“We started the season with low volume, but now that we are into our high-chill-hour peaches, that volume is picking up with good quality and size,” he said. Georgia peach farmer Lee Dickey ...

the chill effect or chill hours are needed for proper growth of certain fruit. The bone-chilling freezes to come have many guarding against frozen pipes, and checking water for their livestock.

If the temperatures are low enough or long enough ... they require 1,200-1,500 annual chill hours and that is well above our average of about 1,100 hours. Peaches do well in our area because ...