L. Hayes

Ed Hoffman wrote:I haven't post for a very long time, but I love good ripe peaches! These pictures are from a Red Haven peach tree I had in my back yard in Parkland, Wash. in 2004. It was my first try growin peaches I bought a little bare root tree from a nursery in our area and it didn't take too many years before this happened. It was like the once in a life time boom year. I was off traveling the world and my son sent me an email sayin you better get home the peach is about to collapse.
It's pretty impressive for our area, but as you can see is absolutely possible. The Red Haven seem to do the best here. They aren't any good for canning, but when they are tree ripened they are those juice drippin off your elbows kinda peaches!
The tree died a few years later, and all my peach stealin neighbors really missed it. I keep tryin to grow another miracle tree, I kept losing them to Leaf Curl. I have another that did very well, but it collapsed under all the weight of another dream load two years ago. It was doing just fine had a lot of peaches on it, then one day they all just exploded in size and it was a near total collapse of the branches. I cut it all back to the main trunk of the tree about 5 ft off the ground and it has grown back beautifully.
I'm hopin we've had enough frost nights this winter and even some late snow seems to make it produce better.
We'll see.+

 

I'm nearby in WA, have pruned and picked other people's peach trees, and really want to have my own, so I want all the knowledge I can get about growing peaches.  Peaches are so good for the body.  It would be fabulous to let them ripen on the tree!  Besides the juicy, eating peaches, I also want to grow peaches for canning... to have their sweet goodness in Winter, like right now!

Thekla, you are wise to research thoroughly what is brewer's yeast today. I notice our Co-op has brewer's yeast that says it is the better, healthy sort, but so many products I used to get are made by companies that have been bought up by Nestles, Kellogg's, et al. The ingredients have changed, too, so I don't trust them anymore. I'll be researching, too.

(Thekla McDaniels) On the length of time B Vitamins work... in humans, about 5 to 6 hours effective as bug repellent (VB1). I would put Brewer's Yeast in AM and PM feedings to try to cover day and night 24 hours during the buggiest time of the year. Hopefully, it does not change the taste of the milk!

To Thekla McDaniels.... decades ago, Brewer's Yeast was the true by-product of brewing beer. The brewer's yeast available today is produced in molasses. Hopefully, to the keener sense of smell of goats, they can still smell the molasses! Experiment with it, taste the milk; if the brewer's yeast is put in their grain with a drizzle of molasses, maybe the milk won't pick up a B Vitamin taste. I'll ask my daughter about this. She did most of the milking for 6 years while I sterilized glass jars and made goat cheese. The biggest change in taste of milk was always from being around a buck. (hormones!) We'd like to have goats (American Nubians) again, but need a goat dairy cooperative to handle everything.

Yes, Raven Sutherland is spot on! If goats are fed the real authentic brewer's yeast, thereby supplying B1, it is in the smell of their skin in 30 minutes. This works on humans, too, of course! My mother took a B1 tablet 30 minutes before going out to the garden, and the gnats and mosquitoes didn't touch her. This would help tremendously to incorporate brewer's yeast in the goat feed twice a day when they eat. PS: Our cats LOVE brewer's yeast.