Here’s a round up of New Jersey fall produce loads – if that is possible. Just keep in mind this is the fourth consecutive year that adverse weather has affected shipments during the spring and summer. We’ll see if the fall is any better.
So if your planning to haul Jersey fall produce, remember the loads won’t be available until the product it safely out of the ground.
New Jersey’s 11 principal fresh market vegetables are tomatoes, sweet corn, peppers, cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, spinach, eggplant, escarole, snap beans and asparagus. The five main fruits are strawberries, blueberries, peaches, apples and cranberries for processing. New Jersey is still shipping declining volumes of summer produce. Peaches started normally this year in mid-July and will finish up any time now. Warm season herbs, such as basil and mint, are also finishing. All of these products will be done at frost by mid-October.
New Jersey fall shipments include spinach, escarole/endive, lettuces, turnips, radishes, and sweet potatoes, which have just started. There also are lesser amounts of cabbage, collards, kale, beets, Swiss chard, pickles, cucumbers, radishes, butternut and acorn squash, and herbs such as parsley, dill, coriander, arugula and cilantro.
Partial loads of New Jersey non-storage apples began in early September, with the Gala, McIntosh, Jonathan and Courtland varieties. Available anytime now will be Red Delicious, Empire, Jonagold and McCoun. Golden Delicious, Rome, and Stayman Winesap start shipping by early October. Braeburn, Fuji and Granny Smith will start in mid-October.