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Peaches
Our orchard of 800 peach trees includes 500 planted in 2010 in a new mixed block. Our small plantings of each variety ensures a steady supply of peaches throughout our stone fruit season, from January through to April. Peaches benefit from being sun-ripened on the tree, allowing their rich, sweet flavour to come through.
There are both yellow and white eating peaches, and clingstones (the ones used in processing), which are well suited to bottling but are also great for eating.
| Anzac |
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Old fashioned white flesh peach, very juicy with good flavour.
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Picking Dates: early-mid December
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| Fragar |
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Heritage white flesh peach, pink to red skin over a greeny
cream background. Flesh is softer and coarser than Tasty
Zee, but with more complex flavour.
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Picking Dates: 10 to 25 March
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| Julie |
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A medium-sized white semi-clingstone with a pinkish blush over a cream background. Great flavour.
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Picking Dates: 7 to 18 February
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| Tasty
Zee |
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Bright red skin over a rich cream background, sweet white
flesh. Sweet, delicious, juicy, eat-in-the-bath peaches.
Freestone.
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Picking Dates: 1 to 15 Feb
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| Briggs Red May |
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Old variety, freestone, rich yellow flesh, sweet and juicy. One
of the best early peach varieties.
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Picking Dates: early Jan
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| Early O'Henry |
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A rounded, well-coloured freestone peach with juicy yellow flesh.
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Picking Dates: 10 to 25 February
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Flavorcrest |
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Medium to large, reddish skin over yellow background, not
very hairy. Freestone, good flavour, quite sweet. Prone
to splitstone under drought conditions.
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Picking Dates: 6 to 15 Jan
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| Golden
Queen |
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Well known heritage variety of clingstone from New Zealand.
Medium sized fruit, deep orange skin and firm deep orange
flesh. Sweet, excellent for bottling.
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Picking Dates: 15 to 30 March
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| O'Henry |
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Large, red blush over dark yellow ground colour. Tough
skin, rich yellow flesh. Very sweet, aromatic. Freestone.
Lends itself to poaching and other rich peach desserts.
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Picking Dates: 5 to 25 March
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| Redtop |
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Yellow flesh, medium to large peach, mostly red skin with
yellow background. Good flavour, sweet and slightly acid.
Freestone.
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Picking Dates: 15 to 25 Jan
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| T204 |
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One of a series of clingstones developed at Tatura in Victoria
in the 1980s. Medium to large, golden yellow skin with firm,
juicy, sweet flesh. Excellent for bottling because retains
shape well (and sweet enough to bottle with little or no
sugar!).
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Picking Dates: 25 Jan to 15 Feb
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| T211 |
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Another in the series of clingstones developed at Tatura
in Victoria in the 1980s. Very similar to T204 but more prolific
bearer and slightly darker skin. Best to pick clingstones for bottling
when just yellow and quite firm (though not too green or
they won’t be sweet enough).
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Picking Dates: 15 to 28 Feb
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| Taylor
Queen |
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Clingstone, very similar to Golden Queen, but tends to
be slightly smaller fruit. Very sweet, excellent for
bottling.
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Picking Dates: 18 to 31 March
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