Last peach harvest of the year.

[drew51]

I live in zone 6a/5b. I'm lucky enough to be growing Indian Free peach. A very old cultivar. An heirloom. Here harvest is late, The 5th Wednesday, I decided to harvest. it was later last year.


I harvested 71 peaches, amazing for such a little tree. Here it is next to a 50 gallon garbage can for perspective.


If you don't know Indian Free it is an amazing peach. It's a white peach with red coloration that varies from peach to peach and even year to year.


From last year's harvest

[Visceral]

That looks delicious. How old is the tree? I have a white peach also (Tropic Snow) I planted in February that I'm training now. It is growing so fast, I can hardly keep up with it.

[lauralou]

Those peaches really do look delicious!

[COGardener]

Looks great!

My havest was around a moth ago, love me love peaches and nectarines!!!

[drew51]

That looks delicious. How old is the tree? I have a white peach also (Tropic Snow) I planted in February that I'm training now. It is growing so fast, I can hardly keep up with it.

The tree is in 4th leaf, or 4th season. I have 2 peach trees, and 2 nectarine trees. Another favorite is Arctic Glo Nectarine. Here is Arctic Glo from this years harvest.

[Dave]

Andrew what do you use to keep the borers out of your peach trees?

[drew51]

Sorry been out of town. So far borers have not been an issue. The Indian Free has canker though, no borers in sight. Often it follows borer activity. I think the citation root stock is not ideal for my location. My trees on Lovell look good. The Indian Free tree should still last 3 or 4 years, maybe longer before it succumbs to the disease.

[JohnnyK]

Great looking fruit. Once my wife and I buy a larger piece of property we'll be planting some peach and nectarine trees. Your pictures are making me jealous.

[drew51]

I would lke to get a larger piece of property too. Many of my growing friends have over 30 trees. I have about 10. Another fruit I grow is Spece Zee Nectaplum. An interspecific hybrid. It's just OK, not great. I got 66 fruits off it this year. They are big nectarines, and the tree does well, so I'm keeping it. Here is this years harvest.
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...hoto/005_4.jpg

[JohnnyK]

That's neat. I've never had a nectaplum before, but if the flavor is just ok, I probably won't plant one. The fruit looks really nice though.

[Blackfoot12]

Well Andrew. The best peaches I have ever had came from Michigan.

I have a friend who grew up in Michigan. We were eating peaches one day and I was saying how good they were. She agreed they were good but said "They are not as good as Michigan peaches!" I literally laughed. I had never heard anything anyone talk about Michigan peaches. She said I'll prove it to you. Next time she went home she came back with a basket of peaches. They were the best peaches I ever had and I have tasted some very good peaches.

[drew51]

California is a great place, but for being so far north, we are lucky to produce decent fruit. The Great Lakes protect the area. I'm still harvesting figs! Pest pressure is low compared to the Northeast too. I swear the Indian Free tree I have produces the best peaches I have had. I have been eating one or two a day, and I'm in heaven. They are my favorite fruit. Well right there with raspberries, which I grow too! (some strawberries hiding in there)

[cjccmc]

I've had some very good peaches and nectarines from good grocery stores. How do the better home grown compare to the better peaches at produce markets?