That sounds like a plan. I grew peaches organically for ten years and it was a great deal of spraying and I still had a lot of rots.
Also at some point I looked into the environmental impact of the copper sprays I needed and concluded that things like Indar and Luna had much less environmental impact.
Flavor May is usually very high brix and highly flavored for me while most other early types aren’t great, although Glenglo is a quality peach here. However, if I was only planting one tree I would also go with something later, unless I was trying to reduce sprays. All early peaches I grow are more susceptible to split pits. .
How can frost knock out peaches and spare nectarines? Here, a few peaches are as frost tender as my nects, but peaches in general are much more reliable. This year my early nects were scarred by ovule damage that occured before they were even showing growth as a result of a sudden temp drop.
I don’t think it means anything. I did get peaches just not large crops. Probably more to do with the individual tree heath. But you never know, it could be with the way the temperatures were going up and down there was something better about the lack of fuzz on the teeny fruits.
Here peaches are not wiped out shortly after petal fall ff freeze is above 24F and I believe the nects I grow have less freeze resistance. I know the freeze damage number is much more variable in winter where hardening off varies based on winter temps.
While I know I said organic, I guess I was more referring to low impact and low toxicity.
I have two young daughters. By the time I get peaches, one of them should be old enough to truly appreciate the need to wash hands after playing out in the yard, but the other might not. My youngest is a thumb sucker, and I had an oral fixation through my twenties where I would constantly chew on pens in high school and through most of college, So if she takes after me, that’s going to be a hard habit to break. It’s hard to tell a 5-year-old that she needs to wash her hands constantly to avoid putting unwanted things in her mouth.
Another good reason for me to wait till I have more time and they are older.
Your kids play in the yard? Bravo to you. My wife grew up in an apartment building and “going outside” meant going to the pool so thats what we also did. But one reason why I have my “low impact” spray program is that there are lots of kids in the neighborhood. Sprays like Indar are not bug killers and are many orders of magnitude safer than e.g. Imidan.
yep. they are mud builders. they love making castles in the mud and covering them in old black walnut shells.
on a back corner of my property there is an old dead osage orange that bent over in an arch and formed a natural bench. they call that spot their clubhouse
it is pretty far back from the house. same picture, not zoomed in
