Belle of Georgia

ETXfigs

ETXfigs

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I got this Belle of Georgia peach tree a year ago at Walmart on sale. I think it was like $20. I put it in a 5 gal bucket and didn't give it much attention, besides when I would feed and water the figs, I would give it some. This spring because it was in the 5 gal bucket, the wind was knocking it over and a couple of unripe peaches fell off, so I put it in a 15 gal nursery pot. We got 6 ripe peaches and would have had more because a couple got knocked off early, but they are the best peaches I've ever tasted. They have a white flesh and taste different than grocery store peaches. I don't have a refined palate to describe the taste. I have not grown a lot of peaches but I can recommend Belle of Georgia.

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I have a massive peach tree, but the bugs always invade it and I end up with no peaches out of 1000's.
Not going to fight them and more and more going to feed them peaches any longer...it's coming down.

Sad...we love love love peaches!
 
When I first moved to GA I thought I could grow peaches, nectarines, plums, etc. I mean it's the peach state after all. Well, for 4-5 years I could not get a single piece of fruit off any of those trees. I sprayed for peach leaf curl with a dormant spray and all the fruit ended up being infected with some insect and fruit dropped off the trees. One spring I was spraying and a good gust of wind pushed the chemical drift into my face and that was enough. I yanked out all the trees because I was just wasting time and space. Lane's Peach Orchard is 10 minutes away and if I wanted peaches, I could just go there.
 
I’ve heard they were very hard to keep pest, critter and disease free yet we have two. They were on sale for $18.99 each so we’ll try but I’m not going to try terribly hard….lol
 
Peach trees do sound like too much work. My sister in law has a huge peach tree and it produces hundreds of peaches but not a lot of good peaches. They get some black stuff on them. I wonder if growing them in a pot like a fig tree is the way to go. I am going to prune this one a little bit and keep it compact. I will probably up pot it next spring. Seems like less maintenance. I mentioned this in another thread, we live by a big lake on a peninsula. There is water in 3 directions. There is no habitat for 4 legged critters in 3 directions. Downside is there is swarms of mosquitoes and gnats and the soil is sand but critters don't bother the fruit.

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With all the problems growing peaches makes me wonder just how much spraying of pesticides and fungicide it takes for the commercial orchards to get those pristine fruits
 
I love all stone fruit. I've only ever tried growing plums here and the Japanese beetles destroyed them. I thought it would be the same fate for all stone fruit but my neighbour is growing peaches and seems to be ripening them. Maybe

So man fruit trees I want to grow. Hmmm
 
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