This morning when I was looking at the grapes, I spied a furry tail hanging out of a peach tree. … [Read more...] about Busted
The field crew harvested this year' s first peaches on Tuesday June 26th. It was a light harvest and over the next few weeks the yield's will increase. … [Read more...] about Peach Harvest Begins
Our crew is putting fruit bags on one peach tree that will be un-sprayed from this point on. We purchased some Clemson Fruit Bags https://www.clemson.edu/extension/peach/commercial/diseases/clemsonfruitbags.html to protect the fruit from insects and disease after early season sprays were applied. This method of pest management is a good idea for home fruit growers who only have … [Read more...] about Putting fruit bags on peaches
Even with the late frost and cold temperatures the peach trees still needed to be thinned this year. We decided not to mechanically thin them since about 30% of the buds had damage. We waited until they set fruit and are manually thinning them to one peach every 6-8 inches. Thinning immature fruit will allow the remaining fruit to develop into higher quality fruit. Less … [Read more...] about Peach Thinning
The field crew began pruning peach trees yesterday. The crew will work on this over the next couple of weeks. We prune the peaches after most of the other fruit crops at the station since peaches can be injured if pruned too early. … [Read more...] about Pruning Peach Trees