This is just a small sample of the fruit collected from one of my trees. The taste of fruit straight off the tree is so jucy and delicious…I swear you’d never buy rock hard fruit from the shop again. These are a cross between a nectarine and a peach. Mouth watering! We’ve been drying some and making this lot into roll-ups for the kids. Healthy snacks.
The parrots and birds beat us to most of our fruit- particularly the plums. The Satsuma plums usually fare a bit better that is mainly because there are so many of them!!
We have a big problem with birds too so my hubby, dad and brother built a massive wire enclosure which also has the chickens on the end so i can let them in to keep the weeds at bay. Best thing we did. We have calculated that the fruit we got this year (3 years after building and planting) has already paid for the enclosure. We’ve been making fruit wraps in the dryer…so yummy. I love the nectarines.