Anyone Have Peach Trees?

[Mortenson]

Someone likes my peaches this year. A rare fawn sighting.

 

[RGrizzzz]

Deer are all over there peaches in my yard. They don't even have to be close to ripe and the drops are gone. Rabbits seem to enjoy them as well.

If I don't spray I don't get peaches. Brown rot gets mine. I have 5 varieties, but I'm probably going to cut two or three down. I have a Glohaven on order. It's supposed to be one of the best for brown rot resistance.

 

[Bill]

And NJ is a leader too.

Just saw this. When I was a kid we were covered up in peach orchards. My older brother worked picking peaches and hated it because after a full of sweating with peach fuzz on him he said it was worse then hanging fiberglass insulation.

All those peach farms of my childhood are fields of plastic McMansions now.

 

[swat1018]

We have a couple peach trees left of our original four, Elberta's. Did have two Red Haven but they didn't make it. They have been in the ground 6-7 years now and fruit some are getting better every year. Problem here is when they finally start putting on a good fruit set they end up dying. Have never seem a peach tree around here last longer than 10-12 years when they get really nice they die off...must be the winters or something? I need to try and find agood variety that can thrive here for longer than 12 years.

That's just what peach trees do. I planted 4 in 2009, they are all shot. Have one still alive but it isn't producing, it's about to get cut down. I planted one from turkey creek a few years ago, it's bearing like crazy, but I planted 2 replacements this year because they don't last long.

 

[b116757]

I had three peach trees I planted in about 2003 they are all gone now and I won’t plant more but I don’t spray the fruit and they are rather short lived trees anyway.

 

[bigboreblr]

My wife loves saturn peaches. Would plant a single one otherwise. Been bug resistant, far as the leaves go. Got to say the 2 peaches have beaten out any apple tree for tree size. Got both from stark brothers, so who knows what the rootstock is. I spray copper in the early spring for peach leaf curl. The 3 yr old tree doen't have a lick of it. The 2 year old one has about 5-10% of the leaves curled up. No aphids, no beetle, no caterpillars this year or last. I do spray mostly malathion monthly. But, even before the spray no critters in mine.

NJ is amazing for farming. Outsiders would of never guessed it. By far my favorite state in the northeast area. Great fishing, decent taxes, tons of job opportunities. A coworker's father owned a chinese vegetable farm in NJ. Hunted there 3 or 4 years. Was a bit too easy...... bok hoy, daikon, cabbages, eggplant.

 

[SwampCat]

My wife loves saturn peaches. Would plant a single one otherwise. Been bug resistant, far as the leaves go. Got to say the 2 peaches have beaten out any apple tree for tree size. Got both from stark brothers, so who knows what the rootstock is. I spray copper in the early spring for peach leaf curl. The 3 yr old tree doen't have a lick of it. The 2 year old one has about 5-10% of the leaves curled up. No aphids, no beetle, no caterpillars this year or last. I do spray mostly malathion monthly. But, even before the spray no critters in mine.

NJ is amazing for farming. Outsiders would of never guessed it. By far my favorite state in the northeast area. Great fishing, decent taxes, tons of job opportunities. A coworker's father owned a chinese vegetable farm in NJ. Hunted there 3 or 4 years. Was a bit too easy...... bok hoy, daikon, cabbages, eggplant.

Do you not spray a fungicide throughout the fruit season

 

[bigboreblr]

Peach leaf curl is a tricky little guy. You gotta rid the tree of it before it grows for the year. Ideal spraying is in the fall after the leaves drop and before its below freezing alot.

I got lucky and sprayed it right before the buds showed much swelling. Peach leaves come out early.

Caring for peach fruit will be new to me too. I got some good insecticides like imidan. One neighbor covers his full sized peach tree in a mesh net.

Pruning peach trees is interesting too vs apples.

 

[Teeder]

My wife loves saturn peaches. Would plant a single one otherwise. Been bug resistant, far as the leaves go. Got to say the 2 peaches have beaten out any apple tree for tree size. Got both from stark brothers, so who knows what the rootstock is. I spray copper in the early spring for peach leaf curl. The 3 yr old tree doen't have a lick of it. The 2 year old one has about 5-10% of the leaves curled up. No aphids, no beetle, no caterpillars this year or last. I do spray mostly malathion monthly. But, even before the spray no critters in mine.

NJ is amazing for farming. Outsiders would of never guessed it. By far my favorite state in the northeast area. Great fishing, decent taxes, tons of job opportunities. A coworker's father owned a chinese vegetable farm in NJ. Hunted there 3 or 4 years. Was a bit too easy...... bok hoy, daikon, cabbages, eggplant.

That's the first time I've heard NJ described with "decent taxes" in the same sentence.

 

[b116757]

Some people institutionalized