To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hardy Peaches
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:50:08 -0600
I haven't been following this thread closely so Siberian C may have
been mentioned already and we've discussed them a number of times
before, but I just wanted to pipe up that here in zone 4 southwest WI
they've made it thru -30F several winters in a row with no visible
damage. Our last frost here is end of May (earlier than you) & first
fall frost is the same, about the beginning of Oct.
The seedling I got from Bear Creek before they went under all produced
copious amounts of fruit in their 3rd year. About 25% were good for
eating out of hand (if you weren't expecting a Georgia peach) & the
rest made wonderful wine & peach nectar.
Last year they didn't produce all that well because we had way too much
rain during flowering & my apples, peaches & plums had horrible
pollination rates.
mIEKAL
On Saturday, January 15, 2005, at 08:17 AM, Pat Meadows wrote:
Well, let me know if you get a peach that I can use, please,
and if you have extras.
We have seen -26 F here in winter, several times. Last
frost can be in late June. First frost is around October 1.