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Alan,

Peach season has been over here for 2 weeks - but we had the same situation as you this year -  plenty of rain, not much sun, cool nights ---> watery, low sugar peaches.  We canned some anyway, but the best output was dried peaches - greatly concentrates what sugar and flavor is there.

My nectarine trees diseased out a few years ago and I haven't replaced them.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Haigh
Sent: Aug 14, 2009 6:56 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Best peach I ever ate

OK, someone said the best peach they ever ate was actually a nectarine.  I just ate one off my Summer Beaut tree and it is so much better than the bland peaches I'm harvesting so far this year.  Somehow the nect. got the brix up inspite of relentless rain.

 

Wish I could say the same for my Earli-red-fre, or my Redhaven, both of which provided or are providing me with the lovliest water-balloons you ever saw.  My earliest peach, Harrow Diamond did ok.

 

Early returns on Johnboy (an early sport of Loring) and Earnies Choice indicate they may at least be sweet enough to be enjoyable.  On a "normal" year they'd be wonderful.