July 21· The first peaches of the season are on the stand. Try the juicy Early Red Free with tender, white flesh, or our flavorful yellow peach varieties Garnet Beauty and Salem.
Tag Archives: Wickhams Fruit Farm
Crop rotation
July 20· Test-driving this tillage implement on a field where we are rotating out dwarf cherries for a different crop next year. Crop rotation is a practice we have engaged in for many years, which benefits the soil.
Now cooking peach jam
Visual variety of tomatoes
July 15 · Add some visual variety to your salads with our orange, pink, and red tomatoes. Not only do they vary in color, but they offer a diversity of flavors as well.
Seeding sorghum-sudangrass
July 14· Seeding sorghum-sudangrass with our newly-acquired Great Plains grain drill. Incorporating the organic matter from this sorghum-sudangrass into the soil after it is grown is one of our many conservation practices here at Wickham’s Fruit Farm.
Cherry tomatoes
July 13· Our cherry tomatoes are an explosion of flavor in your mouth.
July 12, 2017
On the blackboard this week.
Melons
These melon plants are starting to fill out the spaces between the rows.
On the Farm
July 10 at 6:00pm · The sun dapples the grass on the slope down to where the road goes through a hedgerow.
A sailboat on Peconic Bay
July 9 at 6:00pm · A sailboat on Peconic Bay, with the South Fork visible in the distance.