I haven't tasted any peaches yet as the tree is only on it's third year. I don't know if we will get peaches or not. But I pruned it as best I could following the directions I found on the internet. Of all the fruits I have ever eaten, ripe peaches off the tree have got to be the most mind altering of all.
Thought is suspended when eating a good peach, you dive right into the unspeakable realm.
We planted a Clementine tangerine tree this winter also. I have never grown a citrus tree. I am curious to see how it will do. I used to live in the mountains and citrus was no where to be found at our elevation. But here, lots of people have them in their yards. We rented a house for 2 years that had a mature orange tree in the back. There is no way in the world that two people can keep up with the fruit that falls from one orange tree during the season.
I used to go out there EVERY DAY and pick up between 12 and 20 oranges. I made juice, ate oranges, gave them away, saved them for family, took them as gifts, and still ended up throwing piles of them away in the garbage each week. I felt horrible doing it. Even my neighbors stopped answering their door when I would come over with an innocent looking brown paper bag in my arms.
Anyway, even though the branches on my fruit trees are bare and the blackberry vines are just sticks, I know that come summer there will be fruit ripening in our very own yard. I haven't mentioned the Fugi apple tree in the front. I have strict orders from my husband not to prune it. That HE will do that one. For some reason he has adopted the apple tree as the only plant that matters to him.
so I left it alone today even though my pruners were snapping in my hand to get at it.
Okay, enough rambling. . .