RE: OT peaches

Every year I go looking for real peaches - firm, juicy - haven't found them in years. I remember spending days making jam and jelly with my grandmother with fruit from the farm - alas all the recipes where only in her head. The peach jam was thick with fruit, the stewed tomatoes out of this world.
Cheryl -


I have a peach tree in my yard-- some years they are awesome, this
year... to the compost pile :( Maybe it is the season's dry / temp that
makes the difference. Really don't have a clue... but I am sure someone
on this list does...

At my last house, had a peach tree that I would have to support with
2X4's every year or the branches would break from all the fruit...
learned how to make jellies... enjoyed them all year long that way..
Hum.. wonder if the tree is still there?

Donna


 I love peaches and ripe juicy peaches are supposed to be in season

here.

 Most of them come from somewhere else, I know, but they are in the

markets

 now.

 What I want to know is why some are ripe, juicy and delicious as I

have

 remembered from my far off childhood and some that you buy are dry,

mushy

 and
 yukky to eat.

 In our house we refer to the second type as paper peaches and discard
 them,
 no-one will eat them.  You cannot tell which kind you are getting when

you

 buy them.

 What has happened to peaches.  When did this yukky kind appear?  The

mushy

 dry ones look good in the stores, they do not look different from the
 juicy
 ones.  Lately, I have made a produce man cut them in half and I have a
 look
 before I buy them.  I know they hate this but...............

 Claire Peplowski
 NYS z4

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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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