I think that I shall never see...

...anything as lovely as an Oklahoma peach tree!

If you live in Oklahoma, you really are missing out if you have not planted one! You don't necessarily get peaches every year, but the years you get them, you will not forget ~ picking it off the tree and biting into that juicy, messy, sun-warmed goodness!

We get a late spring frost some years while the trees are still blossoming. This kills the fruit for that season, but you can still enjoy the beautiful tree...and hope that next year will be better.

You can buy an inexpensive tree (usually less than $20) from a nursery. Buy two or three while you are at it! The dwarf and semi-dwarf trees are great! Plant them in a place that will get full sun and good drainage. If you plant it at a higher elevation, it is less likely to be damaged by those spring frosts since frost likes to go into the lower valleys. Keep it watered well that first year while it is taking root. By the second year, my trees are already trying to give me peaches! And by the third summer, if you do not get that late frost, you will certainly have at least a few yummy juicy peaches!


I had the most beautiful peach tree up until a year ago. I let a friend keep his dairy goats in my pasture when he had no place to keep them. I love goats and have kept them for years, so I know what goats can do to fruit trees. They really prefer the taste of fruit trees and roses and anything beautiful! But...that is a totally different story... I put a fence up around my beautiful peach tree. But...unbeknownst to me, these goats were fence climbers...and that was the end of my beautiful peach tree.

So, my family, knowing how I loved that peach tree, went out last spring and bought me two new trees to replace that one. This time we planted them outside of the pasture. This year they blossomed beautifully and the spring frost came late and killed the blossom. So we are just enjoying the beauty of the trees themselves. This will give them another year to mature and be more ready for fruiting anyway. I thought you might enjoy seeing the pictures of my new trees and the peaches from my last one.

Make it a point to get to the nursery this fall and start your own personal peach factory!! Fall is a great time to plant fruit trees in Oklahoma. Don't put it off any longer. You will be so glad you did!