After four years of collecting data, Penn State University horticulturalist Dr. Jim Schupp has arrived at some conclusions about how peach growers should grow peaches to make the best possible returns. “All our systems made money, but some made more than others,” he said of the trials comparing four styles of plantings and two varieties. In his trials in peach orchards planted in 2007, he’s found that the best orchard designs are the hex V planted on a 10- by 18-foot spacing or the quad V planted at 7 by 18. To generalize, Schupp found that these two tall, upright […]