AM - I saw the Deer Cr. nursery was all cleaned out! I missed the bargains - They had some awesome stuff there. Hope the fruit stand stays.

I had two 40 year old Italian Prune trees I tossed away more fruit than I could eat, dry, or give away for many years. Now I have one left - Still too much fruit to deal with, but there's no other tree I have that is lower maintenance or more productive. The oriental plums are fine for eating fresh, but tend to be clingstone. European plums (and Italian prune) require very little maintenance after they get mature and no spray. Oriental plums tends to sucker badly and needs a lot of pruning.

Stam - The Frost peaches just don't seem to work as advertised. But don't give up. Talk to Raintree about the new varieties of curl resistant peaches. I had two old Reliance peach trees that produced 10-30 full size shipping sized boxes of peaches every year - bigger and better than whan you get in the store. We canned and ate and gave away as much as we could possibly handle for many years (Tacoma area). Problem with peach trees is that the have a relatively short life, need some pruning, and curl spray program unless you can find a good curl-resistant variety. I've started over with two new trees - Just coming on for good production after 5 years . Cut the last old one down last weekend - rotten through the core and about to fall over. Fruit wood for the smoker now.