On the other hand, I really did want to plant a Loring peach but I just couldn’t justify having two trees producing the same kind of fruit in the same month.
It got so close. We now have two almost-ripe peaches inside on the counter next to Sunday’s tomato knockoffs. After taking out some smaller branches, the raccoon simply lopped off the top more-than-half of the entire tree by its weight, thus putting the August Pride back to about what it was when I planted it with about a third of the leaves it started the spring with.
That was a heck of a pruning job, Rocky.
Should have tracked down and bought some of those bird-netting tree-trunk-protection things I’ve seen a few times.
(p.s. But at least he left my tomatoes alone last night.)