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  • From: "Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] early peaches
  • Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:28:33 -0500

Mark, I think it would be good advice not to follow your logical advice about only planting cultivars that ripen at prime time for that species.  The earliest peach I have found useful here is Harrow Diamond and I am so happy every year to have good peaches before they are available at local farm stands.  The winter absence makes the heart grow fonder, believe me! 
 
Of course, if the weather is wet during early summer they may not get quality but that can work in other ways.  Last season my Diamonds were very good and my Red Havens (later and usually the beginning of prime time quality) sucked for lack of sugar- they were big and beautiful, but there was badly timed cloudy wet weather. 
 
If you put a Harrow Diamond side by side with a Loring at peak ripeness the Diamond might pale but that would never happen.  The fact is that any sweet, juicy peach should be well worth eating and the commercially available ones rarely come close to my early, mid, or late peaches.  In fact the quality of my Encores came very close to that of my prime time peaches this year and I appreciated them more because the glut was over.


  • [NAFEX] early peaches, Alan Haigh, 12/22/2008

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