When I lived in SC and NC a lot of folks put up canned pickled peaches. I grew right fond of them.
Not easy to find up here.
Not easy to find up here.
Annual Peach Thread
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ancient-one
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When we moved to the house we called home for sixty one years it was on a large lot. I think that I had six peach trees down one side of the back and three apple trees on the other side. When the peaches got ripe my mother-in-law would come and help my wife can them. The ones that were fresh off of the tree were so good.
Chubbo
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Ohio peaches
It's not yet peach season in Ohio.
At one time there were many peach orchards around Sandusky, Ohio, and we cultivated peach trees on our home site, in central Ohio. Ohio's peaches were considered by many people to produce the best peaches in the world, and my wife and I agree.
Ohio weather drastically changed, and the peach trees on our home site died, as I would assume that the ones did, even further North, in the Sandusky area.
Circa 1950, on our frequent camping trips to the Lake Erie area, we’d bring back a bushel of those peaches for my wife to can, and be used during the year.
As a result of Ohio's inclement weather, We've lost most of our fruit, and nut, bearing trees, such as; peach, cherry, apricot, pear, date, Paw Paw, apple, English, and black walnut trees, as a result of inclement Ohio weather.
Chubbo
It's not yet peach season in Ohio.
At one time there were many peach orchards around Sandusky, Ohio, and we cultivated peach trees on our home site, in central Ohio. Ohio's peaches were considered by many people to produce the best peaches in the world, and my wife and I agree.
Ohio weather drastically changed, and the peach trees on our home site died, as I would assume that the ones did, even further North, in the Sandusky area.
Circa 1950, on our frequent camping trips to the Lake Erie area, we’d bring back a bushel of those peaches for my wife to can, and be used during the year.
As a result of Ohio's inclement weather, We've lost most of our fruit, and nut, bearing trees, such as; peach, cherry, apricot, pear, date, Paw Paw, apple, English, and black walnut trees, as a result of inclement Ohio weather.
Chubbo
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Hey, I grew up in SC and my ex-wife worked in a packing shed in HS. My aunt and I would go to an orchard and pick tree ripened fruit and make home churned peach ice cream (with yours truly powering the churn). My payoff besides the ice cream was peeling and slicing for a peach pie. Don't be slamming SC peaches. DEM'S fighting words.
doublesharp
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Love your threads Red. Having made my fortune in a roadside fruit stand, peaches are near and dear to me. 
All product is important but customers will go out of their way to get tomatoes with flavor and peaches that eat like what Red describes. I started my fruit stand in 1974 and was fortunate to have some of the best mentors in the Louisville area for advice. Crazy way to make a living, feast or famine in the early days.
You can build a business on peaches and tomatoes but you've got to have the best. Used to be easy to beat the chain stores with their gassed green ripening but the independent produce wholesale houses have all but disappeared and roadside markets like I had are about gone. I got in at the right time and got out at an opportune time.
I used to do a bit of business on the Forest Park Mkt back in 80s/early 90s, mainly with General, Hatcher, Georgia Tomato, Adams, Gaines Miller and what ever I could find in the sheds.
I've bought peaches in Birmingham and that was a trip, back in the 80s B'ham mkt was pretty basic but those split basket peaches were worth the trip. Can't get them at a chain store.
I could tell war stories all night...
this was my stand in the late 70s/80s (3rd from left front row is yours truly)
All product is important but customers will go out of their way to get tomatoes with flavor and peaches that eat like what Red describes. I started my fruit stand in 1974 and was fortunate to have some of the best mentors in the Louisville area for advice. Crazy way to make a living, feast or famine in the early days.
You can build a business on peaches and tomatoes but you've got to have the best. Used to be easy to beat the chain stores with their gassed green ripening but the independent produce wholesale houses have all but disappeared and roadside markets like I had are about gone. I got in at the right time and got out at an opportune time.
I used to do a bit of business on the Forest Park Mkt back in 80s/early 90s, mainly with General, Hatcher, Georgia Tomato, Adams, Gaines Miller and what ever I could find in the sheds.
I've bought peaches in Birmingham and that was a trip, back in the 80s B'ham mkt was pretty basic but those split basket peaches were worth the trip. Can't get them at a chain store.
I could tell war stories all night...
this was my stand in the late 70s/80s (3rd from left front row is yours truly)
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My all time favorite is another Georgia developed peach, the Elberta.
Maybe because a lot of those were grown in Arkansas, also the Belle
of Georgia variety.
The picked green and hard as a brick just don't cut it. A couple years
ago I ask the produce guy at the store if the peaches were free stone,
he stood there with a blank look, had not a clue what I was talking about.
Clarksville, Arkansas just had their peach festival this weekend. Back in
the late 50's early 60's my older brother had a ton and a half truck. He
and a school teacher friend he had grown up with went to Clarksville and
bought a truck load of peaches, hauled them back home and pedaled
them through the country side. Almost every housewife with childern at
home would buy 1-3 bushels. My brother usually made 3 trips a summer,
depending on how fast they sold.
Maybe because a lot of those were grown in Arkansas, also the Belle
of Georgia variety.
The picked green and hard as a brick just don't cut it. A couple years
ago I ask the produce guy at the store if the peaches were free stone,
he stood there with a blank look, had not a clue what I was talking about.
Clarksville, Arkansas just had their peach festival this weekend. Back in
the late 50's early 60's my older brother had a ton and a half truck. He
and a school teacher friend he had grown up with went to Clarksville and
bought a truck load of peaches, hauled them back home and pedaled
them through the country side. Almost every housewife with childern at
home would buy 1-3 bushels. My brother usually made 3 trips a summer,
depending on how fast they sold.
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When my wife and I lived in Rock Hill, SC [93-97], we would really look forward to peach season. Such a terrific fragrance in the air!
Many peach farms in northern SC. They grew many different varieties-[I had no idea there were so many different ones].
We've asked which variety are the peaches in the stores here in Arizona and they give you a "duh" stare and say "well they're just peaches. Sacrilege!
Buckshot Bill
Many peach farms in northern SC. They grew many different varieties-[I had no idea there were so many different ones].
We've asked which variety are the peaches in the stores here in Arizona and they give you a "duh" stare and say "well they're just peaches. Sacrilege!
Buckshot Bill
I love South Carolina Peaches. I also like Ga Peaches. Those things from the People's Republic of California are not peaches
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well.. it is next week and as promised I made a peach & cherry pie with a crumble top... it is in the oven as I type this and the house is starting to smell pretty good... will update when they come out of the oven...
UPDATE: still too hot to slice, should be ready by dinner time
UPDATE 2: quite tasty... experiment with the crumble top turned out nice.. added rice krispies along with the rolled oats butter brown sugar & cinnamon.. tastes like caramel corn.. strangely good
UPDATE: still too hot to slice, should be ready by dinner time
UPDATE 2: quite tasty... experiment with the crumble top turned out nice.. added rice krispies along with the rolled oats butter brown sugar & cinnamon.. tastes like caramel corn.. strangely good
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With the weather this year and all the frost and cold spells at the wrong time
our tree is taking a rest, this year.
I did not even put tomatoes in this year !!
I hope that next year turns out a lot warmer, early in the year, for us.
our tree is taking a rest, this year.
I did not even put tomatoes in this year !!
I hope that next year turns out a lot warmer, early in the year, for us.
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