Peach Harvest...

Three years ago I planted a teeny tiny peach tree in our backyard. My husband was convinced that it would be a decade before we ever saw any fruit on this tree. It was literally a stick about 3 feet tall when I planted it. Over the three years I have babied the tree and taken so much care to protect and nurture it. This year it was covered in blossom which became baby peaches. I thinned the peaches by about half and felt very bad doing so. In retrospect I could have thinned them even more to get larger peaches. This week we harvested the ripe peaches and there were 80 pounds of them. Had I thinned them even more they would have been very large peaches. I am so happy and know that next year thinning them is not a bad thing.