Fresh Peaches (photo by Dawn M. Turner, courtesy of morguefile.com)

Growers of Colorado’s celebrated peaches have indicated that this year’s crop will arrive about 10 days behind schedule, but will definitely be worth the wait.

An article in the Rocky Mountain News offers the following from Harold Larsen, fruit program leader of Colorado State University's Western Colorado Research Center, “This should be one of the banner years for fruit production in western Colorado. We should have better size, better quality, better appearance than we've had in a long time."

According to the article, the reasons for the bumper crop include, “Ample snowfall over the winter and a long, cool spring in the Western Slope created ideal conditions for stone fruits like peaches, cherries and apricots to slowly develop on the trees and benefit from maximum sunshine.”

If you’d like to read the Rocky Mountain News article cited above go to: Colorado fruit growers expect a banner year