Peaches are in Danger
By: Nate Potter
Updated: March 26, 2012
FERGUSON TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY - The low temperatures early Tuesday morning are putting peach trees in danger.
Right now, peach trees are in full bloom. That's about one month ahead of 2011.
The low temperatures early Tuesday morning will be in the mid 20s. Temperatures that cold can kill anything in bloom.
"If you get down around 25 degrees or so, you can see as much as 90% damage," Dan Harner of Harner Farm said, standing in front of one of his peach trees.
Harner runs Harner Farm, which as about 40 acres of fruit trees, including 8 acres of peach trees.
Harner said the only thing you can do is prune differently to help trees that are hurt the worst, but that can't bring back dead blossoms or the fruit that they would have produced.
Right now, peach trees are in full bloom. That's about one month ahead of 2011.
The low temperatures early Tuesday morning will be in the mid 20s. Temperatures that cold can kill anything in bloom.
"If you get down around 25 degrees or so, you can see as much as 90% damage," Dan Harner of Harner Farm said, standing in front of one of his peach trees.
Harner runs Harner Farm, which as about 40 acres of fruit trees, including 8 acres of peach trees.
Harner said the only thing you can do is prune differently to help trees that are hurt the worst, but that can't bring back dead blossoms or the fruit that they would have produced.
