Amen, Jim 
You are preaching to the choir! I have so many tomatoes from only 7 plants, total, that we have a new house rule:
Everyone must eat a compulsory 2 tomatoes a day. Yesterday I ate THREE!
And I am taking boxes and boxes to friends and family . . . and still a few are over-ripening and end up in the garbage. 
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sugar twist pluerry. 2nd leaf. the tree had hundreds of flowers but only set this single fruit. got to a really big size
taste was really interesting. I’m not sure I’d give it “with cherry notes” unprompted but it was unique and good. with the prompt “it’s a cherry cross” then sure, I guess it does have a real cherry note
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Thank you so much, I will look them up. My family was from Vienna. I would like one more Mirabelle.
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How old is your tree Susu? I am so eager to grow these in my garden. I love Saturn peaches that I have tasted from the market, I can only imagine how good they must be home grown!
I got the first shiro plum tree picked clean today.
These pictured are destined to become wine. They are rather tasty this year so if I can find the time, I might try turning some into jam or jelly as well.
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A lot of nice size Shiro. They are picked on the less ripe side except the ones in the left most bin
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They are not too far from being ripe. I would have liked to let them hang a day or two more, but I have to pick when I have the time and they were starting to drop out of the tree.
They should ripen up some yet on the counter in the next few days. Then they get fed to the yeast!
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After picking way too many peaches, most went to wildlife/ garbage now I got the next problem, pears. Asian pears, 3 tree’s only, here is one. The other 2 look just like this one.
Shortly after pears, PAW PAW,S. Don’t eat many of those either. Than figs, than my 30 potted citrus, eating tomatoes all the while.
Threw musk melon seeds out, don’t when, now I got a musk melon patch that got fertilize from over flow from my newly patch of figs plants, showing a bunch of melons, big ones too.
These wild melons plants gave me a idea. Since I have 30 container citrus tree’s that are growing in black containers, I am going to plant melon plants around them, cover containers for sun protection. They might even climb the citrus tree’s. Pretty cool idea. It just make and old man cry.(eight/three) soon.
I just pick one pear, I do believe is a graft from one of my older trees. The bottom half of the tree looks like Mishirasu, it’s much bigger. Pick too soon , seeds were still white. Very sweet, watery, not much taste big, more round like my old one that I grew.
Top half, I do not know what variety,tag is gone, These tree’s are around 10years old.
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These are good problems!
Eat as much as you can, next year might be different, hope not. I can eat a bucket of them easily.
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i wish i had you guys problem. ive never eaten a tree ripened peach. once in awhile we get some good ones in the store but im sure it doesnt shine a light to yours.
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store peaches have been really excellent for us this year. I think they’re getting better every year, I wonder why. it helps that we’re just a single day’s drive from california
@CAgardener i got one branch of Saturn on my Contender tree. Grafted last year.some people don’t let young grafts fruit but I have so few fruit that I take it whenever I can get. I haven’t tasted that many home grown peaches. But this is definitely a keeper. I’ll remember to pick it end of July next time. Too soft for my taste this time. But sugar sweet. I let it hang since I didn’t want to pick it too early.
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by time they get to Maine nothing is very good anymore. maybe in the bigger cities.
after our heatwave 106 degrees in Seattle, wa most of my peaches dropped, i found this beauty under the canopy! And, i love the color of yellow raspberries.
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Found 2 large Chicago Hardy figs on my 2 year old fig. Lots of figs! We just had a ton of rain in the last week - so I am anticipating a lot of splitting pomegranates, tomatoes, etc.
I ate the littler fig . . . not quite ripe enough. But very pretty.
And I bought one of those puny little Persian Limes last year at Home Depot. Here it is now! It apparently loves the spot on our southern-facing porch. We got several very nice limes. But, I don’t know where I will put it when winter comes! It’s pretty big.
Dixie Scuppernongs are beginning to color up. We need to net them or we probably won’t get any.
There are some Late Fry grapes on another line of wire. But, they are ‘late’ . . . just as their name suggests. No Early Fry fruit set. And no other grapes on any other varieties, either. Maybe next year.
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