Who ever heard of plasticulture strawberry season and peach season overlapping but it did this year.  Combined with at least a two week early start to the season and cultivars like ‘Ruby June’ strawberry that just keeps producing, this year’s strawberry harvest lasted a good solid seven weekends and ended up overlapping the start of early peach harvest.  Peaches are roughly in their third week of harvest.  Blueberries are roughly midway through the season, with color picking of early blackberries just starting.  ‘Lodi’ apple harvest is complete, and the rest of the apple crop looks good too. 

Sweet corn growers who successfully took advantage of early March soil warming started harvest the Saturday before Father’s Day with early season cultivars like ‘Bolt.’  Early bulb onions and garlic are in harvest and curing.  Horseradish grown for #1 root is being lifted and suckered. Tomato harvest is ongoing, but this recent period of extreme heat both day and night may slow ripening and fruit set, a not uncommon issue in the southern portion of the state.