Flamin'Fury� PF 24C-Cold Hardy Peach is touted by its breeder as being one of the most cold hardy and frost resistant peaches he has ever seen. It has attractive large, red fruit that have excellent flavor and quality. We are getting good reports out of colder areas where peach are not usually succesful that PF24C-Cold Hardy is surviving the cold winters. However, since it is still such a new peach, we cannot claim it to be hardy to Zone 4 for sure, but we suspect it is one of the hardier peaches around!

Scott

Apparently McKay is not Wisconsin Balmer, as the thread linked above was mentioned to be. The link below also mentions it.

I decided to get Contender, Polly, Ranger, and Indian Free Peach for my aunt in Iowa. This link might help too:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg081648531967.html

Here is another link regarding Earlitreat that is also hardy enough in Iowa.

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg072247337437.html

All of the above mentioned peaches can be found at Bay Laurel, I believe, but they have a deadline to special order that was last Friday. Maybe you can beg them to add yours if you decide.

If you really want a PF24-C you can have mine:)

I have made the mistake of choosing varieties based on these factors (especially frost hardiness) long before becoming a reader of this forum. Now I wish I had just gone with the tastiest varieties that have good growth characteristics.

Reliance peach is an example of this mistake. It died back just as much as the others when we had our record cold a few years back, and blooms at exactly the same time as the others, losing it's crop of fruit most years as well. And then I find out the fruit quality leaves much to be desired.