Peaches

You might remember my post from last year about my peach tree and how I was totally robbed of all my peaches by bugs and squirrels. Well the blossoms fell off the tree and all the peaches have just started growing.

This year I'm taking a more proactive approach and spraying it with "fruit tree spray", which as far as I can tell is an all-purpose insect repellant and fungicide. Before I sprayed it the first time I also thinned it out by removing a ton of peaches. I read online that they should be about 5-6 inches apart. By removing some peaches, a lot more energy is used to grow the remaining ones.

Spraying might prevent the bugs from attacking them, but I don't think this is going to stop the squirrels from stealing them. Last year when I only had a few peaches left on the tree in August, I was mowing the lawn and a half-eaten peach fell out of a huge tree in another part of my yard! Some bastard squirrel had ganked one and dropped it when I came around with the mower! I was pissed. Some people online are saying the only thing you can do about pests stealing fruit is to get a dog or a cat which isn't going to happen in the near future. Maybe I'll build some kind of electric thing to go around the trunk and zap the shit out of them when they climb up. It could make for some good videos.