Posted on 04/06/2018 8:07:45 PM PDT by greeneyes
Elberta is probably right.
I have five different varieties of peach trees, and the Elbertas are always the last to bloom.
That said, I wouldn’t bother with peaches in zone 4. I’m in zone 5B - 6 if you believe the new zone chart, and I feel lucky if I get a peach crop one year out of three.
We used to be zone 5-newly assigned zone 6 - which I ignore. I stick to zone 5, and try to get zone 4, if I can. We have the same problem with peach harvests as you describe.
Where we used to live, was a peach tree, and we got a harvest about 1 in 4 years. With the blooms so nice this year, and the below freezing nights, I’m thinking those trees won’t have fruit this year.
However, the zone 4 that we planted last year hasn’t bloomed yet, so I’m hopeful we’ll get something. Elberta sounds right, but I can’t remember how many years before expected fruit.
Yes it was a good time to visit Florida.
Had a tree full of near perfect peaches last summer; apparently our local gray squirrels thought they were perfect too. In one night they disappeared. No sign whatsoever that there was ever a peach.
I wonder how to prevent that. We don’t seem to be able to get rid of all of the bushy tailed rats. I am thinking about putting some sort of mesh bag with wire frame around some to see if it would work.
We were able to protect grapes last year doing something similar.
The weather is now stunningly beautiful down here.
We’ll be home on the 17th, and I’ll have a couple days to get some stuff done in the garden.
Then I’m heading down to the Current River for a week of trout fishing.
I think that I could learn to enjoy a life of sloth. lol
I am already too slothful. LOL Have a good trip.
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