Re: OT peaches

I have found if I put them in a paper bag for a day or two they seem to
ripen better.  I haven't had the disgusting mushy ones since I've ripened
them this way.  But I haven't tried it for all this long.  Some seemed to go
from hard to awful mush without this treatment, though.  Judy Warner
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From: <ECPep@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: OT peaches


> 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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