UPDATE After only three days, our nectarines have finished…and after two days our Moorparks have finished as well 
We had a huge amount of new customers during these days which has caused their early demise..sadly many of our regulars who never had a chance to get up on time.
I’m in a hurry to post this to warn everyone who is planning to come up for Moorparks and nectarines so I have missed discussing about other varieties which are still to come on so will talk about them next time. We feel dreadful that this has happened 
We still have a small amount of Roxburgh Red and Stevens Favourite apricots left for PYO but am fairly sure these will get picked out tomorrow. Certainly not worth travelling a long distance.
So tomorrow we will have boxed apricots for stewing only and boxes for eating and cooking. These apricots come from another part of the Orchard, not from the PYO areas as these areas are nurtured and saved for our customers.
Sam just told me Billington plums will be ready in about 2 or 3 days.
This lack of really hot days has certainly hindered the ripening process in all varieties.
Our very early apples, Red Gravenstein, are maybe a week or more away.
The Shiro’s were affected by the early nasty weather so are non existent 
Bon Chretien (Bartlett) pears will be later, at the moment I think about second week in February 
Hawera plums are still a couple of weeks away.
Cox’s Orange and Royal Gala apples will be later too as will all the other apple varieties.
Black Doris are late as well – so maybe mid-February.
Orders are being taken for these from now on.
Will keep you posted about what is happening on the Orchard. Please ring/txt me, Ruby, anytime and I will give you up- to-date reports on weather, fruit or anything else
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