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When The Berries Will Be Ready to Pick
Ripening will vary from year to year depending on the weather.
Please call us for up-to-date picking conditions on 802-767-3989 where once the season opens, we will leave a fresh recorded message every day.
We had thought the raspberries might arrive earlier this year, but on July 4th as I update this bulletin, July 9 or 10 still looks like the earliest likely date. The weekend of July 12-13 should be safe to say the Reveille raspberries will be there for the picking. We have had plenty of rain (!) but we need more heat to bring them on any faster....Rob
The approximate dates that berries should be ripe are:
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July 8 approx.
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Raspberries ripen first. We have the following varieties:
Reveille (yes they come up first!), Kilarney, Nova and Taylor (Taylors swell up last, around the last week of July and go a week or so into August).
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July 28 approx.
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Blueberries arrive. We will have Patriots up first, quickly followed by Blue Crop & Blue Ray varieties, and finally our Jersey blueberries will ripen around mid-August and will last until mid-September.
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Labor Day
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Blackberries ripen around the Labor Day holiday as long as we get sufficient rain for them to swell up.
Cherries. Once again, in 2008 our cherries produced some fruit which failed to ripen. Conditions in VT are tough for cherries.
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