The stone fruits are all but done because the fruit fly got most of the peaches. We have been having daily orange or mandarin juice for many months (since July). I find it easiest to leave the fruit on the citrus trees and just pick what we want when we want it but as summer rolls on I have found the fruit fly attack the valencia oranges which are later and have a thinner skin than navals. To beat them at their game I stripped the tree this week as they will keep for quite a while in the fridge. When I say stripped, I picked all of the fruit I could get from the ground. I am at an age when climbing ladders is no longer wize.
Sounds like paradise to me!
ReplyDeleteAll we had was apples and due to the dry heat they were no pleasure.
Climbing ladders, I was too "old" at age 5 ;-) As in: never a wise thing for me.
The apples are another story. More on that on Friday
DeleteI love home squeezed oranges. Ours are not ready yet, but looking forward to getting some before the birds get them.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised as I thought most citrus ripened in winter. I hope you get them before the birds.
DeleteGood thinking Joan Elizabeth, one step ahead of those pesky bugs. Fresh squeezed orange is the best ✨
ReplyDeleteThere is something distinctly different between fresh squeezed and stored. Fresh squeezed definitely tastes better.
DeleteThe birds can have the rest.
ReplyDeleteI doubt the birds will take them even though there are often birds in the trees seeking out bugs. What will more likely happen is the fruit will drop to the ground (which is how I harvest the high navel oranges) but in this case will have a bad patch where the fruit fly maggots are burrowing in.
DeleteThey look delicious.
ReplyDeleteI assure you they are.
DeleteThis makes me miss the citrus fruits we had when we lived in California.
ReplyDeleteYes that would be something to miss. I bought a box of the most amazing strawberries I have ever eaten at a roadside store in California.
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