Oh, I should add that in our small orchard area we harvested our first peaches off one of our tiny trees.”
oH, MY favorite fruit. You must be in the South. We have a peach crop in MO about every other year and have to fight the deer, coons, and other vermin. Georgia peaches are the best. I bought a dozen last year and had them shipped from GA. Get this—$35 a dozen, but they were delicious. You can’t find GA peaches in stores here—very sad.
I’d say every other year is great for Mo. The cold spring snaps often kill the buds on the peach trees here.
My favorite too! We’re in central FL, so there aren’t a lot of varieties that do well with our low chill hours. I believe this one is a Florda (no ‘i’) Prince. We have a very small, very young fruit orchard. It’s hard finding fruit that will grow well here. We get just cold enough that a lot of the tropical stuff like bananas, avocado, coconuts, etc don’t want to grow, but not so cold that the fruits that need cold will do well.
Wow, $35/dozen. That hurts. Glad they were worth it!