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View & Purchase Raintree Products How to Grow & Use Our Edible Plants & Regional Growing Info. Pollination Charts Raintree Workshops Landscape Design Raintree Recipes Raintree Helps George Washington! Request a Catalog Message From Raintree's Founder Customer Service About Secure Ordering How to Contact Us Customer Compliments Meet Our Staff About Raintree Visit Raintree's new Garden Center Map To Raintree Search Raintree Raintree Home	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. Raintree Home info@raintreenursery.com - 360.496.6400