Grow peaches in the garage

Peaches in a cluster on a branch this morning. They will need to be thinned as the fruit size will be small with so many growing close together.

My peach-in-a-trash-bag, stored-in-the-garage method is working perfectly, though everyone is full of a lot of questions. They bloomed about a month ago while we were having the below freezing temperatures -- the garage stayed a bit warmer than outside. I ran around pollinating them all with a Q-tip because, of course, there were no bees.

Three peach trees, along with a lemon, persimmon, and Asian pears in the back row. The neighbors have learned not to ask if I am having a plant sale.

It was incredibly simple to grow the trees in containers, wait for the leaves to drop, then move to the garage, where I forgot about them for 6 months.

That's the part that gets people: not having to take care of them for that long -- it just seems wrong.

My garage is attached to the house and there is just enough heat flowing in there to raise the environment a couple of growing zones.

I didn't even need to water the trees to wake them up. They flowered on their own about the third week of March -- whoops, I had better water those!

Now to see if I can get full-sized fruit.

Little Saturn peach, about the size of a blueberry. These are the flat peaches that are starting to appear in supermarkets.