We are getting a puppy.
Not really.
We are buying a peach tree. But I’m beginning to wonder if the experience is essentially the same.
We will be bringing home a creature that is just old enough to leave the nursery and just old enough to come down with a major sickness and the inability to tell us about it. We are incorporating something into our family that may require little attention, or more attention than my husband is willing to give it. {You see, he doesn’t like peaches. “Christmas is cancelled! And no more Easter!” He does, however, have many redeeming qualities.}
I, on the other hand, love peaches. So do our girls. And instead of these little hands being tempted to swipe peaches off my neighbor’s thriving tree, I am opting for purchasing one of our own.
I know that I prefer free stone, yellow flesh peaches, and my understanding is that leaves me five variety options for zone 7b: Cresthaven, Harvester, Jefferson, Redglobe, and Redskin. If any of these are ringing a bell to you as “the ones that die within a year from that nasty rot,” would you kindly leave a comment in the comment box?
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to search how to house train a peach tree.
