How To Grow Peaches: 5 Easy Tips To Grow Lots Of Peaches At Home & When To Harvest Peaches

Learn how to grow perfect peaches in your backyard garden with these 5 essential tips! From planting to harvest, I’ll show you how to care for your peach trees and enjoy a bountiful harvest. Peqaches are one of the easiest fruit tree options for the backyard gardener looking to grow their own delicious fruit!

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hey there Gardener have you ever imagined strolling through your backyard plucking the juiciest most perfect peaches straight from your own trees well stick around because today I’m going to show you how to turn that dream into a delicious Reality by giving you my top five tips on growing peaches in your own backyard garden and as a sweet bonus we will be harvesting all of these peaches at the end of this video if you’re new here hello and welcome my name is Jara and I teach others how to garden and grow food I’ve been growing peaches for a few years now and it’s one of my absolute favorite fruit trees for the backyard home Gardener because of how easy it is definitely recommend them if you’re new to Growing fruit trees however there are a few things you need to know to grow them successfully the first tip is to choose the correct Peach variety for your garden based on the amount of cold chill hours you receive during the winter let me explain cold chill hours refers to the number of accumulated hours during the winter when temperatures are between 32 and 45° F in your area I like to use this website to check how many cold chill hours I receive in my area you put in your ZIP code it shows you a map pick the pin that is closest to you and it will say how many cold chill hours your area or your garden accumulated last winter a lot of fruit trees not just peaches require a certain amount of cold chill hours to break their winter dorcy basically make it think it’s gone through winter and now it’s springtime so now the tree needs to start flowering and then produce fruit if a particular fruit tree doesn’t get enough cold chill hours it will struggle to break winter dormy and flour using my garden as an example I got 120 Cold chill hours last winter therefore I need to select a low cold chill hour Peach cultivar a great option is Florida Prince which is what I’m growing right here it requires about 150 or less cold chill hours I didn’t get 150 hours but it’s still flowed and produced you just need to get close to that requirement if I chose one of the most popular peach cultivars grown in the state of Georgia for example it’s called Georgia Bell it would not grow well or produce for me if any at all because it requires 800 chill hours to break dormy I don’t get anywhere near 800 chill hours per winter I think the highest I ever noticed for my area was like 210 chill hours therefore Georgia Bell is a good option for colder climates the best thing for you to do is to visit a local Nursery that carries fruit trees that fall within your area’s cold chill hours here in Florida our nurseries are full of fruit tree varieties bred to require very little cold chill hours or do your research before purchasing a fruit tree online and tip number two peaches grow best in full sun and yes that includes you Florida peach trees bred to grow well in our state can handle our full sun these trees need ample sunlight to harvest the sun’s energy and produce an abundance of Peaches I do not recommend that you plant one in a spot that gets some shade or you will have less production tip number three plant your Peach Tree in a mound do not plant it at ground level actually this is how I plant all of my fruit trees I create a mound that is around 3 ft high and wide with the cheapest compost I can find at the store I set the root ball of my fruit tree in this mound planting higher up really helps with drainage I can’t tell you how many fruit trees I lost to root rot before I learned this trick especially if you’re in a rainy or flooding prone area I wish I could show you guys what this mountain looks like but I have these flowers growing right in front of my peach tree but I did build a mound that was like 3 ft tall over the years it will compost down a little bit and sink down so just make sure you do make that mount like three or even four feet tall that way it can compensate for that sinking down a little bit throughout the years and then every year I also get a free delivery of wood chips from Chip drop or you can ask your arborus and I use it to cover the bottom of all of my fruit trees with a good four or five inches of wit chips that will also break down over time and add nutrients back into my fruit trees tip number four is on managing common pests and diseases that you might get on your peach trees by spraying with horticultural oil during the winter preemptively treat your peach trees to prevent a lot of future pest or disease issues during the fall and winter when my peach trees go dormant and they lose all of their leaves I like to spray with horticultural oil every 2 to 3 weeks this will coat the entire tree and the bark to smother out various overwintering pest eggs and larvae that will repopulate the Garden in Spring horticultural oil also helps to treat powdery mildew rust and leaf spot a lot of times the spores fungus molds Etc that cause these diseases are dormant on the surface of the bark so spraying with horiculture oil helps to reduce them if you’re in a hot CL climate like me do not spray horticultural oil or any oilbased treatment during the summer it’s too hot and the oil will burn your plants so wait for cooler temperatures of fall winter and early spring I actually spray horticultural oil on all of my fruit trees as a preventative measure and I have noticed a huge reduction in a lot of the pests and diseases that wake up and start populating my Garden in Spring tip number five has to do with pruning your fruit trees this is going to hurt you more than the actual tree you have to heavily prune your peach trees right after you finish Harvest everything which is what I’m going to do after I harvest all of these peaches on this tree peach trees flour and produce fruit on New Growth not old growth and branches right now it’s May I’m going to harvest all of these and pre my tree down by at least half that might seem drastic but it is necessary if you want to pull the most production out of your trees any new growth that this tree grows starting now in may through my summer into fall and maybe early winter just up until this tree goes dormant it is what will produce the flowers and fruit next spring I’m going to heavily prune to encourage lots of new growth and also maintain the size of my tree I can’t reach the top of this tree to harvest fruit without using a ladder which is not ideal for the home backyard Gardener prune it down to encourage New Growth reinvigorate the tree make it easier to harvest and so it can fit in my small garden space all right so on to the fun part harvesting our peaches now every Peach cultivar is a little bit different because there’s like your standard orange PE Peach even some that have a little bit of like a red blushing pink or even there’s some white peaches but what I’m looking for is when the peaches start to blush or turn color this one right here is still like solid green but then like this one right here has started blushing so I look for the blushing ones and gently like squeeze it a little bit if I feel that it just barely starts to give way when my fingers squeeze on it then it’s ready for Harvest you don’t want to wait until they get like absolutely 100% right because then they have a tendency to get kind of mushy on the tree and have like a weird mey type of texture that I really don’t like so just Harvest them just as they start to give away a little bit and then you can put them on like your kitchen counter because they will continue to ripen up over the course of the next few days also the longer you leave this fruit on the tree the more Critters will come after them including pests like fruit flies and stuff like that so keep up with the Harvest to prevent a lot of those issues last year my tree did flower but I got absolutely no peaches and I couldn’t figure out why but then this year I found out at a couple squirrels we’re taking off the green forming fruit off from my peach tree I actually CAU them in action so that explains why I didn’t get any peaches last year so all the animals in the neighborhood will definitely come after your peaches I’ve seen birds Teck on them I found a woodpecker the other day pecking a hole into one to help with the squirrels I put out some peanuts so that would distract them for a little bit they would rather go after the peanuts and the actual peaches that did help a little bit but if I didn’t keep up with filling the peanut holder thing they would start coming after my peaches again another reason why I want to heavily prune this tree back is because I can easily fit some bird netting and stuff like that over this next time in Spring that will greatly help prevent the squirrels the birds everything from getting the peaches off my treat and as you’re checking your peaches every day to see which ones are ready for Harvest they all don’t ripen up at the very same time so it’s kind of staggered over the course of maybe a week or two it depends on the variety but try to like check every day and just harvest the ones that are ready because again you don’t want to attract the Flies Critters things like that today I’m going to harvest what I can here’s one right here this Peach is a little bit on the small side but it is so Juicy and Delicious peaches that get to ripen up on the actual tree tastes a million times better than anything you can buy at the grocery store like they’re actually juicy every time I buy a peach at the grocery store they’re really hard and crunchy that is not what a peach should be like this variety right here is Florida Prince I bought it as a 3 gallon size fruit tree and planted it here about 3 years ago it started fruiting the very next year so peaches start fruiting very quickly after being planted so I’m going to get the ladder and see what else there is to harvest today all right so here’s all the Peaches I was able to harvest today not bad for one day’s worth of harvest and there’s still lots more forming and growing and still ripening up on this tree I expect to be harvesting some more over the course of the next week or two hopefully my tips will help you grow an abundance of peaches and your own Gardens at home if you enjoyed this video and learned something new please give me a big thumbs up that helps out my my channel more than you know thank you for watching and happy gardening