When is peach season in alabama

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Ask the Doctor. Bridging the Great Health Divide. Latest Newscasts. About Us. Contact Us. Gray DC Bureau. Keep in mind Alabama stretches from the Gulf coast to mountains of Huntsville near Tennessee; so it is a diverse climate. The information below is a general guide for the whole state. You will need to contact your local farm as their area may suffer.

The light green indicates light crops at the beginning or end of a season - dark green is when the bulk of the crop ripens and picking is best. These are the typical, historical dates that crops are ready to be picked or harvested in Alabama.

Farmers routinely mix varieties as a way to keep production going throughout the season. As one variety is waning production, others are coming on. He too, was sweating after Gov.

Kay Ivey closed state beaches ear as part of the effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. A lot of folks in Chilton County were relieved when the beaches were re-opened. That meant the beach traffic was going to come back.

Farmers are born with the optimism gene. In peach farming, work is year-round. The busy time is harvest, but the orchards have to be tended. The life span of a peach tree is 12 to 15 years. There is a constant juggling act of rotation of removing old trees and planting new ones in orchards.

If they are lucky, a farmer may get some production from a two-year-old tree, but usually it takes three to four years for the trees to make a good crop. A late cold snap or frost could wreck early varieties.

But the trees require a certain amount of chill hours each year. The cold weather allows the trees to go dormant, which is necessary to produce fruit for the next season. There are varieties, give or take, of peaches grown in the county. Each variety requires a different amount of chill hours. And as we all remember from fourth grade science class, without leaves there is no photosynthesis. There are other areas in the state with peach orchards.