Peaches
Peaches yield delicious and juicy harvests, enhancing seasonal variety and nutritional benefits
Contender
Prunus persica Late. NCT 544 (Winblo x complex parentage of North Carolina selections) DJ Werner, JR Ballington and DF Ritchie intro, Ag Exp Stn, Raleigh, NC, 1988.
Extend your peach season with this high-quality variety that is proving to be hardy in northern Maine. Large round bright red and yellow freestone fruit with a slightly raised suture. Firm melting aromatic yellow flesh.
Growth habit similar to Redhaven, but fruit ripens 3 weeks later. Resistant to leaf spot. Because it blooms quite late, it might escape late spring frosts. Z4 maybe Z3.
Cresthaven
Prunus persica Mid-Late. MI Ag Exp Stn, 1963.
Very round medium-large yellow fruit with a red blush and yellow sweet juicy flesh. Freestone. Ripens later than Redhaven but before Madison. From the Haven series of peaches bred by Professor Stanley Johnston (1898-1969) who grew and studied more than 20,000 peach trees in Michigan. Z5, but worth trialing in Z4.
Madison
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Raritan Rose
Prunus persica Early-Mid. JH Hale x Cumberland. NJ Ag Exp Stn, 1936.
Medium-sized white-fleshed peach is aromatic with sweet exceptional flavor, especially for a white. Freestone. Skin is rose red with a green creamy background. Ripens around the time of Redhaven or a bit earlier. High-yielding trees are very cold hardy. Resistant to bacterial leaf spot. It’s rare that we come across a hardy peach we haven’t offered before, so we’re quite thrilled to finally have this one! Z4.
Redhaven
Prunus persica Early-Mid. Halehaven x Kalhaven. MI Ag Exp Stn, 1940.
Medium-sized round fruit with beautiful red and golden-yellow skin and sweet firm fine-textured yellow flesh. Non-browning. Excellent for eating, freezing, canning, shipping. Countless Fedco customers call this their favorite peach; it’s also the world’s most widely planted freestone peach.
Hardy buds; trees have produced crops in southern Aroostook County orchards. Vigorous highly productive disease-resistant spreading trees are tolerant to bacterial spot. Z4.