Re: OT peaches

the same works for nectarines and plums too!
Cheryl

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

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