PEACHES & NECTARINES
(Prunus persica) Nothing
beats the flavor of a fresh peach ripened in your own backyard. Our disease
resistant varieties now make it easy for you to succeed. Now you can grow
great peaches in the Northwest as well as in most of the nation. We offer
self-fertile varieties which are of excellent quality. Many are resistant
to leaf curl.
Useful
Facts
HARDINESS: USDA Zones 5 - 9
SUN OR SHADE: Full Sun
PLANT SPACING: 15 feet apart
POLLINATION:
All the varieties we offer are self-fertile
HEIGHT AT MATURITY: 12 - 16'
LIFE EXPECTANCY: 20 Years
YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2 -3
METHOD OF PROPAGATION: Summer chip budding and T budding. Grafting
does not work well.
YIELD OF MATURE
TREE: 30 - 50 pounds
How To Grow
SOIL REQUIREMENTS:
Adaptable to many soils as long as they are well drained.
CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS:
Unlike apples, standard peach trees require heavy pruning to produce
well. Prune off old wood, always renewing branches, because peaches
bear on first year wood only. Prune to an open center vase shape or
trellis in a fan shape on a fence or wall.
LEAF CURL CONTROL:
Please note that even the leaf curl resistant peaches we offer will
get some leaf curl for the first few years. To control leaf curl, spray
lime sulfur when the buds first crack open in late December or early
January and then three weeks later. Or if spraying by the calendar,
spray once in late December and twice more at two week intervals.
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