Peach Harvest 2013

Our little Peach tree loves to produce peaches. It's just a dwarf peach tree, but it puts on so many peaches that we have to do some major thinning.  That's hard to do, I'm always afraid we'll take off too many and not have any peaches. Well, not to worry, there's always plenty! This year we did more thinning than last year and the peaches were bigger.

This morning was the day to harvest the peaches. We got a couple of buckets worth, enough to make some yummy things to eat. We'll make jam, and since we got a dehydrator last year (and made some awesome plum fruit leather) we're going to try some peach fruit leather.

So, I think the jam came out great! Still waiting on the fruit leather, but I've been checking it and it looks good. Now I'm sure you want recipes, but since I'm so new to making jam and canning I follow the Ball Blue book of home canning. This peach jam recipe is the one that I used. Now, I did make one little change, I pureed the fruit. So maybe it's not really jam, I don't know, but I do know it tastes delicious. Still waiting on the fruit leather.

Oh, yeah, we have enough peaches left to make another batch of jam and probably another batch of fruit leather. I love that little tree!

Update: Well, the fruit leather came out great. I made a second batch on Monday, made it a little thicker...first batch was a little thin, but it was good.