peaches

August and September not only bring the first month of school but hundreds of backyard peaches.  We found out this year that our homeowner’s association no longer allows planting behind our property line because it’s not “firewise”.  Apparently, they did not see the gangly weeds that came right up to our property line prior to our planting of said peach trees.  Needless to say, this year’s harvest will likely be our last.  So we made the most of it.

Jack was my little helper for the first round.

A couple of weeks later, I avoided burnout by enlisting the rest of the crew.  We canned over fifty jars of peaches (after giving away dozens and dozens of them to friends and neighbors) and still had a few left over for four jars of jam.  Yum.