Georgia Gardening: Peaches - I have peaches!!, 1 by sterhill

sterhill wrote:
Every year the squirrels have stripped my peach tree. They pull off the small, unripe peaches - one after another - and take a bite and pitch, grab the next one and take a bite and pitch until the tree is bare. I have tried all sorts of remedies - nets, sprays, peppers, bags of soap, etc. - but nothing has worked... very frustrating.

This year the tree has produced so many peaches I have had to thin them out myself - which I really hated to do!

This is a dwarf Elberta I have had for about 5 or 6 years. Last fall I trimmed all the branches under about 4.5' and this spring I put the biggest squirrel baffle I could find around the top of the trunk. There is no tree close enough for them to jump on it. And jumping from the roof would be suicidal - not that that would stop some of them, but this is - so far - working.

I think I am actually going to harvest fresh ripe Georgia peaches - for the first time - this summer.