Peaches

[31FordA]

Another vote for white peaches, my favorites. Just bought some last night, grown in Lancaster County PA.

Peach pie and peach iced tea are two other great uses for peaches.

 

[soFlaNative]

I recall you sharing this one...

 

[STCM(SW)]

Don't have any peaches here, just my raspberry's, yellow & red plum's and some pears. The huckleberry jam, red plum jelly are setting now and a new batch of raspberry jam being made tonight.
How to make friends is to give some away and ask them how they liked
what I made......

 

[chuckie]

The town next to us (Hudson Ma.) has local grown peaches that are pretty darn good.

 

[Jst1mr]

Must be a good peach crop in Georgia...the folks who bring truckloads WAY up here to Northern Wisconsin are bringing a 2nd truck up this year...thank you very much.

Bumper blueberry crop up here this year...if you've only ever had a "domestic" blueberry, you are truly missing out! Warm piece of wild blueberry pie with a scoop or two of homemade vanilla ice cream. mmmm Blackberries coming up next!

Also had a great strawberry year in the area (farmed). If your only exposure to strawberries is those abominations the folks in CA ship around the country, well...you have a new bucket for your list.

After living 4-5 years on the Western Slope of Colorado, their peaches are fine, BUT they grow the BEST sweetcorn! Forget all that Peaches&Cream stuff and get yourself out to Olathe, CO for the corn festival....you'll see!


And thanks to the folks in Washington state for the excellent Ranier Cherries...a bit spendy around here, but worth it. Many years ago, our family would vacation in Montana and buy Bing cherries at roadside stands around Flathead Lake. We didn't have A/C in our vehicle, so would drive with the windows open spitting out cherry pits...wonder if any took seed!

 

[amazingflapjack]

I haven't had a decent Peach since I left Georgia 30 years ago.

 

[427mach1]

Peaches are nice..........
unless they are from the neighbors tree and falling into your yard
to rot on the ground and bring in bees and ants and other pest
to cause you problems.

Around here, anything hanging over the property line is fair game. Pick them when they are ripe and before they fall to the ground to waste away. Problem solved!!

 

[anoblefox]

this past Monday we drove 1-1/2 hours ( one way) to get fresh peaches. Yesterday they were ready and we made home made ice cream with them. Brought back memories when I was just 6 years old and it was my job to sit on the hand crank ice cream maker so that my uncles could take turns cranking until the ice cream froze to full firmness. We would go to the railroad station and buy a 50 lb block of ice and insert it into double gunney sacks and bust it up with a sledge hammer then insert in the maker! That was 60 years ago, my how times have changed!

 

[Rustyt1953]

When I lived in FL and SC, folks were big on pickled peaches which I grew fond of. Don't see them much around here.

PS: Peaches was way better than Herb.

 

[dave1918a2]

The peaches from Palisade CO. are the best of them all. Except for the Georgia Peaches in halter tops.

 

[Peak53]

I once knew a girl named Peaches ... really. Those were the days

 

[usmc2427765]

We usually go to Fredericksburg, Tx for peaches in June. Due to health issues dealing with heat, we were not able to make it this year. In my younger days, we loved to stop at the old German stone houses to buy peaches in their front yard and if you looked respectable, the old German would offer me a beer while the ladies were shopping. That ice cold beer while seated under an old live oak tree was in the June heat are some of my finest memories of Texas.

 

[MCorps0311]

Picked up some peaches at Sam's the other day.

 

[Whitwabit]

Just picked up a tray of white flesh peach's this afternoon at our local Costco Store .. not the normal yellow flesh ones we usually get here ..

Haven't seen them in the stores up here before today .. FIL had 3 of the trees on his farm in Indiana until a wind storm took them and 2 other trees down years ago ..

 

[joe44va]

A bit of thread drift.
Another T.S. Eliot poem.

Fleas:
Adam hadem.

 

[Onomea]

Ah, yes: Peach Picking Time in Georgia.

(Like that photo, too, Redlevel.)

 

[Ogandydancer]

North Carolina has some pretty good ones, grown in what we call the sand hills area of the state. About 70 miles from me. When we w3nt and bought direct we would freeze all we could and make a batch or two of homemade peach ice cream, nothing can compare to it. Wife hasn't been able to work them up now for a few years and I really miss them.

 

[Chuck24]

Peaches are best with ice cream around them

 

[ASA335]

What! No Peach Recipe Videos?

How about Peach Pie:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCCcoh8qNs[/ame]

 

[bigwheelzip]

No discussion of peaches would be complete without including the nation's most famous peach. The "Gaffney Peach" water tower off of Interstate 85, in Gaffney, South Carolina. And don't forget their annual Peachfest in mid-July!!