Planting Peach Trees

Everybody loves juicy peach fruits, and many people say that peaches are their favorite fruit. Even if you are not fond of peaches, you must be enjoying the peach fruit toppings on desserts. If you want to enjoy excellent quality peaches, then consider growing organic peach trees in your home garden. Besides the succulent fruit, peach trees will also add beauty to your landscape with their beautiful pink blooms.

How to Grow a Peach Tree?

• Before you start planting any trees, first you need to select the right peach tree varieties for plantation. There are many varieties of peach trees, some produce peaches which have white flesh, while some produce peaches which have golden flesh.
• The best considered peach tree varieties for growing peach trees are Garden Gold, Honey Babe, O'Henry, Cresthaven, Red Haven, and Elberta peach tree. Each of these varieties have their own uniqueness. Elberta peach bears sweet, juicy, freestone fruits, the fruits are large and can be eaten raw. Honey Babe peach tree is very popular, as it grows very slowly but bears fruits quite early. The fruits of Honey Babe are nice golden color, sweet, firm and are freestone which have an excellent taste. Garden gold bears soft and freestone fruit, and even the average fruits are large in size. O'Henry fruits are large, firm and freestone which can have white or golden flesh, and they have a wonderful flavor. Red Haven is a strong tree which has large creamy yellow flesh bearing fruits. Cresthaven peach tree has fruits which are golden yellow with a smooth skin.
• So, decide which variety of peach tree you want to plant in your yard. Peach trees are grown from pits, and take quite many years before they bear fruits. So, many gardeners prefer to buy a young tree from a nursery, as these young trees are couple of years old, and within a year or two of planting them in the yard you will have fruits growing on them.
• Once you have your young tree, pick a site in your yard which receives full sun. Then dig a hole big enough for the tree, and fill the deep hole with plenty of decomposed compost. Then mix it properly with garden soil and carefully place the tree in the hole and gently spread the roots out in the hole. Then bury the plan with soil, and tamp the soil down. Then water the soil thoroughly, you can add some more soil if necessary.
• Keep watering the plant regularly, and provide it with a good fertilizer a week to ten days after planting it. Then again after a month provide fertilizer. Use 8 ounces of 10-10-10 fertilizer according to the directions mentioned on the package. A 2-3 year old peach tree should be provided fertilizer of ¾ pound in the month of May and March. If the tree is 4 years old or older, then provide a pound of fertilizer in the month of May and March. This will keep the tree healthy, so that it keeps bearing fruits.
• One of the common peach tree diseases that gardeners experience is leaf curl, where the peach leaves become red or purple, distorted and start to curl. If this happens you need to apply a fungicide, in fall, when there are only 10 percent of leaves on the tree, and during spring, before the buds begin to expand. You can also provide the tree with extra nitrogen using a fertilizer to help it recover faster, and maintain its strength.

So use the above planting tips and follow the care instructions properly to maintain a healthy peach tree, and within few years you will have juicy fresh home grown peaches!