Local roadside vendor Arthur Choquette believes this will be a good year for blueberries, which typically hit their seasonal peak around July 15
Roadside vendor Arthur Choquette has a favourable forecast for local blueberries in Greater Sudbury, predicting a bountiful harvest this season.
His and another vendor’s blueberry stands are located on South Lane Road, south of Highway 69, across from the Cecil Facer Youth Centre. This year’s blueberry crop expectations follow last year’s dud, which Choquette attributed to the oft-repeated idea that blackflies pollinate blueberry plants. Although blackflies have been found not to pollinate blueberry plants, they are theorized to deplete pollen from other plants during years in which the insects are in great abundance, pushing true pollinators toward more flowers.
There were at one time 26 people along Highway 69 selling blueberries, but now he said there are only the two stands, which the city’s planning committee granted a three-year extension for on Monday. “We’ve only had two bumper crops, one in 2011 one in 2019, everything in between has been a hit and a miss,” he said.
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