The middle of last month I forgot to share one of our best harvests.
This little box of peaches!
They were incredible, grown in the polytunnel and hand pollinated with a brush by my Middlests and me. We were going on holiday in Wales for a week, so rather than miss them I harvested them to take with us.
Sweet, juicy and an amazing treat. My neighbour (now into his 80s) was telling me how the "big house" here used to grow them in the one glasshouse, and how 'd always be given some, and how he could never to give into temptation of just taking one.
Having a tree like this down one end of the polytunnel seems like a good use of space, a taller crop, with roots that must extend down below where I'm watering other crops.
Who else grows peaches?
We grew them when I was young, Kev, but not since then as I have never really had the space or climate. But peach cobbler fresh from the oven is one of the best desserts on the fact of the planet.
ReplyDeleteAre there no varieties that can grow outdoors here? I'd struggle to keep it within the confines of a greenhouse.
ReplyDeleteOur previous one blew down last summer in a gale but fortunately, didn't completely break so we were about to get our best harvest ever off of it. I put up around 50 quarts of canned peaches. I planted another one last fall as a replacement but it will be a few years before I expect to get any fruit from it unfortunately. Fortunately though I still have a lot of canned peaches!
ReplyDeleteI have a couple. The main producer I planted in 2014 and I get about 80-200 good ones on it a year. The variety is unknown exactly but a free stone, white flesh. And delish! The other I planted in '19 and has had some setbacks. It was terribly pot bound when I bought it and I think that has something to do with it. Pest and disease magnet. Its a Florida Prince. Yellow cling. The fruits I have gotten to actual maturity taste good and hoping that its recovering and will get on with it.
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