Planting more trees than can be cared for or are needed results in wasted and rotten fruit at harvest. A mature tree will produce an average of three bushels of fruit. Determine when peaches should ripen. If you take vacations the first two weeks of August, don't plant varieties that ripen then. See Table 1 for help in determining when peach cultivars normally ripen.
Nectarines are basically fuzzless peaches and are treated the same as peaches.
Hardy peach and nectarine cultivars. Redhaven typically ripens the second week of July in central Missouri. 2 Bacterial leaf spot is a commonly occurring disease in Missouri. It is one of the few peach diseases that we can avoid through variety selection. In addition, chemical sprays are only moderately effective against this disease.