
Planting, Growing, and Harvesting Peaches
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Donna
Hello, I'm new to peach tree harvesting//care. When we moved into our home they had an established peach tree growing. This was the first year it bore fruit, so we were excited. But when we went to check there were already bugs//animals feasting before they were even ripe. So we weren't lucky enough to enjoy them this year. How can we we prevent this next year? I got to taste a slice of one good one, and it was delicious! I'd love to make peach cobbler next year!!
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As a housewarming present we were gifted two Redhaven peach trees 3 years ago in early summer, and had no idea how to care for it. But we followed instructions on the tag and planted it. The deer gnawed them down severely in winter 2016-2017 but a few branches regrew. Last year (2018) one of two sprouted a couple more scraggly branches and we erected a deer fence. We had a brutal winter so one branch died. This year three branches have reached about 8 feet high, on both trees and just one bore a lot of peaches so we thinned the fruits in mid-June. The peaches remaining were picked last week, and are tasty (about 20), but small (about twice the size of a golf ball). As there are only three branches on the fruiting tree and two on the non-fruiting I am wondering if to prune them I just whack the branches down to 5-6 feet high? As I have so few branches I don't really have any other choice for thinning and hopefully promoting new wood so I will get peaches again next year. I hope by doing so, branches will sprout from the pruned branches. Also, I read that fertilization should happen in spring and early summer but not during fruiting. But in our zone (6B) they bloomed in April so were growing fruit in early summer (June). Is it okay to fertilize now (late July)? I hope we can save these trees....
It is now April in my zone 7B. My red-haven Peaches started to produce fruit . my question is which month do i thin them?
Thin peaches about 4–6 weeks after they flower, while the peaches are still small.
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