Making the decision on when to harvest can be a very tricky and complicated issue. The longer you intend to store the fruit, the more precise your timing needs to be. For summer apples, most growers only intend to store fruit until their higher quality fall apples come on stream, so storage times beyond a[Read More…]
Thanks to all members of the Garwood family and staff who hosted us for the summer field day last week. Growers were inspired by the excellent job Garwoods do with fruit and vegetable production and marketing. The fruit, vegetable and farm marketing industries in the state were well represented, and all in attendance appreciated members[Read More…]
Following the success of last year’s Summer Field Tour at Tuttle Orchards, this year we are again planning a combined summer field tour with the Indiana Horticultural Society, the Indiana Vegetable Growers’ Association and the Indiana Farm Market Association. We will be hosted by Garwood Orchards in La Porte, IN. While we encourage membership[Read More…]
The warm weather is pushing crop develop rapidly. Grapes are at bunch closure, summer red and black raspberry harvest has begun. Some primocane fruiting types are beginning to flower. Gooseberry and currant harvest has begun. Apples are 1-2 inches in diameter. Strawberry harvest is over and renovation has begun. The chemical thinning window has closed[Read More…]
Seal the Seasons is a growing food company founded on supporting local growers by making local food available all year-round. Seal the Seasons partners with local family farms on a state-by-state basis to source local food (focused primarily on fruit and vegetables), freeze it, and sell to grocers, with the grower proudly featured on the[Read More…]
Following the success of last year’s Summer Field Tour at Tuttle Orchards, this year we are again planning a combined summer field tour with the Indiana Horticultural Society, the Indiana Vegetable Growers’ Association and the Indiana Farm Market Association. We will be hosted by Garwood Orchards in La Porte, IN. While we encourage membership in[Read More…]
For chemical thinning of apples, the best time for post-bloom thinning is around 10-12 mm fruit diameter. With warm temperatures fruit can grow up to 1mm per day, so in northern areas we are right in the middle of chemical thinning time. Often at thinning time we talk about temperatures needing to be warm enough[Read More…]
This is the last installment of our series on spring temperatures for 2018. What a strange year it has been. We started out very cool until mid-April and it didn’t really warm up until early May (Fig. 1). I think every day since then has been over 80F. Although the early spring was much cooler[Read More…]