Funny, this morning I was looking for the garden thread, and didn't look hard. But it was because I picked fresh peaches from my peach tree yesterday morning. Picking them 100% fresh is amazing. (my peaches have free pits, BTW, so they come apart easily)
I encourage everyone to plant any fruit that grows well in their yard. I have brambles, strawberries, grapes, plums and peaches. Historically, the raspberries and black raspberries have been the best, still struggling with finding a solid place for the strawberries, and +20 years of grape growing, I've only managed to harvest a handful of them thanks to animals always getting them before me.. The peach tree has taken a while- but it's amazing. Plums grows more tree than fruit.
I tried blueberries, but they want opposite soil to brambles.
Still, the fresh peaches made me want to tell everyone who can grow anything to grow fruit.
Peaches come from a can.
In reply to alfadriver :
You should be able to put blackberries and blueberries together.
For a long time my family would go blueberry picking and I would wander around just getting buckets of blackberries from the same spot. (Still don't know why people prefer blueberries to blackberries.)
I couldn't edit the original post, so here is what I did.
1. Grab a peach and a pair of needle node pliers.
2. Hold the peach so that the little "butt line" is oriented at 6 and 12 o'clock.
3. Insert the opened pliers at 3 and 9 o'clock.
4. Push in far enough to grab the middle of the pit and squeeze the pliers.
5. A few slight twists and the pit should pop right out. No mess what so ever!
6. Enjoy.
Beer Baron said:Peaches come from a can.
I have an ongoing argument with my daughter that she must sing the song while eating peaches... I think if I had started it when they were kids, I could have been successful.
(Im kind of a brown thumb and would have zero idea how to successfully grow anything other than thistles.)
I live on a poison ivy and pricker bush farm .
In reply to Mr_Asa :
I tried blueberries for a few years in that spot, and they just died. As soon as I changed to brambles, it's been amazing. So they might be able to live side by side, I just could not make it work. Being an engineer, I'm inherently lazy- so I want to do as little work as I can to grow fruit.
And the brambles are so awesome that I can now get plantings and give them away. As I work on that process, I'm looking to sell some plantings via a local farmer market store.
Beer Baron said:Peaches come from a can.
They were put there by a man.
In a factory downtown
You clearly don't know where my needle nose pliers have been.
alfadriver said:In reply to Mr_Asa :
I tried blueberries for a few years in that spot, and they just died. As soon as I changed to brambles, it's been amazing. So they might be able to live side by side, I just could not make it work. Being an engineer, I'm inherently lazy- so I want to do as little work as I can to grow fruit.
And the brambles are so awesome that I can now get plantings and give them away. As I work on that process, I'm looking to sell some plantings via a local farmer market store.
Interesting. Maybe brambles can live where blueberries do, but blueberries can't where brambles do?
If I had my little way I'd eat peaches every day.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
Music was better when it was being made by awkward geeky people.
However the The Teaches of Peaches is very much a different genre.
alfadriver said:Funny, this morning I was looking for the garden thread, and didn't look hard. But it was because I picked fresh peaches from my peach tree yesterday morning. Picking them 100% fresh is amazing. (my peaches have free pits, BTW, so they come apart easily)
I encourage everyone to plant any fruit that grows well in their yard. I have brambles, strawberries, grapes, plums and peaches. Historically, the raspberries and black raspberries have been the best, still struggling with finding a solid place for the strawberries, and +20 years of grape growing, I've only managed to harvest a handful of them thanks to animals always getting them before me.. The peach tree has taken a while- but it's amazing. Plums grows more tree than fruit.
I tried blueberries, but they want opposite soil to brambles.
Still, the fresh peaches made me want to tell everyone who can grow anything to grow fruit.
For discussion sake, let's say I found a nursery around here with a small (I have no idea) peach tree. How long would it take to grow to the point of bearing fruit?
There is in an unincorporated town south of Tulsa, Porter, that is famous for it's peaches. But if I could plant a few in the front yard, that would be phenomal!
lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) said:I couldn't edit the original post, so here is what I did.
1. Grab a peach and a pair of needle node pliers.2. Hold the peach so that the little "butt line" is oriented at 6 and 12 o'clock.
3. Insert the opened pliers at 3 and 9 o'clock.
4. Push in far enough to grab the middle of the pit and squeeze the pliers.
5. A few slight twists and the pit should pop right out. No mess what so ever!
6. Enjoy.
What did you mean by enjoy? Peach pits are poisonis.
In reply to z31maniac :
I got *some* peaches year 1. But that was a dumb move as the tree was too young to support a few peaches and some branches broke. Then for a few years I struggled with a fungus. Once I moved my compost pile to almost next to it, it's now gotten really good. But it's been a decade.
Still worth it- the tree is a nice looking tree that is on the smaller side, and it blooms some really pretty flowers every spring.
I think if it was put in a great spot right away, a couple of years would be enough to get it established with a good pruning cycle.
@alfadriver - My wife grows blueberries (in pots), and she says they must have acidic soil.
@Mr_Asa - The Seattle area is literally overgrown with Himalayan blackberries, which suck except when fruiting - you'd love it. Local satire: https://theneedling.com/2023/06/27/idiot-buys-blackberries-at-the-store/
@johnnydej - yes, a very different genre...
Lyrics are NSFW!
In reply to procainestart :
I knew about the acidic soil- but just could not get my back yard acid enough. But if I continue to not really use my new massive containers, I may try to convert one to grow blueberries.
In reply to alfadriver :
Pine bark/straw? They do well with azaleas from what I remember
Beer Baron said:In reply to David S. Wallens :
Music was better when it was being made by awkward geeky people.
The 80s were dominated by Phil Collins. The dude looks like a grumpy plumber whose parents were blindfolded by necessity. These days they aren't marketable if they don't look at home in a Calvin Klein ad. That's not to say there isn't good stuff coming out today, but it won't be marketed. End rant.
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