My recommendation is to plant Florida King for a low-chill, early-producing peach and June Gold for production in late May. For a higher-quality peach that takes another month to produce fruit ...

Florida King is a semi-cling variety that requires 450 chill hours. It produces a relatively large, attractive fruit on a consistent basis that is usually ready for harvest in late April.

Mike Page, a vegetable gardener at Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, planted Floridaprince peach trees four years ago. “This season, we got 300 or 400 peaches in our garden,” Page says.

Q: I have several fig trees that I planted in 2010 in my back yard. The first year, I got a great harvest from two of the three trees, but the following years only my brown turkey seems to go to ...