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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Not Quite Ready . . .

That's the best way to describe the fruit growing in the F&P orchard, which includes peach, pear, and apple trees.

While this year's fruit output is uncertain because of lack of rain and extremely hot temps, we're hoping for enough fruit to make a cobbler or pie. The peach trees are overloaded now, but none are ready for picking and quiet a few have already fallen off. 

This week, we gathered up most of those and placed them in a paper bag, hopefully to promote ripening.

And, when (and if) we get enough for Grenville to bake one of his specialty peach pies, y'all are invited for dessert. (Just let Grenville know who's bringing the vanilla ice cream.)

11 comments:

DeniseinVA said...

How wonderful to have your own fruit trees?

Birdman said...

Small town livin' is the only way to go... well, my way anyway. hahahaha

MadSnapper said...

yum yum yum, that is one yum for each fruit.. and yuuuummmy for peach pie... mother used to make killer peach cobblers and pear cobblers.. and apple crisp....

Lois Evensen said...

Mmmm, peach pie! I love anything peach. We have a peach tree that we can see from our dining room. We watch the squirrels come and grab the green peaches so never get any ripe ones for ourselves. In our case, watching the squirrels is entertainment enough.

Connie said...

It's hard to be patient once they get to this stage. Mmmm, pie!

Country Gal said...

Fresh fruit right from the tree how wonderful ! Thanks for sharing ! Have a peachy day hehe !

Montanagirl said...

Really nice that you have fruit trees! We have two crabapple trees. lol

Rebecca said...

Check out my recipe for no churn ice cream and you can make your own! But don't tell anybody, because then you won't get any.

Elaine said...

I saw on the news that the peach crop in Georgia is not doing good because of too much rain. A happy medium everywhere would be nice. When you do get some peaches and Grenville makes a pie, can't you just send my piece UPS?

jp@A Green Ridge said...

Forget the peach pie...make peach cobbler instead...OMG!!!!...:)JP

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