We planted a peach tree about three years ago. For the past couple of years, we have gotten measly harvests of 5 or less peaches that we picked too early. That all changed this year.
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| BOOM. 100+ peaches. |
Our peach harvest was so bountiful that the branches were weighed down to the point where they touched the ground. Aaron had done a good job pruning it, so they had been pointing up before they started popping out peaches. The low hanging branches were kind of convenient because Annie could pick herself peaches. It was common to see her outside in the backyard with a peach in each hand. She would lie on her belly with her little legs kicking up in the air as she took a bite of one peach and then the other. She was perpetually sticky with peach juice and was banned from eating them inside. Even now that they are all gone, she will sometimes go up to the peach tree and start saying "Peach? Peach?" in a longing little voice.
The peaches were so juicy and sweet. The two weeks where we had peaches on the tree was a total dream come true for me. We ate as much as we could and stuffed Max and his friends with peaches while they were here visiting. We gave bags away to neighbors and friends. We made many jars of peach freezer jam, 2 peach cobblers, some smoothies, and then froze a big bag. Peach paradise.
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| The first peach of the season! |
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| The Rollins boys came over to help us pick the difficult to reach peaches. They had to earn their free peach bag |
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| In other garden news, we tried to grow Kohlrabi fro the first time. Most of it got eaten by grasshoppers or something, and only one had a big bulb. |
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| Pretty neat and yummy. We may try this one again! |
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| We also tried chickpeas. We should have planted twice as many plants as we did to get a decent yield. I don't know if they were bountiful enough to be a repeat crop. |
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