Not one to give up when it comes to growing the fleshy nectar-drenched orb of the gods, I opted for Plan B, and planted my new peach trees under a cover – greenhouse cover that is. And because I don’t spray chemicals on my trees, there’s little I can do…or is there? Struggling peach trees: Charlotte, Salish Sea (Q-1-8), and Indian Free Growing Peach Trees in the Pacific Northwest But Wait…There’s a Happy Ending It takes a lot for me to cut down a tree, especially one I planted, but every time I walk by a gnarly, suffering anemic peach tree, it’s a painful reminder that my favorite fruit is being forced to endure a slow and ugly death. This year I will remove the other peach trees. The Nanaimo peach tree sets fruit in wet springs unlike most other of my peach cultivars. The only peach-leaf-curl-resistant tree I am keeping in the orchard is Nanaimo peach, because it is the only peach tree that consistently produces good-tasting peaches while remaining healthy-ish. John Muir peach tree: a very poor choice for the Pacific Northwest. In fact this year, Seattle’s rainiest winter on record, provided the perfect storm (so to speak) for all of my peach trees to succumb to severe and debilitating peach leaf curl disease, Taphrina deformans. Well, let me just say that never happened. Oregon Curl Free peach tree struggling to leaf out.ĭenial was my disingenuous playmate, always trying to convince me that next year would be different, that I just needed to give P runus persica a chance to take root, and gain strength and disease resistance.
Frost peach consumed by peach leaf curl disease.
While I try to never say “die,” the peach trees said it for me. The first couple of years seemed promising, but then insect borers, peach-leaf-curl disease, bark-gnawing vermin, and thatch ants with an appetite for flower buds and fruit did them (and my desire to continue) in. There I said it, because for thirteen long, relatively futile and fruitless years, I’ve tended almost every known peach-leaf-curl-resistant peach tree variety on the market with negligible results. Growing peach trees in the maritime Pacific Northwest is the pits. Fresh white peach Charlotte Avalon Pride peach: good and tasty, but few and far between
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