Our first Peach this morning.

[difflock]

Way Hey! 

Wor Peach is well into leaf again, well at least at each end of each branch!

About 20mm of green leaf showing.

Fingers crossed.

[Rough Hewn]

Great recipe:
A 1litre kilner jar
120 young fresh peach leaves
20 cubes of sugar
Bottle of red wine

Chuck all ingredients in to the jar.
Top up with eau de vie.
Or over proof calvados.
Leave for 3-6 months minimum.
Tastes like peachy port
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[difflock]

And voila!, the Peach coming into blossom this morning.

Even the lost-all-its-leaves, and-I-thought-it-was -dead  Brown Turky Fig in the other corner, has produced fresh buds and a couple of tiny figlets.

Aint nature wonderful.

Fingers crossed.

P.S.

I deliberately underwatered to attempt to persuade both plants to send down roots to find the water, that is down there in abundance, in the subsoil, but deep below their planted at floor level, level.

P.P.S.

The bloody Avocado or Mango stones (and I really cant remember which now) that were merely carelessly stuffed into the soil, sprouted, refused to die due to my underwatering and are now threating to take over.

An Avocado I could work with, but a bloody Mango tree, inside  .  .  . 

marcus

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I had the peach tree out over winter. 

 

Simply couldnt bear the annual cycle of anticipation, then the excitement and then the inevitable despondency as the fruit never quite developed into anything other than pleasing on the eye. 

 

Bastard beat me - I do wonder if I caved in too soon though. ?

 

Had some considerable success with limes, not so much the lemons. 

 

Figs and grape in abundance though ?

[difflock]

Ere! some o us are a lot closer to the Artic Circle than you southern Cornish Riveria softies.

We got a couple of figs, but due to my harsh deliberate underwatering, the Fig has generally shed the semi-ripened fruit.

I imagine I was too slow with the hand pollination of the Peach last year, so only 1 fruit  properly set.

No limes or lemons.

And the grapes are wile slow getting away, might need to shovel on a few kg of granulated lime outside to sweeten the dour essentially acidic ground(i.e. all cut out peat bogs where the house is built) to their taste.

And considering investing in a 20 tonner of limestone chips levelled across the front of the ground at the house, both for asthetic reasons and to hopefully influence the underlying water table in the locality.

Considering putting in a mezzanine floor (using galvanised weldmesh, but dont tell the Wife!) to better utilize the 2 story high, fully south facing, otherwise wasted glazed space at our front door.

But I got a 3rd "G" Wagen to MOT first!

Fingers crossed.

Marcus

[difflock]

see image taken this morning

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

On 23/02/2019 at 11:57, difflock said:

to better utilize the 2 story high, fully south facing, otherwise wasted glazed space at our front door.

Can we have a look at it?  I remember some pics from previous...

 

I had the peach dug in within the far end of a cow shed which I'd glazed top and SE face but it never really established with any vigour (to be fair, I think it was too far away to receive full the attention it deserved and needed.)  

[difflock]

see this image;

Photo taken looking due north, i.e. glass facing fully due south.

Edited February 25, 2019 by difflock

[difflock]

And, perhaps?

[Khriss]

23 hours ago, difflock said:

see this image;

Photo taken looking due north, i.e. glass facing fully due south.

So. ... yr jus Posh realy....... K