Peach Harvest

Harvested our peach tree today.

Fruit was not thinned so it is mostly on the small side.

Total yield was something over 30 gallons.  20 will be frozen whole.  5 will be dehydrated by a friend and 5 is compost quality.

The fruit to be frozen is ripening in store bags.  When ready it will be washed.  Frozen whole then bagged and put back in the freezer.  It will mostly be used a smoothie base.\

The hope is that by picking early we avoided most of the bird and wasp damage.  This tree is called contender.  The fruit is quite sweet and delicious.  Lets see how the  bag ripened fruit compares to that ripened on the tree.







Update:  After a week or so the peaches were ripe.  Started to smell like peaches even.  Moved the paper bags to the deep freeze.

Fairly easy to use them for smoothies or baking.  A light thaw allows them to be cut and the stone removed.  A quick dunk in boiling water should remove skins.  Note that these are frozen unwashed.