For those of you waiting for the "Montauk" variety or for our white corn, you'll have to remain patient until closer to August!
It usually takes two to three weeks to have pickable ears from this point so you should expect to see our early variety, "Temptress", in early July. Anyone in the Hollis, NH area has probably noticed them on the trees along Pepperell Road - they are almost fully sized, already have a stunning color, and should be ready to pick by July 10 at the LATEST! After that the PF1s and PF5s (the dethroned earliest peach varieties here at Kimball Fruit Farm) will ripen in mid-July as they always have.Īs of the time I'm writing this (June 26) the early corn has tasseled (the tassel is the crazy hairdo each stalk grows on top - it's actually the male reproductive part of the plant) and started to form small ears and silk (the silk is the female reproductive part - each individual strand of silk has to be pollinated to form each individual kernel of corn). These are a compact, clingstone, yellow peach and for the past two seasons they have ripened nearly a week earlier than the rest. That all changed five years ago when we inter-planted the variety "Rich May" into our orchards. Unfortunately, precise specificity is up to Mother Nature and so far, she has declined to comment on the matter (a very tough lady to get a hold of) but we can definitely give you a ballpark estimate based on previous years and our own growing experience.įor years we have been able to say "Peaches are ready July 15th" with the same certainty as we have said "Strawberries run Father's Day to Fourth of July". Early July is the magical time where you will see these products intermingling on our shelves beaconing us over to join them in celebrating the change of seasons!Ī lot of you have been asking us when to expect three products: peaches, corn, and tomatoes. Rainer is juicy and its sweetness is on the mild side.It's officially summer here at Kimball Fruit Farm! Usually, the Fourth of July is the big turning point out in the fields and orchards: the late spring products (strawberries, green garlic, scapes) are on the way out and the early summer products are just starting to ripen (raspberries, blueberries, sweet cherries, summer squash and zucchini, peaches, plums). Rainer has a creamy, yellow flesh that fades to a nearly white heart. Rainer is sweeter than Bing, though considered a bit more fragile. Rainer is a hybrid between the Bing and Van cherries, two of the sweetest sweet cherries out there. The fastest way to enjoy the Rainier is to simply let your teeth and tongue do the work. You can use a paring knife to slit the Rainer from north to south then pull it apart, popping out the pit. This is a sweet cherry you will enjoy eating out of hand. Rainer is unlikely to make it from the farm stand to the kitchen.
Sweet cherries can be be added raw to fruits salads, ice cream sundaes, yogurts, sorbets, and custards, or cooked in compotes, tarts, pies, flans, soufflés, and clafoutis.
Rainer is a bit more eye-popping, bi-colored bright yellow and cherry-red skinned.īoth Rainer and Royal Ann are sweet cherries, the type of cherries you can eat without cooking. Royal Ann–sometimes called Napoleon–is golden yellow blushed with red. There are two cherry varieties with partially yellow or golden skins: Rainer and Royal Ann. Ranier is a yellow and red-skinned cherry that it is one of the sweetest cherries you will ever taste.
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