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My Apricots have fallen to the ground.
The "Million Dollar Peach" has very few fruits.


The scungy, dilapidated peach is chock-a-block !!
The branches are bowed under the weight.
 
burglar said:
My Apricots have fallen to the ground.
The "Million Dollar Peach" has very few fruits.


The scungy, dilapidated peach is chock-a-block !!
The branches are bowed under the weight.
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My sincere condolences.

I am related to a cleric godbotherer, who for a fee, negotiated through me, can supervise the internment.

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burglar said:
My Apricots have fallen to the ground.
The "Million Dollar Peach" has very few fruits.


The scungy, dilapidated peach is chock-a-block !!
The branches are bowed under the weight.
Click to expand...

Part of the charm of having a garden! At our previous property we had a lovely little orchard with many fruit trees and every year the bumper crop would be something different We had an apricot tree that we were told by the previous owners never had fruit and one year we were delighted to see lovely luscious aprricots on it (very glad we hadn't pulled it out!). We also had a very spindly peach tree that most years would have quite a lot of fruit and, like yours burglar, the branches were nearly dragging on the ground they were so heavy. If you looked at it in the winter you would have said it was on it's last legs but every year it came up trumps
 
Sorry..... couldn't help myself
 
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In 14 years of growing an apricot tree, I managed to harvest a single apricot; and even for that I had to go halves with a maggot. A peach tree, on the other hand (and on the other side of the fence would deliver several bumper crops - on our side of the fence.
Eventually, the neighbour cut it down because he hated sharing. But that's another story.

The only fruit that really delivered year after year was an old loquat tree, off which I raised an entire family, until we had so many loquats every year that I could make a (very potent) Loquat Liqueur by simply adding some champagne yeast to the mash: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques9.asp

Since downsizing to a retirement unit, I only have space for a few tubs with mandarins and grape vines. The latter have been carrying the first bunches this year; we named each of the five individually. "Wilberforce" Thompson has already fulfilled his destiny. Tasted lovely!
 
The best thing about the stone fruit season is that it's also the mango season. This year they are plentiful and cheap.
 
I was having a discussion the other day with a mate about the best fruit family. We were divided b/w:
Stone fruits
Berries
Melons

Personally I couldn't go past stone fruits. A good nectarine is unbeatable.
 
pixel said:
... A peach tree, on the other hand (and on the other side of the fence would deliver several bumper crops - on our side of the fence.
Eventually, the neighbour cut it down because he hated sharing. But that's another story. ...
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I trimmed the "Million Dollar Peach" until it no longer encroached on the neighbour's property.
I love sharing but I was just being neat, tidy and correct.

Of course I trimmed the top and all the way round to keep it aesthetically pleasing.
Alas, I must have removed too much two-year old wood.
 
For me stone fruit beats anything other than passionfruit and jaboticaba.
A fruit I've not seen since coming to live in Australia is the greengage. We grew these delicious fruit easily in NZ.

This thread is invoking memories of the wonderful gardens my parents and grandparents had, with extensive fruit orchards. There's nothing quite like standing under a fruit tree, picking and eating the ripe fruit.

Fruit trees in the subtropics are not worth the trouble for me - too many pests and diseases.
 
I think I like stone fruits the best, apricots are my favourite but a lot of the ones you buy in the shops are rather bland and floury. A home grown one on the other hand ..... bliss!!!
 
Miss Hale said:
I think I like stone fruits the best, apricots are my favourite but a lot of the ones you buy in the shops are rather bland and floury. A home grown one on the other hand ..... bliss!!!
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Nectarines and cherries for me. I agree on the home grown superiority, but alas it is not to be, for me. I'm sure the shop bought fruit had more flavour (but probably shorter season) when I was a child.

I would live on cherries alone if only I could afford to
 
Miss Hale said:
I think I like stone fruits the best, apricots are my favourite but a lot of the ones you buy in the shops are rather bland and floury. A home grown one on the other hand ..... bliss!!!
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Commercial orchards and market gardens are not breeding for flavour (IMO).
They seem obssesed with size, colour, shape, blemish-free, and shelf life.

As they are selling, I guess production costs, yields,
price and markets must uppermost in their minds.
 
Julia said:
Fruit trees in the subtropics are not worth the trouble for me - too many pests and diseases.
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Maybe you should come to the "Right" City then
We even grow passionfruit along the garden fence.

 
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