[NAFEX] Hardy Peach Question / Dennis Norton ?? - Anthony Curcio

mIEKAL aND qazingulaza at gmail.com
Tue May 5 00:12:01 EDT 2009


I just cut out dead Madison & Earliglo today. I was amazed at the wood  
on the dead Earliglo, dead for 3 years & the wood was still hard, not  
punky or dessicated.  The wood turner at our community was excited to  
have some prunus wood to turn into goblets.

Siberian C seedling still remains the only reliable peaches for me  
year after year.  I also have some Ecos seedling peaches from Oikos  
which aren't quite as hardy, I have yet to get fruit from them, but  
they have a similar look & feel as the Siberian C.  I don't remember  
the parentage of them tho.

~mIEKAL

z4b -25F (every year)


On May 4, 2009, at 6:41 PM, <dmnorton at royaloakfarmorchard.com> <dmnorton at royaloakfarmorchard.com 
 > wrote:

> Believe it or not, we just removed all of our peach trees!  The last  
> 4 winters have seen temps well below zero, sometimes as low as 20  
> below, that literally froze our trees.  Each winter over the past 4  
> we have lost an estimated 25% of our trees and decided that this  
> current cycle of colder winters were just too cold to try and grow  
> peaches here in a high density orchard.  We do have some PF 24's  
> that are planted next to the house that are still doing well and are  
> in full bloom now.  There are about 6 of them, but we originally had  
> 8 planted in 1995.
>
> Previous to that, back in 1992, we planted 600 trees that produced  
> fruit through 2006.  They began their decline in 2004 and we finally  
> removed them in '06.  They were predominately Madison, Red Haven and  
> Reliance and saw relatively mild winters up until 2004.  They  
> produced tremendously well for 10 years!   The rows ran East/West  
> and had a full southern exposure since no other trees were south of  
> them.  Our trees we just removed were in our North orchard and ran  
> north south with no wind break to the north.  That was probably the  
> wrong orientation for them and I would not plant peaches this far  
> north again unless the rows ran east west due to our experiences  
> with them.  Hope this helps!
>
>
> Dennis Norton
> Royal Oak Farm Orchard
> Office (815) 648-4467
> Mobile (815) 228-2174
> Fax (609) 228-2174
> http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
> http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
> http://www.revivalhymn.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anthony Curcio
> To: 'nafex at lists.ibiblio.org'
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:03 AM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Hardy Peach Question / Dennis Norton ?? - Anthony  
> Curcio
>
> I know it is a bit late but we just realized we did not order any  
> peach trees. Does anyone have input for hardy peaches ? Dennis I  
> noticed Royal Oak is in Harvard, we are in Elizabeth about 45 min.  
> due west. Can you tell us what peaches have performed best for you ?  
> Do you have trees available or a source to offer ?
> Thank you, Anthony z4b
>
> Anthony P. Curcio
> CEO
> VasSol, Inc.
> 833 W. Jackson 8flr.
> Chicago, IL 60607
> Phone- 312-601-4431
> Fax - 312-601-4451
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