Actually, Georgia peaches ripen a week or two earlier than SC peaches. I grew up in a town called the "peach center of the world" back in the 1950s, and the peach farmers hated it that GA peaches came on the market earlier than the local ones and caused the price to drop. I have always thought that the older varieties of peaches were better flavored than the more recently developed varieties that were developed with the emphasis more on other aspects than flavor. In the earliest days of peach growing, the best flavored peaches were a variety called Georgia Belle, which was a white meat variety. They were very delicate and couldn't be shipped, so fell out of favor, but most that grew them kept a few trees for home consumption when they went to other varieties. I talked to a peach farmer Monday who said that all the rain we have had this year has caused the fruit to grow so fast that split peaches are a problem, but the crop is good otherwise.
