I may transplant it this winter.Ģ008: moderate growth, leaves slow to appear, minor curl, no fruit setĢ009: A promising variety, very healthy, but no fruit set. 2, superb flavor, gorgeous burgundy flesh.Ģ009: minimal growth, leaves slow to appear, no leaf curl, minor fruit set (4 peaches), then fruit dropped. 12, thick fuzzy skin almost brown in color, juicy fruit, deliciously tart when shy of ripe, when ripe bursts with flavors of blackberry, plum and peach.Ģ007: Vigorous growth, leafed out with minor leaf curl, nice fruit set, harvested 6 small peaches on Oct. It may be a biennial producer.Ģ008: Vigorous growth, beautiful ornamental blossoms, no leaf curl, harvested 30 medium to small peaches Oct. Very nice peach.Ģ008: Transplanted from a garden where peaches had no place (gasp!) good growth three years later, no leaf curl, and two of my best peaches so far.Ģ009: Gorgeous healthy tree of 12 feet, a little twig die-off here and there, but seems quite healthy, but no fruit set this year, only 3-5 peaches currently hanging on. It appears to be a Frost peach, the mainstay of PLC varieties and I can see why. Frost Peach (last year called Mystery peach)Ģ009: Finally seems happy in its transplanted place, with nice leaf and stem growth and six large and delicious golden peaches picked.Not sure if this is the same as Royal Charlotte peach.Ģ008: Slow steady growth, slow to leaf out, minor leaf curl, no fruit set (Here’s the technique and best way to ripen peaches off the tree. I picked them a little green to thwart the raccoons, and they ripened very nicely off the tree. I was surprised to see they were white peaches (a favorite of mine). Again, this was a great backyard peach when I lived in Seattle.Ģ008: Steady growth, leaves good, minor leaf curl, no fruit set this yearĢ009: A big year for growth, stands about 12 feet high, and produced beautiful small peaches of high quality. No leaf curl to report and no fruit set either. Good growth from one tree, minimal from the other. I will not replant it.Ģ008: Planted bareroot this spring, leafed out with a bit of leaf curl, new growth moderateĢ009: I love this peach and am not giving up on it. The tree was planted bareroot one year ago and it succumbed to peach leaf curl this spring and never recovered. The following trees are peach leaf curl resistant varieties planted 3-5 years ago on Vashon Island, Zone 8, a moderate climate that ranges from 35-45 degrees daily in January to 55-75 degrees in August.Ģ009: Died. In 2008, I posted the peach season’s results for my young peach orchard, and will offer up the results for 2009 below. Peach trees from left to right: Indian Free, Q-1-8, and Charlotte (in the shade) Other than covert night operations by raccoons, no pest problems to speak of. Bees were having nothing to do with it.įour years since planting, the Charlotte tree produced its first peaches. It doesn’t matter how hot your summer is if your spring is cold and wet. Peach blossoms played to an empty house, attended only by raindrops and windstorms. Our unusually hot, dry summer would have ushered in a nice crop if only spring felt obliged to share the same temperament. Greetings fellow peach aficionados. Unfortunately, 2009 was not a bumper year for peaches here at tall clover farm (a pronouncement duly noted by the case of Yakima peaches resting at my feet). White-flesh Charlotte peach, this year’s star performer
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