The fruit business

With our currency making muscle all over the world makes all the hi-tech stuff prices drop like over ripe apricots and unfortunately the export prices also. A friend of mine who runs a business in office equipment talks of all the specials running. DVD's, printers, laptops / notebooks, scanners, CD players, external harddrives, etc. Unfortunately with the luxury the apricot / peach canning industry prices all are going down. Like a cliff.
Maybe my trees knows what is going on and they just didn't flower and the few that did, didn't do it with passion. A flower here and there. Real sort of lazy stuff. Why? I am not sure. They got a real good punch of fertilizer at the end of last season - not overdoing it - just enough. The peaches which is in total overproduction are carrying fruit as if it is the last season. A lot of thinning is done. Not a great site for a farmer driving past a orchard with most of its fruit on the orchard floor.
The vines never looked better. Good growth with lots of possible bunches. I allready sprayed twice and will have the third spray on next week. Also have to cover the peaches this week. Maybe even start with fruit fly control. I just hope the gardeners in town - if you only have one type of fruit tree - please do fruit fly control. It doesn't cost much but makes a huge difference to the surrounding farmers. They, the fruit flys, will allready be very active and with the amount of small gardens with fruit trees there will allready be a over populated fruit fly colony inside the town.
We still busy planting the last poles and hopefully will be finished by the end of this week.
The green fig season also starts and I will be picking my green figs. It must sort of be big without having a hole in the centre. If you have any, I am interested in buying.
The irrigation is also running smoothly and the orchards and vineyards really looks healthy and strong. Hopefully we do get rain to continue this excellent start to the 2010 season.