With summertime come summer fruits: peaches and nectarines, watermelon, mangoes, pineapples, and berries of all kinds are all in season during the summer months. But there’s one more you shouldn’t forget – Bing Cherries! Fresh Cherries are a Summertime Treat Most of us become familiar with cherry flavors from childhood, but a surprising number of people have seldom if ever enjoyed the taste of fresh, in-season cherries. This is likely because cherry season is so short – by July, sweet mountain Bing cherries are hard to get, and by August they’re gone for another year. Sweet Cherries vs. Tart Cherries…
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Continue ReadingPeach aficionados agree: when it comes to sweet peach flavor, nothing beats the sweetness and superior flavor of fresh Georgia Peaches. Georgia peaches get their legendary flavor courtesy of the southern state’s hot, humid summer nights, which allow still-growing fresh peaches to produce sugar around the clock right up until they’re picked – something that doesn’t happen in other states. Once you’ve bitten into a juicy, melting Georgia Peach from Pittman & Davis, you’ll never be able to settle for a hard, dry, flavorless store-bought peach again! How to Enjoy Georgia Peaches Year-Round The best way to enjoy Georgia Peaches…
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Continue ReadingRio Ruby™ Red Grapefruit…Honeybells…Sumo Citrus®…Sol Zest. We at Pittman & Davis are committed to providing our customers with the freshest, best-quality citrus available, and we’re proud of the many varieties we offer…some you won’t find so easily in your local grocery store. But we’re also proud of our perhaps less exotic, but always popular grown-in-Florida and grown-in-Texas Navel Oranges. What makes a Navel Orange a Navel Orange? A Navel Orange is a sweet orange that, instead of seeds, sports a second, undeveloped “twin” fruit opposite its stem end. This undeveloped fruit is said to bear a resemblance to a…
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Continue ReadingWith the cool and wet winter, we are coming into a late start to our Peach and Nectarines season this year. The size and color of these juicy little morsels are absolutely beautiful and will have the incredible quality you have come to know and expect from Pittman & Davis. Having an extra week or two at the beginning of the season gives the fruit a chance to really develop the delicious sweetness you would expect for of our delicious stone fruits! We are looking forward to an abundant season of delicious peaches and nectarines!
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Continue ReadingFresh from the Sunbelt: We are currently gearing up for another amazing season for our Sweet Georgia Onions. We are almost ready to begin digging up these delicious layered beauties so they can be delivered fresh to your door. Our sweet onions are harvested by hand and then moved to be cleaned, sorted and dried for shipping! This year we have a favorable supply with the continued demand for these sweet onions and look forward to an excellent season!
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Continue ReadingHoney Mandarins (available now from Pittman & Davis) may be small, but they have huge flavor! About the size of a golf ball, these round, orange-colored beauties may resemble the ubiquitous navel orange (and indeed, both fruits are descendants of the mandarin orange), but they have a unique flavor all their own. The honey mandarin boasts a flavor sweeter than other citrus fruits because it’s lower in acid (meaning it’s easier on the stomach) and has a taste reminiscent of spiced honey. Their small sections and honey-sweet flavor are what make honey mandarin oranges a go-to citrus for salads…
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Continue ReadingFresh from the Sunbelt: As we approach the end of our Honey Mandarin season, the internal quality is at it’s peak. We’ll be harvesting for just a few more weeks. They are eating very well and internal color is a rich, deep orange. We’re also very happy with the size this year as they are a little larger than what we’ve seen recently.
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Continue ReadingWith April upon us winter citrus season is fast coming to an end. But you still have time to enjoy healthy, juicy citrus treats when you order through Pittman & Davis…we’re delighted to announce that our best-selling Honey Mandarins are now available! What are Honey Mandarin Oranges? Before getting into what makes a fruit a Honey Mandarin, it might be useful to know more about mandarins as a whole. The mandarin (also known as the mandarin orange) is one of the original citrus species (along with the citron, a lemon-like fruit, and the pomelo, a grapefruit-like fruit) from which…
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Continue ReadingThe best time to buy fruit is when it’s in season because that’s when you’re sure to get the best, tastiest, healthiest fruit available. Eating in-season produce provides more nutrition and more flavor. When you buy fruit boxes from Pittman & Davis, you can be sure that the fruit inside was allowed to ripen naturally. That’s because we know that fruits that are allowed to naturally ripen on the tree and harvested at the proper time have much more flavor and nutrition. Produce that’s not in season undergoes early picking, cooling, and heating that reduces the flavor. In-season fruits…
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Continue ReadingFresh fruit baskets from Pittman & Davis are packed with delicious fruits of all kinds – citrus fruit, orchard fruits, drupes and more. But those aren’t the only classifications. Another category of fruits are labeled multiple and aggregate fruits. But how do we distinguish between these two types? When you send fruit baskets to loved ones, you might know already that the fruits in them come from the flowers of plants – that’s true of all fruits. The flower is the reproductive structure of a plant, and once fertilized, the ovaries mature into fruits. While all fruits have that…