{"id":3284,"date":"2024-02-09T05:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2024-02-09T05:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:03:28","slug":"3284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=3284","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Update- Friday – 9 February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the next few days we will have the very last of our apricots which are picked on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clutha Gold are a delicious apricot – the taste of a Moorpark with the skin of a Sundrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good quality 2nd Grade boxes are available daily until finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PYO <\/a>Moorpark and Stevens Favourite apricots are still all go and will continue until they finish – all ladder work\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple King plums are available as from today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweet and juicy, yellow flesh with a purple skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great eating plum and are also used for cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.\"\ud83c\udf50\"\"\ud83c\udf50\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They must be ripened off the tree as this is when they develop their lovely flavour so are picked when slightly green\u2026.. great for eating and bottling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red Gravenstein – Heritage – are an early season apple which ripens in Summer \"\ud83c\udf4e\"\"\ud83c\udf4e\" – 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 \u2018custard and stewed apples\u2019 which I was introduced to as a very young child which I still love to this very day \"\ud83d\ude0a\" (thanks Mum).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Doris plums are about 10-14 days away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawera and Luisa plums are about 10-14 days away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cox\u2019s Orange apples are about 3 weeks away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Royal Gala about 4 weeks away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is a lovely day with tomorrow looking very disappointing at this stage \"\ud83d\ude33\" however – Sunday – Monday – Tuesday and Wednesday look great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call me anytime on 027 288 6090<\/a> for all queries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}