One of my kittens went missing for 20 minutes this morning – found him!

Freshly picked Royal Gala and Golden delicious apples and Beurre Bosc pears are available on the Stall. Golden Delicious is great for both eating and cooking – one of Sandra’s favourite apples

Braeburn and red delicious apples and quinces will be available from next weekend.

No more rain predicted on the forecast – supposed to be a high of 19 degrees today

Call me anytime 027 288 6090 for all queries.

Remember we are open 7am-9pm and we only sell what we grow.

We have freshly picked Royal Gala, Cox’s Orange apples and Beurre Bosc pears available on the Fruit Stall

Golden Delicious apples are also now available as from today – this variety is great for eating, dehydrating, cooking, and is also one of Sandra’s (Mum) favourites apples for bottling

Quinces are still a couple of weeks away as well as braeburn apples. Will keep you updated when the other apple varieties are ready.

Due to Otago Anniversary Day today, and Easter starting this week, the only day I will be sending out courier orders is tomorrow, Tuesday 26th March.

Get in touch if you would like a box of fruit couriered to your door or if you enquire about freight prices,etc.. I can send all varieties of apples as well as pears.

Contact me on 027 288 6090 anytime for all queries.

Open from 7am – 9pm every day

Fruit Update – Saturday – 16 March

Beurre Bosc pears are available on the Fruit Stall in 5 kg bags.

A great eating pear – also great for bottling, poaching, baking, etc.

We have a plentiful supply of Royal Gala and Cox’s Orange apples – available in 5kg and 10kg bags…..freshly picked daily by Sam & the team.

Both are delicious for eating.

Cox’s Orange are also great for cooking, chutney, jelly and Worcestershire Sauce.

Omega plums are coming to an end – will have them available until early next week – gale force winds over the past two weeks certainly played a part in getting them off the trees – just not into crates as I had intended!

I still have spaces next week for courier orders – sending apples out in 10kg and 15kg boxes – get in touch if you would like to order a box or would like to enquire about pricing, etc.

Golden Delicious apples will be ready towards the end of the month, with other apple varieties still to come on

Quinces are still a little bit away.

Call me on 027 288 6090 for any queries you have or a weather update – yesterday’s weather was rather miserable here! Today it looks like we will get to a high of 18 degrees – rain is only due to come in tonight.

Remember we are open from 7am-9pm every day and we only seĺl what we grow.

Fruit Update……29 February…6:45pm

What a beautiful day!

The sun is still shining brightly and the temperature is sitting at 23 degrees.

Our Black Doris plums will be finished by the end of the weekend.

There is also a small amount of Bon Chretien pears left on the Stall

Omega plums will be available on the Stall as from tomorrow.

Also known as George Wilson, they have a delicious juicy red flesh with a speckled red skin.

A very old variety……great for preserving, cooking, freezing, eating, sauce, chutney, etc…..and we freeze them using the free-flow method for smoothies…… long keepers as well.

Cox’s Orange apples will also be available in 5kg and 10kg bags as from tomorrow morning…. great for eating, cooking, preserving, etc. They are a bit tartish …some kids love them while others wait impatiently for a freshly picked Royal Gala apple, which are about a week away

Courier orders for both Omega and Cox’s Orange will commence next week – sending out in 5kg, 10kg and 15kg boxes.

Get in touch if you would like to place a courier order – I send out every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Contact me, Ruby on 027 288 6090 for all queries, weather updates, etc.

Remember we are open from 7am-9pm every day and we only sell what we grow. You’ll like our prices.

Fruit Update – Friday 23 February

Bon Chretien pears will be finished by Tuesday…..selling them in 5kg and 10kg bags

We still have a plentiful supply of Black Doris plums – available in assorted bags and boxes.

Omega plums will begin end of next week.

The very last of the Red Gravenstein apples are on the Fruit Stall today.

Sam tells me the Cox’s Orange apples are a week away and he will begin picking the Royal Gala apples on 5 March…..

Will keep you posted…..

Another lovely day here

Call/txt me on 027 288 6090 for any queries.

Remember we are open from 7am – 9pm every day and we only sell what we grow.

Update – Saturday 17 February

Apricots are now finished.

On the Fruit Stall we have boxes and bags of Purple King plums, Bon Chretien pearsand Small bags of Red Gravenstein apples our first apple of the season.

Black Doris plums are also available on the Stall as of today.

In boxes/bags – great for Jam, sauce, bottling – eating, etc – so easy to freeze – halve and freeze in freezer bags – cook from frozen – stewed plums and hot custard during winter is an inexpensive convenient dessert….or stewed plums and muesli for breakfast – stewed plums with ice cream/yoghurt – the list goes on…muffins…cakes….crumbles

Still taking courier orders for both Pears and Black Doris – sending them out in 5kg, 10kg and 15kg boxes. Contact me if you have any queries or would like to place an order.

If you are passing through and wanting a large amount off the Stall, you can pre-order and we will organise it for you.

Our Luisa plums were decimated by the winds during the week as were the Hawera plums

Very disappointing to say the least!

Thankfully the Black Doris were not affected.

Cox’s Orange apples will now start in the first week in March – unseasonal weather has caused this delay.

Royal Gala will be a week later

All the other apple varieties are looking good as are the Quinces.

Contact me on 027 288 6090 for all queries.

Remember we are open 7am-9pm every day and we only sell what we grow.

Over the next few days we will have the very last of our apricots which are picked on a daily basis.

Clutha Gold are a delicious apricot – the taste of a Moorpark with the skin of a Sundrop.

Good quality 2nd Grade boxes are available daily until finished.

PYO Moorpark and Stevens Favourite apricots are still all go and will continue until they finish – all ladder work…

Purple King plums are available as from today.

Sweet and juicy, yellow flesh with a purple skin.

A great eating plum and are also used for cooking.

Billington plums – red flesh – are on the stall for jam, eating, sauce. This variety was affected by the weather so they are very small this season.

Bon Chretien Pears – also known as Bartlett and Williams Bon Chretien – will be on the Fruit Stall as from tomorrow-Saturday – Sam intends to start the pick tonight.

They must be ripened off the tree as this is when they develop their lovely flavour so are picked when slightly green….. great for eating and bottling.

Red Gravenstein – Heritage – are an early season apple which ripens in Summer – on the Fruit Stall as from early next week – very crisp and very tart so are mostly used for cooking. Great for chutney, jelly, pies or ‘custard and stewed apples’ which I was introduced to as a very young child which I still love to this very day (thanks Mum).

Black Doris plums are about 10-14 days away.

Hawera and Luisa plums are about 10-14 days away.

Cox’s Orange apples are about 3 weeks away.

Royal Gala about 4 weeks away.

Today is a lovely day with tomorrow looking very disappointing at this stage however – Sunday – Monday – Tuesday and Wednesday look great!

Call me anytime on 027 288 6090 for all queries.

PYO Update – Sunday 4 February

Great News!

Today and tomorrow are definitely fine days with no rain at all……yahoo….

Thank goodness the last two days are done and dusted……the weather has been simply awful!

PYO Nectarines are still plentiful. Only a few brave souls picked yesterday…we tried very hard to deter people from coming up and it worked……

PYO Moorpark and Stevens Favourite apricots are still all go.

Also, we have plenty of good quality 2nd Grade boxes of Clutha Gold apricots on the Fruit Stall… Mum (Sandra) and I are making them up at this very moment.

There are no Nectarines on the Fruit Stall – only PYO…very easy picking…

Call me on 027 288 6090 for all queries.

Update

PYO Nectarines are all go – but there is an issue!

I don’t actually know which ‘Weather Report’ to believe.

Some say showers all day, off and on, and others say only showers in afternoon or none at all..

But tomorrow and Monday are great…yahoo..

Please bring your own buckets, shopping bags, boxes or whatever.

We do have shopping bags available for those who forget.

Nectarines are great for bottling, drying stewing, freezing, eating, etc.

‘On Sellers’ or ‘Hawkers’ are strictly forbidden.

PYO is for those wanting fruit to eat or large amounts for bottling, stewing, freezing, drying, etc….

Some pick for their elderly relatives/friends…

PYO Moorparks, & Stevens Favourites are still all go.

Amazingly they haven’t been affected by the rain – will probably finish by Monday but I could be wrong.

As there are other Stalls with boxed Moorparks, you won’t miss out on these…

Mum (Sandra) and I are packing up boxes of Clutha Gold in the Stall for those who don’t want to pick.

Ring me anytime on 027 288 6090 for all queries.

Remember we are open from 7am-9pm every day and we only sell what we grow.

very busy time on the Fruit Stall.

PYO Moorparks are still plentiful as is Steven’s Favourite – they are both old varieties and very tasty.

The next lot of PYO Nectarines are about a week away.

Remember to bring your own bags/buckets for PYO

Black Amber plums will be on the Stall as from today. They are a large black plum – yellow flesh with a tinge of red just under the skin – the taste is divine.

Billington plums are just around the corner – will keep you posted.

Another lovely day ahead of us today with sunshine and no rain or wind predicted!

On the Stall we have boxed Clutha Gold and Stevens Favourite – we don’t have any Moorparks on the Stall – only on the trees.

On our way up the garden path to the Fruit Stall this morning, Sandra (Mum) and I were greeted by a very large aggressive possum on the pathway – it seemed hell bent on scaring us – which I must admit it did – so if we were half asleep walking over here, we certainly aren’t now!!

Call me on 0027 288 6090anytime for fruit queries.

Remember we are open every day from 7am-9pm and we only sell what we grow.