It was hot and the animals were hungry so we picked everything earlier than the supposed harvest date. Turned out they know better than we do, because everything tastes great.
Canadice grape: small but very sweet, very pretty
Himrod grape: sweet and a little tangy, very good
Sugar Twist: very good crunchy or soft
Fortune plum: firm, sweet, a little sour but thin skin, very good flavor
Kelsey plum: The green one is still a little bitter. The other was very good, firm but juicy and sweet, the thin skin is a little sour. Very good plum. The last few years we waited until they were soft and sweet, by then the texture was like baby food and they ended up in the jam.
The new Era apple was having some heat stress so we thinned a few. Even for the very small one the skin is not bitter, the flesh actually gets more sour on the bigger one. They are good in a little salad, with lettuce and tomatoes that are surprisingly still alive under the hot sunlight.
Here is my Peach number (1) multi Grafted Redhaven, Veteran and Frost. Redhaven peaches shown are about 10 days away . I did thinning twice and still left too many . Tree is touching to the ground and I have to reshape it next year.
I too am impressed with your two stem tomato growing. Would you be willing to start a thread next spring showing the rest of us how it’s done? The wire cages I’ve been using just don’t cut it.
Well… you know what that is… that one still on the tree is my last Early Mcintosh apple… it should be ready in a few days.
So this Early Mc apple… ripened fruit from June 10 until something like July 20 depending on exactly when this last one is good and ripe.
There was never a whole lot of them ripe at the same time, they just sort of trickled in… I like that.
I do have some in the freezer from this year in apple/blackberry jam. But that one on the tree is the last one… I will keep a close eye on it and make sure and savor that taste one more time this year.
Squirrels? They stripped my Ambre nectarine potted tree of every fruit and the things were green and rock hard still. They are also stripping a donut peach (green/rock hard) and a another potted peach. They are eating the seeds. I’ve never seen this before. Traps are set and ready.
My vote is on squirrel as well. Rabbits don’t seem to bite all over the place like that. They seem to work on eating one side and continue on. Rabbit teeth marks are also easier to identify.
Also, if you have both animals in your yard like I do, your fruit was probably stripped by a squirrel who took a bite here and a bite there and left the fruit lying around for a rabbit to nibble on it, too.
I hope you all are having a great growing season.
Here are some of the things I have fruiting at the moment.
If any varieties seem off please let me know, some of these are fruiting for the first time and I still need to confirm they are true to type.
@PharmerDrewee Thank you. The birds are having a field day with my blueberries and mulberries right now. The squirrels and chipmunks have been a big problem so I’m trying to protect anything I can from them. Which reminds me I didn’t even share pictures of the pawpaws.
I wrapped a Susquehanna fruit up with some netting.
Wabash at the top and a netted Susquehanna at the bottom.
. Tree is touching to the ground and I have to reshape it next year.
