text: Texas peaches take a hit
  At a recent peach growers’ meeting, “the group consensus is there’s very little or nothing out there,” he says.
  Rebecca Rather, owner of Rather Sweet Café and Bakery in Fredericksburg, says any fruit that survives will be more expensive.
  Roger Crenwelge, who’s grown peaches in Gillespie County for 40 years, will have none.
  As he explains it, “It just takes a few hours of cold to take care of a crop. It’s not like you can get a second crop off them.”
  Grower Gary Marburger says if any peaches are available at Hill Country roadside stands, it will only be enough to “last about 30 minutes a day, and some days none,” he says.
  Where he normally has trees bearing 500 to 600 peaches, Marburger’s trees now have 10 to 15 peaches.
  “Most of those still hanging on the tree have a dead seed. Without a live seed, peaches don’t mature right.”
  For updates on the peach crop, go to www.texaspeaches.com.