Severe weather damages Hill Country peach orchards | kvue.com Austin

Hill Country peaches are a Texas favorite but farmers say this year’s severe weather nearly destroyed their crops.

I suspect this is good news for Georgia peach growers.

Typically May marks the beginning of peach picking season in Texas but this year the crops are almost non-existent.

“You really have to search to see, but every once in a while you’ll see one peach,” said Dianne Eckhardt, a third generation peach grower at Donald Eckhardt Orchards in Fredericksburg. “As a child we were hauling peaches all day long in the summertime.”

Eckhardt says a freeze in late March and a hail storm this month damaged the orchard, leaving little to no peach crop. Typically this time of year, growers expect to find peaches every 10-15 inches. This year, however, one of her good trees only carries a few.

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