2025 Lawns & Gardens Thread. Making Lawns Great Again

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19 minutes ago, tamarack said:

That's impressive. 
Maybe they would survive at our 4B zone - median for winter's coldest is -24.  We were told that Reliance peach would make it here, and as that's my favorite fruit we planted a whip shortly after we moved here in mid-May of 1998.  Summers 1998 and 1999 saw great growth but the following winters killed back most of the increase.  2001-02 never got below -12 and the following summer we had 100+ sweet tennis-ball-size fruit.  Then Jan-Mar 2003 brought 12 mornings at -20 to -29 and the tree was dead, other than a weak below-graft sprout that showed up in June 2003 and died before first frost.

Your problem would be getting ripe fruit with your frost pocket and short growing season. There’s a couple of really early cultivars that may get you fruit in longer growing seasons…Halvin, Summer, Delight, and VE-21 come to mind. At the least they’re a tropical looking, ornamental tree in the landscape. 

KSU Chappell is by far the most vigorous variety out there, but not necessarily precocious. That’s a nice one to have if you want one to size up quickly. They can be slow growing the first few years so it’s nice to have one that at least looks like a tree. 

[dendrite]

I’ll add that there’s a guy growing them in VT (Buzz Ferver) that is right next to MPV airport. I know of a few people growing them in Quebec too. 

There’s someone in northern Aroostook near the border growing them, but he just planted them within the last few years. He’s lost most of his peaches as well so he planted those hardy Siberian C seedlings.