5/13/10

When to Harvest Peaches

Peaches are minty green leading up to harvest time. But, just because the color changes from green to peach, doesn't mean that the peach is ready to be harvested.
UF Sun Peach Tree
Look for these other indicators before picking the peach:
  • Smell it. The scent should be very peachy. Before it's ripe, the scent is unnoticeable.
  • Feel it. It will give a bit. Unripe peaches are very firm.
  • Twist it. If you lift and twist, and it comes off the branch easily, it's ripe.
You can pick a peach prior to it ripening. Pick it a few days before you think these indicators will be present and bring them inside. Place them in a brown paper bag for a few days to ripen. This is how growers do it, except they put fruit into gas chambers instead of paper bags.

Down here in zone 10, the peaches are supposed to ripen in mid-May. Even with a record-breaking cold spring, the peaches are ripening just on time.

As always, the yorkie walked around the garden with me today.
Tinsel the Yorkie in the garden.
After some belly pets, she was on her way to dig a hole next to the rose bush.
Tinsel in the garden
I noticed the queen palm, the porch, me, and and the peach tree in this photo of her beautiful brown eyes.
Labels: at 5/13/2010 06:16:00 PM

6 comments:

  1. bart ahora5/14/10 6:21 AM

    Thanks for the peach tree advice. Any thoughts on what to do in the even to leaf curl? We had it a few years ago and I want to be prepared should it happen again.

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  2. Peaches, yummm. I'll add that to my list of future fruit trees to plant.

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  3. The question was how to control peach tree leaf curl. The answer is as follows:

    Leaf curl can normally be prevented with a single, well-timed fungicide application of fungicide, either in the autumn after 90% of the leaves have fallen, or in the spring before bud swell. For effective disease control the fungicide must be applied at the proper time, and the tree must be thoroughly covered with the fungicide spray.

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