Testing Our Peaches

Despite some sunshine on Friday the temperatures never recovered from the overnight low of 5.1°C producing the lowest average daily temperature for August that I’ve recorded of only 11.0°C.

The afternoon was pleasant enough and on a visit to the plot I picked some raspberries and found a couple of ripe Victoria Plums. To add to a fruit salad we decided to test our homegrown peaches Avalon Pride.

 

Now looks can be deceiving as the peaches look ripe and ready to pick but like everything else this year getting fruit to ripen is easier said than done. The peaches weren’t ripe and need a few more days of warm and sunny weather to complete the process. Still our bowl of raspberries, plums and a few greengages went down a treat. Home grown fruit just cannot be beaten.