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["Toni Pralle" <toni.pralle@gmail.com>]

>By the way, my Reliance peach had a bumper crop this year.

   Peter Drevniok, Gatineau, Quebec - zone  5.>

 

My one surviving peach tree not only had the 27 baby peaches I counted earlier in the summer..........it produced over 50! I know the chickens/birds got some because I saw the pits on the ground. I had planted two different varieties, Reliance and Contender but one struggled so this spring leafing out and flowering I cut it down about 2 feet off the ground. I had hoped It would shoot some new growth but it didn't. Now there is growth coming from the root. Are those grafted or should I let this new growth turn into a tree? I think the survivor is the Reliance and the cut down one is the Contender. I am SO tempted to plant another Reliance. My gardening success for the past 2 or 3 years has been dismal. Between the rabbits and the late spring blizzards all my trees resemble bushes.

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Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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