Such pretty peaches, Everybody! 
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I have Loring and Belle of Georgia or Georgia Belle as its sometimes called so I can only speak to those.
Loring ripens late season, yellow fleshed, freestone and bigger than a baseball and about the size of a softball. Ripe loring skins easily 3 minutes in pot of boiling water / 3 minutes in ice bath and the skins slip right off. Great for cobbler with 1/2 or even less the amount of sugar called for in recipes. Its probably good for canning but iâll report back after my wife cans up peach pie filling. Itâs OK for eating out of hand.
Belle of Georgia ripened a little before loring and is about the size of a baseball maybe a little smaller, sometimes a little larger. Its white fleshed and freestone, great flavor for eating out of hand. My wife really liked them and second best to redhaven for her. My daughter in law liked them best. For me I kind of liked them also, once I got used to the flavor profile and the strange color for a peach. I dont know about canning because we eat them all out of hand.
Hope that helps
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Thank you, very helpful!
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Something caught my eye, not sure if those a pavers or not but I think I would remove them and have just bare ground under those peach trees. This forum has taught me, peaches need well drained soil to thrive. Those pavers are not going to allow the soil to dry out normally. I dont even have mulch under ours. And for heavy soil a lot of members plant peaches in mounds.
Hope that helps some.
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I put those there because theyâre in a chicken run. I have two other peaches in there, same set up, no issuesâŚyet.
Iâll remove them, what do I have to lose!
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I think youâre right. Weâve had record breaking rains this year.
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Does anyone here grow the Polly White Peach? I planted one last spring and it gave me 2 really big peaches. One was full of ants so that one was garbage. The other was a perfect specimen with very little red blush. It was some what soft so I harvested it. The flesh was very sweet but when I stated chewing the flesh it was so thick and leathery that it grossed me out. Spit it out instantly.
Could this be because it was so large or is that normal with this peach?
I use tile / pavers for some of my trees and the soil tends to dry a bit faster than if grass was underneath.
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Our peach season is now officially over. We finished the season with loring. Loring seems like a good cooking / canning peach. When ripe, 3 minutes in a pot of boiling water then 3 minutes in ice water and the skins slip easy. Plus ripe loring held their shape while being baked for cobbler and canning pie filling. Thatâs what I consider a good cooking / canning peach.
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Late blooming high chill apples are not necessarily the best for areas prone to late frost. Some peach tree varieties are more affected by frost than others. My June Gold blooms during the last week of Feb every year and over-sets without fail. Iâve grown the JG for many years. My latest blooming peach was hammered by frost both due to the poor resistance to cold and poor timing. It is better for a peach tree to have golf ball size peaches with the March cold snaps roll in than to be in full bloom.
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So I had quite a few red haven this year but I lost a good majority of them to bald faced hornets eating them on the tree. I picked some firmer and let them ripen on the counter and ate some ripe off the tree. The ones ripe off the tree were better flavored so preferable to us. How do you all keep the hornets from eating the fruit that is just about ripe? Doesnât seem like you should spray anything that close to consumption.
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Does anyone grow Muir peaches? I have a few suffering on flat ground and might move them to the hill this fall, but if no one likes them I might not bother. They are on Citation and EVERYTHING on citation dies in my lower orchard.
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Rising Star + Blushing Stars
Still have a few left on the trees. Rising Star tastes just as good, if not better than the Red Haven that started me on my peach obsession.
Blushing Star, a white peach with a tinge of tart. Not straight sugar sweet but sweet with a bit of the peach tartness that makes itâs flavor complex. I love it.
Planning on putting these 2 in ground by the driveway.
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Yes. Itâs your Citation Rootstock. This is what it does. Early dormancy. Search the forum and youâll find other examples of this happening.
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You and my wife would get along so well⌠Our Red Haven is her favorite peach, sheâs ever eaten. And sheâs eaten a lot of peaches in her life.
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Hello everyone! Who has Indian Free, Messina, Baby Crawford, and OâHenry peach varieties? I need cuttings for grafting. In return, I can offer various grape, pomegranate, and fig varieties
I see you are in Uzbekistan. May be difficult to get them through customs from the US. A lot of us are in the US and personally, Iâm not familiar with customs and imports outside of China, Japan, Thailand, and the UK. Your customs might be the same or more difficult than what most of us are used to