re: #232 MsJ

I did not know peaches grew in that zone. We have had three pear trees but they haven’t survived. The city planted one on their property along the side of our property. It is marginally surviving (we water the shit out of it trying to keep it alive).

I don’t grow it in my yard, it is way too cold (I am north of you about an hour outside of Detroit). I got a sapling and have had it now for about four years. It’s beautiful now…not huge or anything. We bring it inside every fall and leave it outside during the summer. Lemon trees like hot weather. Our biggest deal with it is managing to keep it alive through the winters as it is really finicky. This year, it looked beautiful until like April…then we let it get just a tiny bit too dry and poof! no more leaves. It came back beautifully but we were very bummed. No lemons this year.

Oh yeah. Northern Ohio has some great peaches especially all up around Lake Erie and south of that maybe 80 miles. It all depends on not getting too late a frost though. If they get to blossom and then bear fruit you can get a hell of a crop. And like the ones my father grew, they were small dark red skins almost maroon on top and then to a light red orange on the bottom.

Found an image of the type I am talking about.