If your dwarf peach is the variety Bonfire (also known as ‘Tom Thumb’), you’re also undoubtedly growing it for its maroon leaves suffused with glowing coppery highlights. This peach typically requires 400 chilling hours. The early-ripening fruits are ready for harvest in late spring or early summer, about 3 months after the pale pink flowers appear. Noted for its productivity and vigor, ‘Bonanza’ yields bumper crops of red-blushed, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches on dense, 6-foot shrubby plants. Patio Peach Varieties Many patio peaches bear plentiful sweet fruit.
If the chilling hour quota for a tree is not met, it will not yield. Chilling hours are essentially the number of hours between 32-45 degrees Fahrenheit in a winter season (hours exceeding 60 degrees Fahrenheit are subtracted from the chilling hour total). Peaches, like all fruit trees from temperate regions, need to remain dormant a certain period of time in winter produce flowers and fruit, so before choosing any peach, you must determine the number of “chilling hours” it needs. The planting hole should be as deep and several times as wide as the root ball. If you garden in sandy or clay soil, work several inches of Fafard Premium Natural & Organic Compost into the plant’s future root zone before planting.
After favorable weather returns, move it back outdoors for an early spring display of showy pink flowers and a summer crop of sweet, juicy peaches.ĭwarf peaches also make first-rate garden plants, where winter-hardy. When winter (or a spring cold snap) arrives, simply carry or wheel the container to a cool, frost-free location indoors. Give your dwarf peach a large (10- to 20-gallon) container and coarse, humus-rich potting mix, such as Fafard Natural & Organic Potting Soil, and you’re good to go. Where they literally break new ground is in their adaptability to containers, which puts them in play in gardens that were formerly too small, too cold, or otherwise ill-suited for home-grown peaches. Patio peaches – like their full-sized kin – appreciate full sun fertile, well-drained, moderately moist soil and shelter from bud-damaging early-spring frosts. They’re available from a number of specialty growers, both in their natural shrubby form and as short-trunked, grafted mini-trees. Ideal for containers, urban gardens, and patios, these dwarf peaches bring big possibilities to the small (or large) garden. Bonfire is the most popular patio peach with its maroon-purple leaves, small size, and sweet little peaches.ĭo you want to grow your own peaches, but lack a place for a full-sized peach tree? This is not a problem, thanks to a slew of recently introduced peach tree varieties that mature at a shrubby 4- to 6-feet in height.
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