June 27 2015 - Peach ‘Redhaven’Our first peach here at Critter Cove!!! Obvious
June 27 2015 - Peach ‘Redhaven’Our first peach here at Critter Cove!!! Obviously grown without chemicals, no pesticides, no fungicides, nothing. Even organic growers will spray their fruit with something. This is what food looks like when it isn’t grown with any of those things. So the next time you wonder why the hell the food in your grocery store is grown with “chemicals”, well, here’s your answer. No one in their right mind would buy fruit that looked like this. Research and locals told us that ‘Redhaven’ fares best up here, so it’s the first peach tree we planted. Fruit has very floral notes, particularly in the scent. This one was unevenly ripe, deliciously fruity in some areas, starchy and stiff in others. To eat, it was carefully cut with knife first, edible parts we gleefully devoured, and I bagged up the remnants for garbage. Anything that looks sick or ailing is not for our cold/worm compost - we don’t get hot enough to destroy pathogens.Not certain when we’ll get anything from the cherry trees. A lot of what we’re doing here is very experimental, so we’ll have some successes and some learning experiences. We planted two more peach trees this past winter so we’re excited that they’ll do well, although they’re ‘Belle of Georgia’ which do fabulously in the piedmont of Georgia. We’ll see how they do here in the mountains of North Carolina. -- source link
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