My Garden Gold peach tree has been in my garden for two and a half years now. But I haven’t had much luck with peaches… until this year.
Each spring, my peach tree is covered with blossoms. It’s glorious. The flowers are followed by tons of embryonic peaches. They cover the branches. This year I tried something new: I thinned the peaches. I twisted off all but two or three peaches on each branch. And it paid off. Instead of a bunch of small, sickly peaches, I got big healthy ones.
I’ve been waiting patiently for them to ripen, and at last the time is here. I’ve lost a few to ants, and a few to rot. I wonder if spraying them with something once or twice during the summer would help. I might try that. But I won’t spend too much effort on this. My cherry tree was too much trouble, and we all know what happened to it.
Here is my harvest. It was fewer than expected, but it did yield a big serving bowl full of cut peach pieces. They’re macerating with some sugar in the refrigerator right now.
Mmmmm….. Lloyd is going to be so jealous when he sees this. Heck, now I want a peach tree, too!
Will you eat your macerated peaches straight or over something? Next time I get some ripe peaches, I want to try this: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/08/quick-and-easy-peach-parcels/
I will be right over to help you with the eating of the peaches.
[Mascerating…is that one of those words that sounds bad but really isn’t?] Nice use of grown-up vocab there, guy! Nice-looking peaches, too. Wish they would intimidate my figs into growing, ripening, softening, sweetening…they’re just doing their best impersonation of hard walnuts this year. Sigh.