FRUIT: An apricot glows with a golden color The taste of a nectarine is very similar to that of a peach, and it’s often difficult to tell them apart by taste alone. Both peaches and nectarines ...

Don’t be fooled by the heady blush of the peach or nectarine, as this doesn’t necessarily reveal whether the fruit is ripe. The best measure for ripeness is the aroma.

Add the peach, nectarine, apricot and cherries and stir to mix. Pour into chilled ice-filled glasses and serve immediately. Serves 4 to 6. Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Brown Sugar Peaches with Ice Cream ...

The luscious apricot resembles a dwarfed peach in shape, skin color, and fuzzy-textured skin. This mini-powerhouse low in calories and loaded with healing properties is a guiltless treat.

I mound that mixture atop the peach, nectarine, or apricot, then bake them. But if you don’t want to do even that much work, this recipe of 10 Minute Broiled Peaches is so easy. Simply drizzle the ...

Apricots, cherries, nectarines, plums and peaches are nearing — or are already at — their juiciest, ready to grace your table in cakes, tarts and crumbles.

Today, unbeknown to you, that fruit being sold as an apricot may actually have some peach in it; or a nectarine may have plum. A fruit may be given one identity for farming, another for shipping ...

It’s a naturally occurring variation of the peach, and is believed to have been cultivated thousands of years ago in China, where peaches originated. Nectarines typically come in white and yellow ...

— Nigel Slater, "Ripe" A close relative of the apricot, cherry, peach, nectarine, and almond (!), plum's season runs as early as May and extends through October in some regions.

For peach and nectarine trees, you should remove 50 percent of last year’s growth. Fig, apple, pear, plum and apricot, remove about 20 percent of last year’s growth.

Thin out peach and nectarines to produce larger fruit during the next two to three weeks. Thinning, or the removal of fruit by hand, is an important step in growing larger and higher-quality ...

Peach, plum, apricot, nectarine, apple and pear trees require thinning to produce good fruit. The sugars that make fruit worth eating are produced by the tree’s leaves, and those leaves can only ...