Managing peaches on trees/Carlos Pueblo
Three weeks
ago, I ran into some peaches harvest at Michelle’s backyard at Austin
,Texas. A
few of them were ready to eat when I picked them while most of them
were about one
or two weeks shy of ripe; therefore, I took them home for a
treatment,
by dusting salt and dry plum powder on the surface, pickling. It was very
tasty and
reminded me very much of my life at my homeland. I gave precedence to
have my
monthly routine to Austin, yet the left over 100 plus peaches were gone.
instead I
saw two young peaches on her neighbor front yard with scarlet peaches
hanging on
branches. This neighbor is a very good gardener who manages a nice
garden on
the other side of the fence with tomato, beans and peas, and some other
vegetable. He
did mention something about managing peaches on trees in order to
obtain the
successful harvest.
I didn’t pay
very much attention to his experience until I saw his peaches hanging
on his two
trees. He said something about getting rid of small fruits before growing
up on every
fruit branch. I did see two gardeners working on a plum or peach tree
at the
Koko-en Garden by Himeji Castle. Originally, I thought that they were doing
manual
pollination for the lack of honey bees. Now, I understand that is for the
management
of fruit numbers.
Several
years ago, I passed by a farmers’ market in front of the Union Station in
New York
City and saw venders provided batches of peach branches with bracts
ready to
bloom. I thought of peaches and regretted the waste until someone on
a cruise
trip told me that might be a reason to control the peach numbers on a
tree. The
farmers like to make sure each remaining fruit to have enough nutrition
from the
tree.
I am not
quite sure if I can manage Michelle’s 10 years old peach tree, a tall one
with some 20
feet above ground; however, I may manage some lower branches
next year. I
may get a new peach tree from the neighbor’s yard after the falling
nut
developing to a new peach plant. I may not have the opportunity to enjoy
the harvest,
yet someone in the future will be benefit from my effort.
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