Peaches

There are various varieties. I have white peaches. They have a delicate and wonderful flavor vs the yellow ones that are stronger, love them both.

New trees need shaping the first few years into a vase shape. Typically, they are trimmed in early January in No San Gabriel Valley. They benefit by heavy but proper trimming. Keep this little paperback handy How to Prune Fruit Trees by R. Sanford Martin (1944).

They are susceptible to peach leaf curl. If the fungus is light, it usually burns off as the days get hotter. However, the fungus never really goes away. It is a good idea to do dormant spray once in December and again in January before the leaf buds break open. Lime sulfur is less toxic than copper sulfate.

They are also prone to coddling moth that will drill into and ruin each fruit. Spray regularly with organic spinosed. Follow the label directions.

Fruit needs to be thinned or there will not be much of it. The latter part of April is a good time because fruit is big enough to see which are already weak. The fruit protects the seeds. With less fruit, more energy is put into more meat around the fruit seeds that are left. Thin as much as half, leaving one every 6-8 inches. It is hard to see that much fruit go to the ground, but I know that we usually do not need that much fruit anyway, and what matures is much better quality.

White peaches are great sliced with raspberry sorbet and a touch of mint.

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