Sprouting seeds for peach trees

The deer found mine. The protection didn't go high enough.

It's alive, just not so tall! Nectarine shrub anyone?

Nice...we don't have near that level of growth, but have 9 or 10 apricot seedlings...the tallest is perhaps a foot.

Thom Bri wrote:One little peach tree had just one flower. Now it has one peach! Tree is about 7 feet tall, 3 (I think) years old.

We ate that one little peach today! It was good.
It's a bit early for the main crop, but I have been eating damaged and windfall peaches for a week now. 2 of my trees have too many peaches and large branches broke off, in spite of my attempting to support them with props. I was planning to cut those trees way back this winter anyway...

1 lb. 2 oz. peach (510 grams) next to a normal peach.

One almond tree in the ground, looking happy so far, we'll see if it manages winter at 64 degrees north... The other plant and all the sprouting seeds were found and devoured by a squirrel soon after putting the pot outside. It also bit the top off the surviving plant. Oh well. Next time I'll try to sprout them longer in advance, so there's no tasty nut left to attract rodents once they go outside.

Eino Kenttä wrote:One almond tree in the ground, looking happy so far, we'll see if it manages winter at 64 degrees north... The other plant and all the sprouting seeds were found and devoured by a squirrel soon after putting the pot outside. It also bit the top off the surviving plant. Oh well. Next time I'll try to sprout them longer in advance, so there's no tasty nut left to attract rodents once they go outside.

I often lay stones on top of pots of seeds. The sprouts come up between the stones, and the squirrels can't get at the seeds.

Thom Bri wrote:I often lay stones on top of pots of seeds. The sprouts come up between the stones, and the squirrels can't get at the seeds.

Okay, now that's brilliant! Simple and elegant. Thank you!

Hardware cloth (mesh available in a variety of sizes - sort of like a coarse window screen) can also be very practical to keep critters away from young plants.  A 1/4" mesh can also be useful to make a loose fence around the trunk to prevent mice or voles from girdling the trunk and killing the tree.

The other day we got 5 lbs of locally grown plums that are very nice, so we are saving the pits and will plant them out.

I need to figure out where the apricot seedlings are going so I can move them soon.