The Peaches Are Coming!

When My Beloved and I got married eight years ago, my colleagues from Western New York sent us a gift certificate for something from a garden store to mark the start of our growing love. Isn't that sweet? We chose a peach tree (because MB is a peach!).

Unlike life with MB, life with the peach tree has not been untroubled.

It has suffered from Peach Leaf Curl; it's not planted in a very sunny place; because our lot is very sloped water and nutrients run away; and it has never borne much fruit. Every year, we have harvested about a dozen small peaches that were sweet when I left them on the tree long enough (I tend to get impatient with fruit) but were always diminutive and few.

Well, welcome to 2007!

Eight years seems to be the charm. This year, the tree is simply groaning with baseball sized fruit, some of the branches literally weighed down to the ground with ripening fuzzies. The peaches are simply beautiful, bright golden yellow with a rich blush of pink. You can see from the picture that they are still just slightly green so I figure it will be another week or so until I can clamber down the hillside to harvest our first bumper crop of peaches from our Wedding Tree.