries can often also pick a few pints of raspberries if you ask about them. Pick-your-own raspberries cost
$2.08 per pint + tax.
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| The fall crop of 'Reveille' red raspberries are also ripening now. |
We're still open our summer hours (see sidebar at left) through Aug. 31. We
open at 7:30 a.m. Mon.-Sat. for berry pickers, but those who want only
peaches should arrive after 9 a.m. to give our workers time to pick the
peaches. We're closed from 12 noon to 7:00 p.m. We're open 7-9 p.m. each
evening, but call 620-597-2450 in the afternoon to be sure we'll have
peaches that evening.
