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After a few cold, rainy days, the start dates are starting to look similar to last year.  HMC should have decent volume on peaches and nectarines around the middle of May, depending on the weather in the next few weeks.  We’ll keep you informed, as there has been a lot of weather out here and …

It appears that this year we will move directly from winter into summer.  With a chance of rain still in the forecast for the next few days it seems mother nature will do what she wants.  Early next week is predicted to be  sunny and in the 80’s with another chance of rain at the …

Cold weather has put a hold on everything here in the valley. Historically our first peaches were picked the first week of May. This year, we are two weeks in and still no peaches. This weekend the weather is set to shift from 65 to 85 degrees, which means that Monday should be a decent …

Tree Fruit Below are variety pictures taken on 5/4/2010 of product at their current maturity, along with estimated start dates for early season tree fruit.   Peach Spring Flame 20 – 5/15 Nectarine Zee Fire – 5/24   White Peach Spring Snow – 5/31 White Nectarine Arctic Star – 6/5 Black Plum Flavorosa – 6/1 Red …

Peaches This week we started picking our predominant peach varieties for this time of year, Spring Flame 21 and Zee Diamond.  Harvest will continue on these varieties into the middle of next week. Spring Flame 21                                          Zee Diamond Nectarines Zee Fire nectarines had their first pick early this week.  Harvest  will continue into the beginning …