I love the farm life

[Spots]

The work is hot and hard. But the fruits of the labor are rewarding. This is a small sample of the bushel of peaches I picked today. Also got a quart of domestic blackberries. The freezer will be full this year.



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[Slappy]

Man that looks good.  I have a family farm I intend to plant an orchard in.  Hopefully they produce fruit eventually!  

[Spots]

Man that looks good. I have a family farm I intend to plant an orchard in. Hopefully they produce fruit eventually!

We have 4 peach trees, couple different varieties. Lots of domestic blackberries (no thorns), strawberries, 4 apple trees of different kinds, some cherry trees, and a plum tree. The orchard is finally starting to bear well after a few years and its so worth it.

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[Guest tdoccrossvilletn]

The work is hot and hard. But the fruits of the labor are rewarding. This is a small sample of the bushel of peaches I picked today. Also got a quart of domestic blackberries. The freezer will be full this year.







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In November 2005 my family bought 70 acres. We raise beef cattle. I used to have some cattle of my own but quickly lost interest and sold out to my father. He has 30 head total. We started out with 40 and have since culled down.

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[Pat]

Not bad, Spots. I envy you. Our peach tree never produces... what's your secret? Threaten them with your fresh-forged bladed weapons?

[gunwhatgun]

We palnted 2 apple, 2 plum and 2 cherry trees this year. I am really looking forward to picking fresh fruit one day,

[dralarms]

Spots, that looks like the start of a nice batch of peach wine. :D

[peejman]

Spots, that looks like the start of a nice batch of peach wine. :D

 

 

Peach wine....  some of my wife's relations have peach trees and made some peach wine a few years ago.  They thought it was wonderful.  It tasted more like peach kerosine to my unrefined palette. 

[Dennis1209]

A strange year for my fruit trees? I have four peach trees and one apple tree. Last year I had a great crop of peaches and apples. This year I got "two" apples and the tree looks healthy. One peach tree is loaded with peaches and about ready to pick. Two trees produced zero peaches and one has a few of them. I did notice earlier this year a couple of the peach trees had these little brown circles on the leaves that eventually dropped out leaving a bunch of perfectly round holes in the leaves. I don't know enough about fruit tree diseases to have treated them.

 

I won't even go into the deer that's breaking my branches getting to the fruit. I've even seen them standing on their hind legs and breaking the branches with the front legs.

 

Two years ago I bought a few blackberry plants from Burgess Seed Co., WOW, this year we harvested probably three gallons of blackberries so far and they all are slightly bigger than grapes, and speaking of grapes...

 

The plants are expensive to purchase and it takes time as you know before you get some grapes. Twice now I've planted them and they did nicely and grew to about 12-18 inches high, looking good. Both times I went out one day and noticed something just ain't right. Looking at where there should be my grape plants, there was absolutely "nothing". I mean not even a stem protruding from the ground! Based on the size of the plants and it was gone over night, I assume it was the zombie deer around here. Bummer!

 

Oh yea! I like the farm life too, but could do without the cotton mouths, chiggers, ticks and deer!

Edited August 5, 2013 by Dennis1209

[MacGyver]

 

I won't even go into the deer that's breaking my branches getting to the fruit. I've even seen them standing on their hind legs and breaking the branches with the front legs.

 

Sounds like a nuisance animal if ever there's been one...

[Guest Bonedaddy]

I planted two apple trees, recently. They sprouted from the flower pots that used to sit under the tree at the old place. Hope they produce like that'n did. Awesome apples. It does help to prune them fruit trees some each year. If ya start gettin' a buncha small fruit, top the thing and you'll get bigger but less fruit. A bad storm we had one Fall did some prunin' for us and the apples the next year were huge and tasty. I'd really like to get some nectarine, plum, blackberry and blueberry goin' here.

[JAB]

Mmmmm...peach fried pies.