I have Peaches !!!!!!

[Ridgerunner]

I normally don't spray my fruit tress with anything other than dormant oil. They are not perfect but usually I can still get a pretty good harvest as long as I don't have a late frost after they have bloomed. This year I lost practically all my plums to brown rot. I think the wet weather I had contributed to that. The brown rot just exploded when the plums started to ripen. The two trees were covered too. Usually my plums do really well. Not this year. I have zero plum jelly, jam, or chutney.

My peaches have also been hit pretty hard with brown rot but the weather was a lot drier when they ripened. It do not explode like the plums did. Brown rot hits stone fruits. But when I cut into them practically all my peaches have a worm around the pit. Again, the trees were covered. I picked gallons of young fruit off my two trees to keep the weight from breaking down the branches. I managed to cut out enough good peach from them to make some jam and even got enough to include in chutney, but I should have had a tremendously larger amount with a lot less work cutting out the good stuff.

Next year I intend to pray a fungicide to combat the brown rot and an insecticide to combat the worms, actually I think they are maggots instead of worms. My problem with that is that the weather is so rainy and windy that time of year I have a lot of trouble getting a day to spray.

I agree with the others. Those peaches look great. They told you how to pick them. You are going to enjoy them.

 

[Nyboy]

After picked should they ripen on counter or fridge ?

 

[lesa]

On the counter...

 

[Smart Red]

On the counter if eaten within a couple of days. In the fridge if you want some not so ripe all at the same time. Remove a couple a day for counter ripening.

 

[Beekissed]

How's everyone's peach trees doing? I just noticed mine are simply LOADED with blossom this year...very pretty. This is the first year they've been pruned properly and fed something nice, so it will be interesting to see how they do and how they taste. Usually their taste is pretty bland but I'm hoping the addition of composted cow manure, leaves, old straw and wood ashes will improve the flavor.

Even some branches that I unsuccessfully pruned~over head and I couldn't reach them well enough~are lined with buds and bloom about to pop. You can just see the thin strands of bark still holding these branches on...

 

[Nyboy]

Mine are way behind yours. I could not believe how many peaches I got the same season I planted them. I purchased them from a very good nursery and paid full price lol. last year some thing ( sure squirrel stripped 2 peach and 1 pear tree)

 

[Nyboy]

Glad they are not flowering yet have cold spell this weekend.