Welcome to the Farm!  U-PICK Blueberries and Blackberries! Bakery in full swing, Blueberries 'n Cream Pies, Original Blueberry Pies, Blueberry Krunch Pie, Blueberry Muffins. Blueberry Frozen Yogurt and Country Vanilla, Blueberry Sundaes- delicious! No Pets Please! Wear closed toe shoes, loose clothing and bring a hat. Young children don't last long in the field, bring an umbrella for them. Always check this website before coming over!!
How to Pick Blueberries (click on "The Berries" at top of page for more pictures) How to pick sweet blueberries?
First understand that a blueberry does not sweeten any further once picked. Look up, look down, and look in the middle of the bush, these berries have stayed on the bush longer than the ones at eye level. You want the biggest, plumpest berry you can find. And, yes it's okay to taste them, but that doesn't help fill your basket, now does it? To speed up your picking try to attach the basket to your belt, so you can use two hands. With that in mind, ask us which rows to pick on, the ones we suggest should have sweet berries on them, we do have four different varieties in the field. Each variety blooms at its own pace and the first to bloom is “Climax”.
These rows are 3,6,9,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42, & 45. The spacing is so that each variety cross-pollinates with the different variety next to it, bees play a large part in pollination. We rent fifteen hives in February to enhance the natural occurring bees in the area. A pollinated field almost doubles the production of berries versus a field not heavily pollinated by beehives. The second variety to ripen is Row 12; these are named Britewell, after Dr. Britewell who introduced this cultivars, Britewell are beautiful. The berries cluster like grapes and these bushes seem to have twice the berries as all the other varieties we have. The third berry to ripen, Tifblue are on rows 1,2,4,5,7,8,10,11,13,14,16,17,19,20,22,23,25,26,28,31,32,34,35,37,38,40,41,43,44, and 46. Tifblue brings in the bulk of our production each year. Tifblue blooms after the last frost date for north Texas , this protects our crop from frost damage, Climax seems to get damaged every year by a late frost. Our last variety is Premier, which is mixed in with the Tifblue on the back half of the field, starting around rows 22.
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