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[jim <jmc1@epix.net>]

First I'd be wondering whether the basic problem was fall planting. 
Might your late peach trees have been set into clay?  Too often we
dig a hole plant the tree, fill with good soil/compost mix, and walk away. 
In clay or some clay loams, that hole will retain water with little percolation
and the roots literally drown for lack of oxygen.  Berming would help
if that is indeed part of the problem.

As to replanting:  decaying peach roots do leave a toxic residue.  Don't reuse the soil from that hole.  Apple roots are pretty tolerant, but why take a chance?

//Jim
www.cumminsnursery.com
 

Alan Garrison wrote:

last fall I planted a couple of peach trees that never did anything.
They have been planted in their spot for a year now and it seems I
have learned not to plant peaches in the fall.
I have ordered some new apple trees that I am putting in this year.
Any reason not to just yank the dead peaches out of their holes and to
put apples there instead?

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