It’s been a fast picking season for fruits during our summer of 2024.
Columnist Phil Potempa’s older brother David assists their oldest sister Carol wading through overgrown, fruit-laden branches of blueberry bushes on June 16 at her 60-year-old family farm patch near Culver, Indiana. Strawberry season, normally prime picking through the end of June, ended three weeks early for most picking patches.
Adding to shortened and expedited seasons this year is the compounded result of the extremely hot and humid temperatures throughout June, which pushed berries to ripen fast over a smaller window for the 2024 picking season. Blueberry bushes require patience and plenty of pruning and care. I learned this early in life from my first employer.
Jerry and Dee Spenner, who shared 40 years of produce farming in North Judson, Indiana, before retiring to Holiday, Florida, are shown in a Sept. 2016 photo. Jerry Spenner died at age 91 on Oct. 11, 2021.
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