I just checking all the peach trees and found that Carolina’s Gold and Old Mixon bloomed late so it spared from the late snow storm and blooming right now.
Carolina’s Gold
Old Mixon
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Glad to hear that for you @tonyOmahaz5
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I hope you get some peaches this year. So much better than store bought mush they sell.
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Not looking good in in southern Ohio as we had a couple of nights that hit 20 after most stuff had bloomed. But I still have my fingers crossed. I was not going to let the nectarines bear this year as it is only their second year, but it seems nature has decided to have some of my other trees join the party.
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Just north of you we had lows in the mid 20s. We’ve probably lost all stone fruit. Apples are doing wonderful right now.
S.E. Ohio
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We always get a little colder here for some reason. Our land sits a little lower that the surrounding terrain and I always tell my wife that we live in ‘frost holler’. Maybe I picked the wrong spot to start an orchard and vineyard. At least the grapes are a little smarter and don’t pop out at the first invitation.
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We got the temps on the 20’s here too. I must be close enough to you where I am. I tried covering my peaches with some sheets. We will see if I will get any peaches. I did see some of my apple tree blossoms got burnt some by the frost. The majority of my apples trees blossoms do not look like they were hit.
We got down to 28 but I wrapped my peach blooms with about six layers of frost cloth, I think they made it.
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What is frost cloth?
Agri-bon is a frost cloth, it is a light material that you can float over a row or low tunnel. Agribon | Mejor producción y mayor calidad
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Thank you. Actually this may be exactly what I have been looking for. I need something to cover my preach trees and I need to come up with some sort of contraption to cover my peach trees. This spring had been horrible as far as the temps being up and down. I’ve had to cover them three times so far. Now tomorrow night yet another temp down to 28. I can’t cover them again. The peach trees blooms have all dropped and now they are very small peaches forming.
I need to make some forms to use to put up or frames to use that material to protect them. Maybe a portable one with some sort of wheels to move around.
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Mike,
If you want to make a frame to keep the cloth off the trees, you can drive four T-posts at equal distance around the tree, so that they form a square at the perimeter of the tree. Then take some PVC pipe, or PVC conduit. If it’s not too big the PVC will flex a lot. I think folks have used 1/2" PVC, but maybe it was 3/4", I can’t remember which one.
Fasten one end of the PVC pipe to one T-post, then fasten the other end to the opposite T-post, so that the pipe goes over the center of the tree on a diagonal. Do the same with the other PVC pipe, so you have two diagonals criss crossing above the tree. Then your frost cloth will easily slide up and over the tree without knocking off blooms or fruit. It’s sort of the same principle as a small camping tent. Of course you’d have to anchor your frost cloth, depending on the amount of wind you get. Too much wind and the frost cloth will beat off blooms or fruitlets.
Once I tested a large shade cloth to see if it would keep birds off the fruit. It would actually slide over the tree pretty good. I wonder if something like that would also double as a frost cloth?
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Good ideas. I need to work on this this project this summer through the fall. Something I can store easily and put up rather quickly by one person, within an hour or so.