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Had 3 Belle of Georgia peaches ready to go today. 2 made it to the photo shoot. Tree smells amazing when you walk next to it. First peaches ever from Conway Orchard! 
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Congratulations, those look great.
They look great! And. . . anything grown from your orchard will be divine! Isn’t growing fruit wonderful! Congrats!
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Here’s my haul for the day- over 16 pounds of potatoes (5 different kinds) and 3 Montrose apricots (they are in the middle). I’m not sure if the apricots are ready yet, but I’m worried that they will start disappearing soon. I’ll try sampling them in a day or two when they are softer.
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Bob,
Very nice harvest.
Tony
Nice potato haul!
I got my first Montrose this year. Its a perfectly fine apricot and had few problems. I probably would have liked it more if it were not for the Florilege ripening right net to it. Florilege is a new disease-resistant French apricot that someone imported. It is a great mid-late apricot, few problems and excellent taste.
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Blueberry Citrus Basil Sorbet
It broke a 100 degrees in my backyard today.
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Recipe please, that looks great!
Blueberry Citrus Basil Sorbet
3 cups sugar
3 cups water
bunch of lemon and lime basil (more the better)
1/4 lemon
4-5 cups blueberries
Make a simple syrup, bring sugar and water to a simmer/boil or until sugar is dissolved
Remove from heat, tear basil and crush lemon into pot, let steep 15-20 minutes strain through fine chinois removing basil and lemon
Cool completely
Add blueberries, puree with immersion blender
(optionally strain again to remove seeds and skins, I like the color, nutrition and texture, i leave 'em in)
Cool completely again and then process in your ice cream maker until 1.5x the original size (15 mins in my machine)
Remove from machine and place in freezer for 2-4hrs
pro tip: freeze the blueberries ahead of time and use them to cool the strained steeped syrup, puree and process in one shot
Enjoy
I like my sorbets to be sweet, with a refractometer you can really zero in on the sweetness, this batch used Northland berries, not the sweetest, so a 1:1 water:sugar ratio works, more sweet fruit use less sugar, etc.
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This is what I picked yesterday from my Stark Bros 4th of July Peach ( Flamin Fury® PF#5B).
Small to medium fruit, now very sweet pretty strong peachy taste and tangy/sourish.
Mike
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ConwayOrchard, congrats. Very good looking peaches, how is the taste??
MES111, looking good 
. Mine has not turned color yet, usually my 4th of July ripe around Aug.20th.
Bob, nice harvest.
This is what I got, really large breba fig. Taste is mild sweet. Don’t know the name of the fig, would like someone ID it for me.
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Green Ischia?
My Robada apricot is ripe, falling from the tree. First year fruiting, on the small side but the flavor is yum yum good
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Don’t know. Someone sent me a few varieties of cuttings, some cuttings were rooted, some did not so the record was lost.
I sampled a Moonglow pear (3" smooth cutting but not sweet enough yet) and a Ayers pear (1.75" still hard but tasted sweet enough for me. These were picked and tested this morning without and refrigerator and waiting time. Bill
Eye-popping harvest. Jam or pie? Looks great!
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Bob, what a fantastic array of potatoes! All colors, all shapes and sizes. I am fond of any potato that is a ‘fingerling’ variety. They are so sweet. Looks great. I only grew Kahtadins and Kennebecs this year. Bet the apricots were great too! Hopefully next year I’ll have my first cots. Roast those potatoes on the grill. Well done!