A Must Have Peach Variety If You Want Peaches To Eat After Dealing With Multiple Late Spring Freezes

Growing in high chilling hours zone can be quite challenging due to the late spring freezes that are becoming more frequent. This peach variety will not only bloom quite late compare to other varieties of peaches, but also will push out their blooms over the course of a few weeks to ensure you and your family with some amazing peaches to eat!

[@mikeoutdoors4729]

Very nice! Looks SUPER healthy. Thank you for the advice

[@penethia2]

Where did you get the covers for the trees. What are they called.

[@natbackyardgarden]

Amazon. TCBWFY 95" Hx80 W Huge Frost Protection Plant Covers for Winter 2 Pack. Currently unavailable so check from time to time.

[@mariankay6482]

I live here in Ama, too, Nat. It's a tough place to grow about anything but weeds. 🤣
Our neighbor's apricot tree has some fruit on it this year. Amazingly, there is more than we have seen in the last 5 years. The peach tree, right next to it, that has produced tons of peaches for the last 5 years only has a few peaches on the whole tree. They let us have whatever grows onto our side of the fence, so, I am excited to have some apricots this year and maybe a couple of peaches. I hope we can get them before the birds and the squirrels have too many. I wish there was a cover that I could place over each piece of fruit that would protect them from the critters AND the hail! So far, so good, though, right?
Oh, our okra produced really well last year. I hope it works out well for them this year. Our black eyed peas did well, too. Both of those wr planted in the ground. Everything I grew in planters died or didn't produce much. I was really disappointed in my tomatoes, except the grape tomatoes that I planted. That one produced really well! The others, not much. All of my squash plants came on and produced beautiful blossoms and a few made into squash. I got a couple zucchini and that was it. So sad. I'm planting all that I have, except tomatoes, in the ground, this year. I'm gonna see what happens.
Happy gardening in the hardest place to grow good things to eat!

[@natbackyardgarden]

Wow that is quite fascinating to hear about the apricots! They usually bloom a week or two before peaches and get wiped out so lucky you! I use nettings and Clemson paper bags to protect our peaches. Planting in ground will always be the better outcome! You soil will eventually build up after years of planting.

[@mariankay6482]

@@natbackyardgarden I know and it did start before the peach. It just kept opening a few blossoms a day and it would get cold and they wouldn't open as much and then it would warm and more buds opened and... You know how many freezes we had. I really am shocked to have any fruit on either tree after all those freezes! I'm very thankful for them, though!❤️🙂

[@mariankay6482]

@@natbackyardgarden I just searched for Clemson paper bags and the internet didn't know what I was talking about. Can you tell me a bit more about them? The apricot tree is so big that I don't think I could afford all that netting!

[@natbackyardgarden]

@@mariankay6482 www.clemson.edu/extension/peach/commercial/diseases/clemsonfruitbags.html I use these to bag each peaches individually and it works quite well. The ripen color won’t be as vibrant, but the taste will be almost as good. You can also bag them when they are a few weeks from full ripeness. Large hails of course will still rip them apart, but they offer great pests protection.

[@mariankay6482]

@@natbackyardgarden Thanks, Nat!