With their exotic scent and juicy flesh, it is difficult to beat the taste of a perfect ripe apricot or peach. But how many shop-bought punnets have you thrown away because the fruit simply did not ripen? When you grow your own you don’t have that problem. You can harvest your fruit when it is at its best, not wait days or weeks for shop-bought fruits to soften on the window ledge.
Growing apricots and peaches can be a bit risky, but most of the risk comes from frosts. Increasingly though, we are seeing more hardy varieties and improvedbet, especially as climate change means the risk from frost will likely recede earlier in the year.
