lynne duncan
03-Aug-10, 10:35
does anyone else grow peaches in caithness,
my mum has a peach tree in her greenhouse for the last 20 odd years, and thanks to her green fingers she always has a bumper crop of between 100 to 200 peaches, but she never picks them just waits until they naturally drop off (slings a net under them to catch the fruit), the worst is they all ripen in the same two/three weeks so then she becomes inundated with fruit. so wherever she goes guaranteed that she'll be handing out fruit.
what i love about these peaches is that the skin is so furry but they peel really easily (think of a banana) and they are huge.
my mum has a peach tree in her greenhouse for the last 20 odd years, and thanks to her green fingers she always has a bumper crop of between 100 to 200 peaches, but she never picks them just waits until they naturally drop off (slings a net under them to catch the fruit), the worst is they all ripen in the same two/three weeks so then she becomes inundated with fruit. so wherever she goes guaranteed that she'll be handing out fruit.
what i love about these peaches is that the skin is so furry but they peel really easily (think of a banana) and they are huge.