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Peach tree. How would you keep it sheltered?

janntimsonjanntimson Posts: 54
edited February 2021 in Fruit & veg
I have just bought a peach tree, perigrine on st julian a rootstock. My original plan was to put it in the greenhouse in spring to protect it from the dreaded leaf curl then bring it out in the summer months. However I'm realising that this will be a massive faff as the pot I planned on putting it on is a tiny bit too wide for the greenhouse door and also it will weigh a tonne. I guess my option is keep it in the greenhouse permanently in its pot, plant it directly into the ground under the greenhouse or have outside full time and put some sort of shelter over it. What do other people do? And has it worked?

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    My two nectarines and a peach are small enough to be moved in and out of the polytunnel at the mo but eventually they'll have to be planted out and I'll make them a shelter on the lines of the one in this article by the RHS - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=232
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • TeTe Posts: 193
    janntimson said:
    I have just bought a peach tree,
    perigrine on st julian a rootstock. My original plan was to put it in the greenhouse in spring to protect it from the dreaded leaf curl then bring it out in the summer months. However I'm realising that this will be a massive faff as the pot I planned on putting it on is a tiny bit too wide for the greenhouse door and also it will weigh a tonne. I guess my option is keep it in the greenhouse permanently in its pot, plant it directly into the ground under the greenhouse or have outside full time and put some sort of shelter over it. What do other people do? And has it worked?
    @janntimson how big is your peach tree
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  • janntimsonjanntimson Posts: 54
    Te said:
    janntimson said:
    I have just bought a peach tree,
    perigrine on st julian a rootstock. My original plan was to put it in the greenhouse in spring to protect it from the dreaded leaf curl then bring it out in the summer months. However I'm realising that this will be a massive faff as the pot I planned on putting it on is a tiny bit too wide for the greenhouse door and also it will weigh a tonne. I guess my option is keep it in the greenhouse permanently in its pot, plant it directly into the ground under the greenhouse or have outside full time and put some sort of shelter over it. What do other people do? And has it worked?
    @janntimson how big is your peach tree
    It's about 1.5m tall already and I've just moved it into our greenhouse and it's only about half a foot away from the roof! I'm putting it in a large pot but guessing my chances of keeping it small enough to live in there are fairly slim? Could I just cover it with one of those transparent frost sheets over spring and have it outside instead? 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited February 2021
    Did you read the RHS link I gave you? 

    Your protection needs to keep off the worst of frosts but also all late winter/early spring rain which is how the leaf curl spores are carried to your peach tree.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • TeTe Posts: 193
    @janntimson there are fleeces you can purchase for covering such, as stated it will definitely outgrown your greenhouse 
    "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"
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