News Items tag as: Okanagan peaches

Up to 80% of Okanagan peach crop wiped out by winter cold snap
February 16, 2024 - 6:00 AM
iNwine

The cold snap in the southern Interior earlier this winter wiped out roughly three-quarters of stone fruits like peaches, apricots, plums and nectarines.
Okanagan peaches are scarce this summer
July 30, 2022 - 6:00 PM
iNwine

Many of the Okanagan’s u-pick farms are not open for peaches this year.
Peaches are ready in the South Okanagan
July 14, 2020 - 6:29 AM

A sure sign of summer in the Okanagan is peach season, and it is underway.
It looks like another bad year for Kamloops, Okanagan peaches, apricots
May 14, 2020 - 6:30 AM
iNwine

It's blossom time for early budding fruits like peaches, nectarines and apricots but gardeners from Kamloops and the Okanagan are noticing bare branches with few blooms, if any.
Local peaches are being picked and packed now
July 27, 2018 - 7:30 PM

PENTICTON - The Okanagan peach season has arrived.
Growing season for peaches has been, well, peachy in the Okanagan
August 05, 2016 - 1:00 PM

OKANAGAN - If you enjoy Okanagan peaches there’s no time like the present to pick some up, say growers.
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Up to 80% of Okanagan peach crop wiped out by winter cold snap