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back to those early peach us, it is still a challenge and or join us on August 3rd leisurely day in the orchard! farmers that eventually a joy! for our Peach and Wine Check our periodic updates
trials that our predecessors did. This year, for example, there were two nights in January that dipped to minus eight degrees. Those twonightsofextracoldcost us about fifty percent of this year’s crop. Peach trees’ fruit buds are actually on the trees the year before they produce and at that temperature half of the buds were killed. Several years ago, the temperatures dropped to minus eighteen. That year almost every tree over six years old died. They froze to death!
Most local residents realize how extremely wet this year has been! Peach trees can not tolerate wet
roots and will die with as little as two days of standing water. High ground or hillsides are great locations to plant trees as the natural drainage helps to avoid this water issue. In our case, we are not lucky enough to haveeitherofthoseterrain features and many of our trees are paying the price. At this point it looks like about fifty of our trees will shrivel up and die.
So is our glass half empty or half full? For us it is half full! We still have plenty of healthy trees that are producing plenty of beautiful peaches.
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