Re: Totally OT: stone fruit

pecan wrote:
Ginny wrote:
Went shopping yesterday and the new stone fruit is in. Yippee! I bought peaches, plums, necterines and apricots and had a feast fit for a king at home, just to make all you northerners green with envy. :)

The peaches were slightly soft and juicey, the plums were divine, necterines had a hint of tartness just the way I like them and the apricots were .... absolutely blah!! They had no aroma and no taste, not even a little bit. They looked beautiful with a lovely red blush, no blemishes but not one bit of flavour. Not one. I have never been so disappointed in a fruit before. Maybe the chooks will eat them as I really don't think I can. Thank goodness I only bought 6 as they were quite dear, and I had to get DH to try one in case it was just my piece of fruit. His description could not to be repeated.



Gosh...
I live too far from shops that stock those fruits, and the fruits they do stock are not awfully nice.

On the other hand... I made spicy peach jam from the peaches on the various trees around my property, fig jams and preserves two weeks ago, grape jam last week and this week (and I've run out of jars now), and I have two quince trees absolutely laden so I have to learn what to do with those. The pomegranates are ripening nicely, and the figs are going into their second harvest (even though I haven't picked all the first harvest figs).

That said: the apricot tree that gave me 600 fruits last year gave me only 6 this year! Let's see what happens this year.

Catherine

Don't worry Catherine I don't get to the shops very often either. As I haven't been in this house many years I haven't any fruit trees other than mulberries and grape vines producing. However the flowering peach has peaches on it this year and the two flowering plums also have small fruit. Don't think they'll come to anything but at least I know they will grow so come winter and rain I will be fronting up to the garden centre. I did buy two apricot trees, a feijoa and a cumquat for my Christmas present from DH but as yet they are in a shaded part of the garden still in their pots. I have planted some orange, lemon and mandarin trees but we will see if they survive summer. The ducks took to one lemon tree and striped it bare. I don't think it is going to survive :(

What do you do with the pomegranates?

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Ginny - in West Australia
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