Gonna Eat a Lot of Peaches...

Peaches galore this summer! I thought I'd thinned out the fruit by 60% or so, but maybe I need to thin by 80% to prevent damage if there has been good pollination. A few small limbs broke; but the fruit did not weigh the branches badly enough to bend them all the way to the ground.

[@johnnysworld-backyardorchard]

Wow, you hit the jackpot on peaches! Wow, peach pies for everyone 🎉

[@metalsplash310]

My 28 year old peach tree finally started dying this year, they're only supposed to live for 10 to 12 and occasionally 20 apparently. That is an insane amount of peaches

[@j.t.l.44]

Your tree looks great and produced a LOT! Would love to air layer a branch or two.

[@virginia3222]

Just a thought - peaches are my favorite thing to preserve in my dehydrator. The fruit gets a really nice texture, a bit leathery, and they are really sweet. I slice each peach into six. Almost time to buy another bushel.

[@Avo7bProject]

I had not considered that before. It does make sense as a way to capture more value from a crop. So many peaches go ripe at once and become food for the wasps.

[@PeterEntwistle]

Yummy, I do love peaches! They are tricky to grow here without a greenhouse due to peach leaf curl and our cool summers 😢

[@Avo7bProject]

Yeah, my analogy to that would be growing summer squash. Great climate for it here, but the squash vine borers ruin the plants. I've tried planting in different periods to avoid the pests and could not come up with a solution. I probably have to keep squash in containers covered by insect netting and hand pollinate to succeed.

[@metalsplash310]

I find that the frost peach variety works well, it works in western washington where we have quite cool summers and peach leaf curl problems. Its resistant to both. The climate of western washington is extremely similar to the climate of the UK, I've watched your videos before.

[@PeterEntwistle]

@@metalsplash310 Interesting, I'll have to have a look for that one. It's not one I've come across before.