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Sweetest of all Peach and a Fig

NcastleNcastle Posts: 14
in Fruit & veg

Can you please suggest sweetest of all variety for a peach and a fig tree, can be grown in North East? We prefer pure sugar, honey taste (less of everything else bitter, tart, Sauer, acidic etc.).

Planning to plant in February.

Thank you

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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    The fig that is generally grown in this country is the Brown Turkey. The fruits are divine and taste like the best soft toffee but getting them to ripen can be a bit hit and miss. In a good summer you might gets fruits to ripen outdoors but if you have a greenhouse, keep a couple of single stemmed plants under glass for guaranteed ripe fruits. I know some people manage to get a good crop outdoors on a regular basis but I'm not sure if that would be possible in the NE. They are very easy to propagate from cuttings so you can, if you want, keep a good supply of young plants under glass for fruit.
  • NcastleNcastle Posts: 14
    Thank you great advice @Ceres.

    I will proceed with this one. I do have large conservatory and planning roofed baranda.

    Would you know same about peach. As per my googling i found Peregrine is sweet and right choice.

    Thanks again.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I used to live in Northumberland and worked as a gardener.  One of my customers had a small estate (main house, cottage, outbuildings and land) with a long southwest-facing wall on the outbuilding.  They had a Peregrine peach on this wall, growing in the open though sheltered by walls on 2 sides, and it produced great fruit - over 50 one year - which were delicious and sweet.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • NcastleNcastle Posts: 14
    @Liriodendron
    Great. I have south facing wall, on one side small tree. I can try shelter better with some screens etc on side. I will go ahead with this. Thanks
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Agree with brown turkey fig, fabulous fruit.
    Take care though with peaches. We have one in the main garden (no idea what variety it is as planted decades ago) and is suffers very badly with peach leaf curl.
    We planted another one in the orchard which has much better resistance.

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    If the peach tree is grown on a wall, it's possible to protect it from rain splash between November and May with a "roller blind" of plastic... this should protect it from peach leaf curl fungus.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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