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tants” is to thin the peaches. This is one of the steps that homeowners with a tree or two often skip because it seems counterintuitive to remove seventy to eighty percent of the young peaches. A peach tree (and many other fruit trees) will put on far more fruit than it can possibly bear. With- out a little help the unthinned tree will produce golf ball size fruit. In addition, the burden of holding an enormous crop without thinning can cause a tree to bust into pieces. The process of selecting and twisting off unwanted fruit is a very time-consuming process. In our orchard it means a full week of effort.
riety was better. It wasn’t until this change in flavor had happened three or four times that we realized it is not only the variety that determines the quality of a peach. In fact weather is even more important. In the final week or two before a peach is fully mature, water plays hav- oc on the final taste. During those final days, if a peach tree is exposed to wet conditions the peaches swell with extra moisture. The fruit will not only enlarge dramat- ically but more importantly the sugars and flavors will become watered down. This was never more obvious than last summer. The early peach varieties were exposed to very rainy periods just before harvest. We felt so strongly that the peaches were subpar that we posted a note warn-
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ing customers of this fact. Even the king of local peaches, Redhaven, was adversely affected. To our relief most of our customers still felt the peaches were great. The later
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Spraying continues through the summer but for the most part nature now takes control of seeing the crop come to fruition. This final step of maturing the fruit is the most important in determining how good the end prod- uct becomes. This is also probably the part that is least understood by the consumer.
One of the most often asked questions at our stand each summer is, “which of your many varieties of peaches do you think is the best?” In the first year or two of our farming we thought one variety was the very best. Then a strange thing happened. The next year a different va-
A peach tree (and many other fruit trees) will put on far more fruit than it can possibly bear.
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