Garden

[cheriere]

I can't recall a year our regular Peach trees have produced so many!  We've had to prop the branches around our trees so they wouldn't break off!  I'm sorry I've had to cut the pictures down so much, but it wouldn't accept the file sizes.

These are not the white peaches behind the house, but two regular peach trees from the front yard.  Looks like I'll have some good cobblers and a lot of work preparing them to freeze.😃🍑🍑

Do you eat a peach with the skin or peeled most often?

[cindyNC]

What will you do with all of them? 

[We rescue cats]

They look luscious!!! I love the smell of fresh peaches. Enjoy!

[goldensrbest]

Wow, you sure have so many garden items. 

[cheriere]

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@cindyNC wrote:

What will you do with all of them? 

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Honestly, I know I'll have to give some away.  My aunt loves to freeze them too.  I'll probably pick enough for her so she can have some fresh cobbler and store some too.

If you all lived close by, I'd surely offer you some.😃❤️

[jlkz]

@cheriere 

 Beautiful crop of peaches !

When we bought our home there were a number of pear, apple and hazelnut trees.

After a few years, we had bushels of pear from the pear tree...it was as though it was in overdrive.  It died the next year.

The hazelnut shrub produced buckets of nuts...we had to put them in boxes with a free sign out front !  It heralded the end of the hazelnut.

I hope the plentiful harvest isn't a precursor of a problem !

[cheriere]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

Wow, you sure have so many garden items. 

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Tell me about it lol.😂

Thats why I haven't been able to post a lot these past couple weeks.  Between the garden and taking mom to appointments, I'm killed!  
Today, my dad is cutting up some of the cabbage to can chow chow.  It's a mixture of vinegar, spices, chopped cabbage and peppers.  The whole house smells like it.

[cheriere]

@jlkz 

Thank you 😃❤️

Sounds like you've had your fair share of established fruit trees too.  I've never had a hazelnut tree, but we've had all the others my whole life.  I can remember helping plant some of our pear trees and start our grape vines even as a little girl.  We always have walnuts every year too.

We've had a lot of peaches before, but usually it isn't so hot so fast here.  This year, we didn't have much of a winter at all.  Luckily, there were really no heavy frosts since the beginning of March.  That's usually what stops the fruit for that year.

 However, I do have one of my cherry trees that's got some kind of fungus on its trunk.  it had a lot of cherries, but I can tell this one is in for trouble.

[BlueFinch]

I'd love to be your neighbor, just to walk through your gardens and grab a peach, too. You wouldn't miss just one, lol. This tree is really showing off for you this year. 

[cheriere]

@BlueFinch 

I wish you were my neighbor.  I'd welcome you to pick anything you want.😃❤️

We always put out more than we can eat and I sure don't like seeing anything go to waste.