If the current weather pattern holds, we’ll experience a vintage year for deciduous perennial fruit. Definitely, non-irrigated sweet cherries, raspberries, and blueberries have benefited from the dry conditions in Berrien County, Michigan. But peach season is now upon us, and so far, the first two varieties being picked are firmly in the outstanding class.
Harbinger is a small (under 2.5”), red, fuzzy, and a bit oblong variety of clingstone peach. Most years, this cultivar is a good to very good eating peach, once you get the fuzz off, and deal with the very clingy flesh. But this year, Harbinger brings a special treat to the start of Berrien County’s peach season; they are sweet, sweet, sweet, and very peachy tasting.
Flamin Fury PF-1 is the other cultivar now being harvested. It too is eating like a peach ought to eat, sweet and juicy. It too, is a clingstone, but one of larger size, and far less fuzzy.
And as the season progresses, peaches become larger in size and are freed easily from the pit. And if it stays dry, dry, dry, the varieties are only going to get better and better for eating. I’ll keep you posted. But if you’re buying peaches today, don’t be afraid; they’re really outstanding just now.
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