How to Grow Peaches
Peaches are delicious fruits that many people love. They’re also best eaten freshly plucked from the garden. Most people grow peaches from peach tree samplings from the nursery, but you can try your hand at raising peaches from their seeds. Here’s how to grow peaches of your own, right in your very own backyard.
Materials
Shovel
Compost (Tips on how to make compost)
Gardening knife
Stake
Watering can
Fruit fertilizer spikes
Oil fruit tree spray
Insecticides
Procedure
Find a spot that gets full sunshine.
Dig a very deep hole, and thoroughly mix compost with the soil to ensure that there will be nutrients for the peach tree.
growing peaches
Plant the peach seed or the peach tree sapling in the ground. If you bought a sapling and it came with a peat pot, carefully slit the sides of the peat pot with a gardening knife, avoiding damaging its roots. This will allow the roots of the peach tree sapling to spread out into the ground later on. If the sapling came in a burlap bag, remove the burlap bag. Bury the sapling up until where it was buried in the bag it came in.
Soak the soil where the sapling is planted thoroughly.
Stake your peach tree sapling early on in its life. Once it reaches a foot high, it will need support as saplings can be very vulnerable to the forces of nature.
Fruit fertilizer spikes specially formulated for fruit trees are the best for peach trees. Apply one or two pounds worth of fruit fertilizer twice a year on your peach tree once it becomes four years old. The best time to apply fertilizer is during the months of March and May.
It gets a little tricky when the peach tree starts bearing fruit. The more the peach tree bears fruit, the smaller the fruits will be in general. That is why you have to monitor which fruits will look more successful in growing bigger than others. However, you should just let peach fruits come as they are in the first few years of the peach tree’s life.
Apply oil fruit tree spray each spring, before the buds open. This will prevent insects from damaging the fruits.
Peach trees are highly susceptible to infestations and diseases, so it’s important to use pesticides regularly. Make sure to wear protective gear and to follow the instructions when applying said pesticides.