Tart cherries: Pitted and froze 30 quarts. Measured after
pitting. Left the rest for the birds.

Peaches: Just finishing up. My 2 Reliance were late
this year. 2 bushel in the milk house for
canning and lots given to family members.

Pears: At least 4 bushel from Summercrisp. Still
finishing up.

My children decided to "earn money" by walking the neighborhood selling peaches and pears. 25 cents each
or 5 for a dollar. They are doing well.

My first crop of stanley plum (13 plums) is not far away as totally colored up. The Canadice grapes are loaded
and sweet. Not quite colored up enough yet.

What I will do with all the apples and Bartlett pears next
month is a mystery as they are loaded with branches bending. Best crop I every had on my Northern Spy which is always a shy bearer as it blooms when the rest of my apple varieties are about done blossoming.

I do give praise to the Lord for such a blessing as this fruit crop is turning out to be.

The cattle really like any extra Summercrisp pears that fell from the tree! I might as well turn the windfalls and overripe fruit into beef.

This is great to hear, especially after last year.
I hope you thinned your fruits appropriately so you wont get sucked into biennial bearing next year.

-Eric

I'll be honest...i'm getting sick of stonefruit. I just sent probably 30 pounds of plums to my wife's work.

Thinking of getting yet another refrigerator.

I prefer frozen cherries to fresh. They are awesome. I can tell that a lot of people like them because the grocery store i buy them at always seems to run out of the frozen sweet cherries and nothing else.

Glad others are having a good year.

Your point on thinning is good advise. I always thin my peaches at least once in mid-june and often do a second thinning a week later to correct leaving too many on.

This year was crazy as the apples and pears had 2-3 fruits set per cluster so they needed thinning too. My daughter and I spend about 1.5 hours per tree hand thinning each tree. We quit after thinning only once. No time to go back a second round.

My peaches could have been thinned better for bigger fruit size but the flavor is good.

My biggest issue is not having refrigeration for all the fruit. We got a new refrigerator two years ago. The old one was fine but my wife decided it was no good since I owned it before we were married. All married men know that anything you had before marriage will disappear soon afterwards as the ladies like to shop.

Anyway I wanted to keep the "old refrigerator " just for fruit but my wife forgot and had the delivery people take it away.

Time to can, freeze or share the crop with those we can.

It's actually getting me worried. Next week supposed to be in the 90s. That will bring the Stanley plums ripe, and the Galas are a week away from picking. I'm eating them off the tree already.

Harvest refrigerator is full of vegetables!

[do they rent refrigerators?]

Now our bartlett pear is a whole different story. Fire blight set in early in the season and is that stuff ever mean. No pears to harvest this year from that young tree..just hoping it survives.

Only a few cherries on our Meteor and none on the bing cherry tree. In fact, have never seen a berry on the bing. Are they male and female, or do I just have to wait a few years for it to mature and bear fruit? Beautiful, tall, willowy tree but no fruit since planting it.