'Natchez' blackberries ending, 'Apache' blackberries starting

   'Natchez' thornless blackberries have been ripening for 3 weeks now, and many people have come to pick them.  We're getting to the end of the 'Natchez' thornless blackberry season now, but another thornless blackberry variety, 'Apache', is just starting to ripen.  We'll have some thornless blackberries to pick from now until about July 24.

'Apache' thornless blackberries are just stating to ripen.

   'Apache' berries are quite large, but this year many of the berries are borne low on the canes.  Last year's primocanes, which bear this year's berries, didn't grow very tall on this variety due to the historic severe drought of 2022-2023.

  Thornless blackberries are sold pick-your-own only, for $4.83 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.

The Eckert family picked 7 quarts of thornless blackberries this morning. They got some 'Natchez' here, and some 'Apache', and many berries were down low.

   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.

  Our Summer Open Hours run from June 15 until Aug. 31, 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.  If you tell others about us, please let them know the open hours.  Thanks. 

   We'll be closed all day on July 4 this year, since we have a reduced blackberry crop.  We'll be open our regular Summer Open Hours every other day.

   We also still have many harvested, cracked pecans for sale.  Pecans store well for several months in a fridge, and for over 6 years in a freezer.  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 pecan kernels, you get 3 pounds or more of nutmeats.  Each bag costs $19.32 + sales tax.

We still have many cracked pecans in 4-pound bags, which are over 75% pecan kernels and under 25% shell fragments. They store over 6 years in a freezer, so get them while we have them.

   We'll have pecans for sale until late July this year.  Each year, many customers want pecans in late Sept. to early Nov., and we're always sold out by then.  The new pecan crop starts in mid-Nov. 

   Revised projected sales dates for all our crops are shown in the updated sidebar at left under Crop Sales Seasons.  That also tells which crops we sell harvested, and which crops we sell pick-your-own.  Note that we'll have NO peach crop in 2024, due to the March 27 frost.

   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 you want to buy.  Thanks.