Irish Peach

Picked and eaten straight from the tree today. Unlike early windfalls, just ripe. Skin okay, flavour sweet, acidity, very 'appley'. Crop 1.5kg this year. Crop 2-3 weeks earlier than 2010.

Blossom - Irish Peach

This was one of the first apples to bloom, and most spurs have now gone over.

Crop: Irish Peach

Lost most of the small crop to wasps. I picked one in the last week in July, and it ripened within a few days. This variety has a very small window of use, but is very early, just about ready in July.  Acid-sweet, very appley, slightly floury texture but not unpleasantly so at peak of ripeness. Skin on one a little tough, but not inedibly so. Fruit size a little small, but the tree is still little more than a maiden.

Irish Peach - set

I'm really pleased to see a good set on Irish Peach. This was one of the trees I rescued from the vandalised orchard on the smallholding; I was forced uproot it very late in the season, and it was touch and go whether it survived last year. It has set a good crop for a small tree this year.

Irish Peach: Blossom

The first into bloom for me this year, opening it's first buds on April 4th, well ahead of any other apple this year. Luckily it seems to have quite a long flowering season, and has managed to overlap with some of it's neighbours, so hopefully something will set.