I guess I’ve posted too many lately, but this is my first year to get almost any fruit and I’m having so much fun with it! So here are a few more pics of my bounty! Just from this morning. I’ve got lots more cherries and peaches on the trees! YEAH!
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That is fantastic!!!
Killer haul Kevin! Glad to see you finally reaping the benefits of your hard work. Hopefully I’ll be there in a few more years.
Damn! Your peaches are loaded! Love it!
You down south warm weather growers make me so jealous.
Thanks to all of you for taking a moment to look and comment! Only fellow fruit growers can really understand why showing a few photos of fruit is such a big deal and why you hope others will appreciate and understand it!
Yes, Dave, you will most certainly get there just like I am and you will enjoy it just as much as I have.
Matt, the tree in that photo is actually TOO loaded…I have thinned it and gone back and thinned again about 5 times because I can never bring myself to thin as much as I should. As a result, the peaches on that tree are quite small (the larger peaches in the other photo is a different tree.
Bob - It is true that all of us think the grass is greener on the other side. At various times I’m jealous of most other locations, but especially california! By the way…where are you in SE ohio? Near Cincinnattii by chance? I used to live not far from there and miss that area.
Love those peaches, hope we can get cooperative weather next year!
excellent work, you have many peaches in your tree
The area I live in is considered part of S.E. Ohio… I am pretty close to the 77 and 70 Intersection between Cambridge and Zanesville. One hour east of Columbus and one hour west of Wheeling West VA. New Concord, Ohio … Home of John Glenn.
Thanks Bob…I know the general area. You are actually only about 3.5- 4.5 hrs from me, so your weather may not be all that different than my own…though certainly your winters are worse. Good luck, and happy fruiting
Yes, I used to envy California, where my parents and five siblings lived. Then I was out there for a couple years recently helping care for my very elderly father. I tried raising a garden there. The slugs, ground squirrels, and jack rabbits made it nearly impossible. We had to constantly water the fruit and nut trees, as well as the vegetables. Then there was Johnson grass with its inch-thick roots and foxtail grass that would stick in your socks. In summer it gets too hot for the tomatoes to set fruit. After my father died at age 101, I was able to resume my life in good old Wisconsin. Never more do I envy the Central Valley of California. Well, it is okay for a visit in winter when it is twenty-five below zero in Wisconsin, but it isn’t Eden for growing things.
ha. Perfect example of us thinking its easier and better everywhere else (grass is greener) but then finding out our own area isn’t so bad! 