Allotment Vegetable Growing |
Saturday 21 November 2009 Allotment Diary |
Vegetable Seeds, Plants, Fruit and Nut Trees |
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Peach Trees
Fruit Trees, Nut Trees and Fruit BushesIf you are going to plant a tree or bush, then it is going to be there for some years. So it's well worth spending some time looking at the different varieties and going for something that will be productive and providing you with a good crop in years to come. Time spent to prepare the ground properly will repay you many times over. Peach Avalon PrideThis outstanding variety represents the biggest advancement in peach breeding for many years as it appears to be strongly resistant to damaging leaf curl disease. Trees are self fertile with pretty pink flowers and bear delicious juicy large fruits from early August. Self-fertile, and grown on Montclaire rootstock. Price: £29.95 More Information from Dobies Peach Avalon PrideThis outstanding new variety came from a chance seedling found by a Miss Pride in woods alongside her property in Washington State, near Seattle. She noticed that it was peach leaf curl resistant and decided to propagate her own tree. Disaster struck when Price: £29.95 More Information from Suttons Seeds Peach : BonanzaGenetic dwarf Peach also been bred in California and makes a tree that is ideal for growing in containers. Like Nectarine Necterella it also produces a 'mop head' of full size leaves. Each spring the trees are covered in a mass of pink blossom, followed by delicious full sized fruits. Price: £26.99 More Information from Thompson & Morgan Peach : Peregrinehe best English variety! In March early pink blossoms provide eye-catching displays, followed by red flushed white skinned fruits from mid August. Price: £22.99 More Information from Thompson & Morgan
Please note that all prices and descriptions on this site are believed correct but should be confirmed on the relevant site prior to order. Please let me know if you find an error via the contact page Copyright Information: The Images, seed Descriptions and Titles on this page are used with permission of the copyright holders - Dobies Seeds, Suttons Seeds, Alan Titchmarsh Seeds, Thompson & Morgan
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