It has been a terrific couple of weeks here at Sweet Life Saskatoons. Our u-pick is now closed, and I want to take a quick moment to thank everyone who stopped in to pick saskatoons (and the occassional sour cherry) and then encouraged their friends and family to come out as well. We have appreciated … Continue reading …And we’re officially finished with the 2023 season!
Hi everyone! What a wonderful crop of saskatoons this year! I hope many of you have had a chance to come out and get your yearly quota of the delicious saskatoons. There are still lots of saskatoons for you to pick, but we are also running our harvester and Sunday, July 30th will be the … Continue reading Winding Down the U-Pick
Well, our saskatoon season has been going since Friday, July 14, and it’s been great to get back into the u-pick role. The bushes are really making up for last year’s lack, as even the early picking has been rewarding for our guests. Full buckets of beautiful saskatoons, a place for people to relax or … Continue reading A Winning Combination
We will open this Friday, July 14th for the early saskatoon picking! Our hours will be from 9am-6pm every day until the saskatoons are done. Continue reading Early-Picking
We were away for a couple of days and came home to find that there are already a few saskatoons that are ready to pick, so we will push our opening day up to Friday, July 14th! This will be our earliest opening date since we first started our u-pick, and I’m so excited to … Continue reading Bring It On!
Every year I find that it is difficult to wait patiently for the time when the saskatoons are finally ripe to pick, but even more so this summer since we didn’t have a harvest in 2022. Fortunately it looks like our trees are planning to make up for last year’s loss with an abundance of … Continue reading Practicing Patience
It looks like the summer of 2022 will be very different from the one we imagined through the long winter months and the busyness of spring. Our saskatoons don’t have enough fruit on them for us to open the u-pick this summer, and there has been a lot of red tape surrounding our other activities. … Continue reading A Different Summer
I guess it doesn’t matter how positive a person is thinking, if the fruit isn’t there, there’s not much a person can do about it. Unfortunately, our haskaps have been disappearing even faster than I expected and so there won’t be anything much to speak of for the remainder of the weekend. People are still … Continue reading Positive Thinking?
There is so much green around this summer…quite a contrast to the dry conditions we had last year! We are so grateful for the moisture, but I’m eager for some heat to come our way now. Below is a picture from yesterday. That little bit of almost-purple is encouraging, and we are expecting to open … Continue reading Haskaps (aka Honeyberries)
Showing pictures of the saskatoon blossoms is a yearly tradition, but the dates have varied quite a bit from year to year. I think May 11 was the earliest appearance, and although I may be wrong, it seems like this is the latest…June 6, and the blossoms have just appeared. Such a happy sight! Continue reading Apparently Spring Showers Bring June Flowers
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