Doesn’t look like we have a general peach thread for the year. Here’s a few that I picked today.
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How do they taste after the rain we got?
Your peaches look so clean. Beautiful.
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Beautiful looking peaches. Nice job growing them. I have been looking at the Winblo peach for quite some time to plant.
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Winblo was excellent. Clayton was a bit washed out, so I’ll probably use the first round for pies.
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I think it’s a great one to have.
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I would have to figure out when it ripens. I already have a Redhaven and Contender. They ripen within about 10 days of each other. I need some breathing room between ripening times if I plant another peach tree.
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My Lars Anderson is loaded this year, after nothing last year. They’re almost ripe, some falling from the tree. My Vetern has fewer peaches, but not close to being ripe yet. Zone 5 Montville, ME
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Clayton peaches were the first peaches I sold when trialing varieties to determine what to plant on a large scale. I opted for Redhaven instead of Clayton. Planted Norman as the next one before Winblo gets ripe. I chose Redhaven for name recognition.
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This was my best peach year ever. This forum gets the credit for suggesting I try Infuse to keep the brown rot in check, since I was never consistent enough with Captan.
Contender remains my favorite.
Desiree and Redhaven keep me fed until it is ready.
Now I just need something super late…
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These peaches look great. I had looked at the Lars Anderson peach to put in my orchard. I did not know anyone that actually had one growing that could give me some first hand " how does it taste" advise.
Welcome to the Growing Fruit site btw.
They are delicious Mike. This is my second Lars Anderson. The first lasted about seven years and then something took it out. My current LA is four years old and absolutely loaded with fruit. I thinned about 75% of the fruit in the third week of June. I’ve kept it about seven feet tall with an open vase structure. In fact I just sat down to breakfast after preparing a large cookie sheet of cut peaches for the freezer. There is close to a bushel of fruit almost ripe on the tree. I would plant another if I could find a source here in mid-Maine. Thanks for the welcome to the site. I wish I had known about it earlier as I have lots of different kinds of fruit. I’m harvesting plums now. The blueberries are almost done. As you can see (if the picture comes through) the tree is about 10 feet in diameter. Be well.
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Here’s my Veteran. 3rd summer and I got 3 peaches. The tree is pretty stunted (about 5 feet), and I figure I should probably have removed the peaches in spring to let the plant grow a bit more, but I couldn’t wait. I’m in zone 5 in Canada so peaches are risky up here, and any winter could be its last.
Not a lot of info on this site (or online either for that matter) about Veteran so I figure I’ll give my take. The flavour is very good, and the peaches are super juicy, but the skin is quite thick and pretty much inedible in my opinion, though my son seems to like it. They’re also billed as freestone though they seem pretty clingstone to me. If I had to do it over (and I might) I would go with something else like Contender which seems to have a lot of positive reviews.
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For me, Veteran is more bud hardy than Contender. I have lots of cold hardy varieties and Veteran is the most consistant producer. I think I’ve got at least a few peaches on Veteran for 8 years in a row in Ohio. Yep, skin is thick. I usually get 13-15 brix on Veterans. 13 is the base line for what I consider a very good peach.
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Here are my Saturn donuts. I thinned well and they ripened after a week of rain. Large but taste dilutely.
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Agreed. Veteran’s buds withstood temps of 22F during first pink this spring, while some my sour cherry buds and a few apples were toasted.
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PixZee dwarf peach still ripening, this tree was planted in a 20 gal pot in the spring. Didn’t thin any fruits which are size of a large plum.
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The white peaches are from my unpleasantly bitter Indian Cling seedling. Beautiful fruit though. Grayish ones are from the pêche du vigne sold by Arboreum.
Interior of the pêche du vigne:
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I had read that Indian Blood and Peche de Vigne might be the same, but from your post it sounds like they are different, and the French variety is tastier.
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Nothing super exciting, but a solidly good peach. I think I originally got this one because it was marketed as being resistant to bacterial spot. But it doesn’t seem to be any more resistant than other peaches I grow.
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Keeping the Nitrogen levels up is important in helping a peach tree resist Bacterial Spot. Low vigor trees are more susceptible especially on sandy soils.
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