I planted this Yellow Clingstone Peach Tree about 10 years ago, and she is ripening a glorious harvest this year!
She's going wild after a couple of years without pruning. Her long, fruiting limbs are bent down to the ground under the weight of all that sweet, golden fruit.
It's cool under her shady branches, even on a 106°F day like today.
This year, we treated both yards with full spectrum beneficial nematodes. These tiny, parasitic roundworms that target specific garden pests can be purchased online and applied using an attachment for your garden hose. This is the first year we have been free of the metallic green beetles that typically ruin our fruit, so I count the nematodes an organic farming win!
I squeezed the last of the lemons last night. Now it's time to roll up my sleeves, and put up the first batch of peaches.
Of course, I have that song stuck in my head: "Millions of peaches, peaches for me!"
Hope your day brings you more fruit than pit.
Love,Cat
That is awesome and I am jealous! We just planted our first fruit trees in the spring and I can't wait for them to start producing.
Fantastic! As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is today. You have a jump of months!
Wow nice peach tree. We have been trying to grow a peach for a fewa years and nothing. It might be our soil.
Hi @adrian25 :) How old is your peach tree and did you grow it from a seed? If you have a good tree stock growing but no fruit, try grafting a scion from a good fruiting tree. We have a younger peach tree that was propagated from a seed, and its fruit was inedible before grafting a twig from the featured tree. That one was a pre-grafted stock from a nursery. Good luck and thanks for your comment!
I think its about 3 years old. It about 6’ tall.
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Diggit, thanks
I was looking who runs treetuesday here on Steemit when i found this beautiful post. Takig it with me and following you for sure!
Wow, thanks so much! Following you back now :)
Wow what a grand couple of trees you have.
Thanks, @christa. I love trees, I have planted 8 on my little patch of land. It came with the lemon and orange trees. I am super excited about how fruity my red guava is this year. I will be posting on her soon I hope!
Congratulations on your harvest! I lost my peach, apricot and quince tree to disease, how I miss them!
Happy Tuesday to you!
I am sorry to hear that. We put so much forethought and love into fruit trees, it is quite a blow to lose one, much less three. <3
Happy Tuesday to you too :)
It was sad to say the least, specially my quince...
Thank you and enjoy the rest of your day!
Congrats! It is an amazing feeling to harvest your own food! :)
There's nothing else like a long term plan coming to literal fruition. Thanks for commenting!
i like it
I am so happy! Your own village harbors so much beauty xoxo
I want to be your best friend. I am very jealous just looking at that tree. So awesome! Enjoy your haul of heavenly deliciousness.
You are always welcome here in San Bernardino, CA should you ever pass thru! And hopefully it will be during the season or else I will still have a mason jar o' preserves laid up with your name on it
Thanks! Apparently my upvote is worth zero. :(
It's PRICELESS!
Mine is depleted from like 12 or 15 cents, because no algorhythm gonna stop me from liking! <3
The engagement is worth more.
Awesome fruit tree Cat!
I have friends everywhere tell me about probiotics also. They just add one of those bottles you buy for your belly to a watering bucket, fill it, and treat all your trees on your property with it!
I wish you much love, so you really have to prune that babe, before her fruit or winter snow starts to crack, split, or completely break off branches!
Millions of peaches...lol thanks for the hypnotic song implant also! Hehehe! =D
Excellent advice re pruning. Lost one branch this season before propping. :)