Spring freezes especially hurt earliest varieties
Peaches, like these at Penland’s Orchard, are about ready to be picked by local growers. It appears that March freeze events did thin, but did not decimate the local peach crop.
Gilmer County’s overall peach crop for 2023 may be less plentiful than last year’s bumper crop, but there healthy peaches on the trees just about ready to pick.
Low temperatures dippe...

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