RE: [gardeners] Peaches
Seyfried,Alice (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:22:08 -0400
ooooooooooooo, makes me want to move to Texas just to get away from the
hard, moldy things they call peaches at our local Krogers. shluurrp,
shluurrp
Alice
seyfried@oclc.org
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 4:33 AM
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> Subject: [gardeners] Peaches
>
> Catharine wrote
> > Ma, send her peanuts. Tell her about F'burg peaches.
>
> Long story: F'bg has a big old warehouse called "The Peanut Factory"
> -- lots of peanuts used to be grown hereabouts and could be again,
> except our productive land is getting so expensive it
> wouldn't be economically feasible. ( And more-or-less
> non-productive land is generally used for hunting leases. . . or as
> one neighbor is fond of saying, "I make big bucks from my big
> bucks.")
> Which leaves F'bg's other big crop: peaches. Now Georgia is
> known for its peaches, and they are good, but Fbg peaches are better.
> Usually smaller because we have less rain, but their flavor knocks
> your socks off. Picking starts in late May with the clingstones
> (Regal, Gold Prrince, Sentinel, Gala) and works its way through the
> semi's and freestones (Harvester, Topaz, Cary Mac, Redglobe, Loring,
> Majestic, Denman, Redskin, Dixiland, Jefferson and Fayette) through
> the first half of August. During that period the roadside stands and
> "Pick Your Own" signs proliferate and the whole county smells of
> peaches. Stonewall, our neighbor a bit east of here, has an annual
> Peach Festival complete with floats, Queen and Her Court, some
> serious judging, a rodeo and dance, and peaches: in cobbler, pies,
> bread, preserves, out-of-hand (on onto chin), and peach icecream,
> peach slurpies, peach leather (and peach stains; a big business
> here is Clorox).
> Peaches don't ship well but peanuts do. The closest real peanut
> producing is in Gorham, north of here. We'll visit there during the
> season and send you some Liz.
> Cheers. Mapat