As a result, your peach tree had received enough chilling hours to trigger blooming in mid-February this year, and got caught by the relatively late severe freezes. The tree will be fine.

Some fruit trees that normally bloom in late winter and spring are blooming now. Recently, a lady who had been out of town noticed that her peach trees were blooming when she arrived home.

Question: Our peach trees are in bloom. Does that mean we should prune them at this time? Answer: Enjoy the fall blooms and delay normal pruning until January or early February. Early leaf drop and… ...

Q. My peach tree is in full bloom and I just saw a weather report that hard frosts are expected next week. Will this damage my tree? A. You are not alone. Many of our trees here at the college are ...

There are two peach orchards on Severn Road. One is a 100-home development, the other a 1,000-tree farm. Nearly two decades ago, the two orchards were one, a 127-acre farm owned by the Boyer family.

During the winter in endo-dormancy, the tree tracks temperatures just above freezing to monitor the progress of the winter. This tracking of cold temperatures is called “chilling”. If you have ever ...

Gardening: Certain late-blooming varieties of peaches do well in region Jan. 28, 2021 Updated Thu., Jan. 28, 2021 at 2:45 p.m. A row of peach trees are seen at Walter’s Fruit Ranch at Green ...

MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice on peach trees, nun’s orchids, delphiniums, camellias, maple trees, liriope, ferns and peace lilies ...

Peach and nectarine trees flower extremely early in the year, so to enjoy their flowering display and prevent blooms being damaged by frost, move potted trees under cover from mid-winter.

These traps are hung in the trees a few weeks before the flower buds open. They need to be replaced in July to control the second hatch. Two traps per full-sized peach tree will suffice.

We have apple and peach trees, and every year except the year we had the drought, our peaches are sparse but they look fine. By the time they are ripe, they fall off the tree. They are rotten ...