{"id":3494,"date":"2026-02-11T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:07:25","slug":"3494","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday afternoon the team picked the first of the Black Doris plums so they are now available on the Fruit Stall \ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude0aGreat for bottling, stewing, jam, chutney, eating,etc.Just a reminder that the natural powdery coating on the plums is an edible waxy substance called bloom.It&#8217;s presence indicates freshness. \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\udc4dBon Chretien pears are still all go and Purple King plums are still available.\ud83c\udf50\ud83c\udf50As from this coming Monday, Black Doris courier orders will start being sent out. Still taking courier orders for Bon Chretien pears.PM or txt\/Call me on 027 288 6090 for all enquiries.Open 7 days  7am-9pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000031509-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000031509-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000031509-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000031509-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000031509-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000031509.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon the team picked the first of the Black Doris plums so they are now available on the Fruit Stall \ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude0aGreat for bottling, stewing, jam, chutney, eating,etc.Just a reminder that the natural powdery coating on the plums is an edible waxy substance called bloom.It&#8217;s presence indicates freshness. \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\udc4dBon Chretien pears are still all go [&hellip;]<\/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\/3494"}],"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=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}