Peaches

My neighbors fruit farm. They just started picking peaches yesterday!
Very early this year and i can tell ya first hand that they are delicious.

they sure do look delicious

Makes your mouth water for a piece of fresh warm peach pie.

If peaches are ripe now in Pa. in 1863 at Gettysburg in the peach orchard the troops must have had good fruit to eat until the fighting got started there.

They look absolutely wonderful.

I haven't had a good peach in years. Finally quit wasting my money at the store. Peaches you get there are sorry and usually wind up throwing them away.

Sign at the grocery store a week ago said "tree ripened peaches". They were hard as a rock.

I can go along with that. I make a wicked peach cobbler that goes over quite well around here. Served with ice cream while warm.

They look absolutely perfect. Your area must be the sweet spot for growing them. Some try to grow them here in central NY. They are great when it works. There is nothing like that here this year. Our beautiful record setting late winter/early spring weather did no one any favors. Of course winter cold and snow made a comeback, and destroyed much of the fruit tree crop. Now since the trees aren't having to produce fruit, they are putting the energy into new growth! Just what the growers need- more work for nothing!
We had 6" heavy wet snow about Apr. 22, and a few inches of rain shortly thereafter. Didn't get back on the ground until about May 14.

My dad always cited "Georgia peaches" as one of life's biggest disappointments.

We get decent ones locally for a few weeks in summer, but most of the year they're from Chile or heaven knows where, and usually not much good.

They look GREAT! They look ripe. Had a small (17 acre) commercial peach orchard.......way back when; pushed it up in '86; we'd missed 3 crops in-a-row; state highway by-pass was gonna get part of it and it was a perfect opportunity to quit. Haven't had a really good peach since.........if you've never had a truly tree-ripend peach, you don't know what you've missed..........

Best peach I ever had in my whole life came off a tree in my yard.

There"s nothing like locally grown, true tree-ripened fruit!

Oh, man... I am so jealous! Those look so awesome! Sadly I have never had a tree-ripened peach in my life. Boy, would I love to eat some of those. Then I would can up a bunch of them for winter.

GEE will your neighbor ship them? I could pay via pay pal if he is set up to do that. Heck, I think I'd be willing to pay extra to have them shipped overnight via Fed-Ex... they look that delicious.

Store bought peaches always seem to spoil before they will ripen these days. It is almost like they rot from the inside out... starting by the pit.

That orchard in PA is not much behind us here in SC. SC is the second largest peach producer in the US, with CA being first and GA third. Years ago, it was said that the county I live in, Spartanburg, produced more peaches than the state of GA. Don't know if it was true or not and I'm sure it's not true now. A huge amount of orchards are now housing developments.

A series of late frosts got a lot of people out of the peach business a few years ago. The productive life of a peach tree is less than 10 years, I think, at any rate it's short. Peaches have to be expensively sprayed for various pests. After peach trees die and are pulled up, there has to be a waiting period of several years before the land can be pl;anted back in peaches due to diseases in the soil. Growing peaches is not for people with shallow pockets.

KEH

I'm diabetic for about two years I guess, but have found that eating fruit, natural sugar is good for me, so long as I don't over do it. Things I find good are peaches, nectarines, cherries. I haven't eaten an orange since coming down with diabetes, but I used to eat at least a half dozen a day, at least. No more pineapple. Hey, I thought eating a whole watermellon by myself over a couple of days would be good for me, but that's when I went legally blind for a few weeks. Seriously. That might have been what sent me over the edge, that and drinking half a case of orange Gatorade every day, at least.

I noticed something this year though with the peaches and nectarines. So far for the most part, they are very odd shaped, almost like small pointy pears, which I eat too. And when I take a bite of them, the pits pretty much break up and pull apart, and the seeds just fall right out. I never seen anything like it before. Peaches have been out of Georgia and Chile. Hey, I find that natural sugar fruits help my diabetes. Something that I found that lowers my sugar level quickly is salted peanuts. I don't know why, but they do. They are instant weight on though. Not any medication for a year by regulating my diet and keeping an eye on the blood sugar level. Could use exercise, and that would really fix me up.

Anyway, thanks for the pictures of the peaches, because guess what I need more of? Mmm, mmm, mmm. I love them.

Much good, great luck and fortune to all.

Mark