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schoolmama
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amy
WI
USA
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 Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 08:37:45 AM
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around here the Georgia peach truck comes around every summer with some awesome peaches. I was planning buying a few for canning- but they are $33 a box!!
the nearby grocery has peaches(california) on sale this week for .69 cents a #- that figures out to half the price of the Georgia peaches.
I guess I'm just wondering if there is a huge difference as far as canning them? anyone know? |
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emsmommy5
True Blue Farmgirl
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Angie
Buckley
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 09:02:39 AM
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We don't get a look at peach prices for canning until next month. =)
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 10:08:36 AM
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I bought 25# of Georgia peaches for $35.00 and canned 12 quarts in light honey syrup. I also had enough to do 6 pints of preserves and make a cobbler and eat a couple. I think the GA ones would be better, who knows where the grocery store ones really came from.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 10:23:15 AM
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We get peaches here in late August. They are from a farm in Idaho and are brought in to a relative of this farmer's here in town everyone (and I do mean just about everyone!) goes over before 8am on the morning they come to town with the big refridgerated truck and takes a number and then brings their own boxes (or pays for the farmer's boxes) and buys what they need. Always so so good. I know they are less than $20 a box but we never know until they get here what the price is. I usually can at least 6 boxes. Didn't do enough last year and ran out of peaches last week. I hate that! I canned at least 2 years supply of applesauce though...so it just works out that way sometimes.
I think it really matters where they come from as well. I plan to plant my own peach trees this year..but still will be awhile for harvesting from them.
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 10:28:33 AM
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My favorite fruit in the world is the peach, I have 23 peach trees here and 3 differant varietys, I can all of them, except for what I eat off the tree, and use in pies right away. There is "NO" comparison between store bought and fresh, I would highly recommend "NOT" buying store bought for canning or anything else, you just would not be happy...
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mickib
True Blue Farmgirl
267 Posts
Michele
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 10:41:00 AM
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| I paid $35 a box last year for peaches from Kettle Falls, WA. I could buy them from some orchards that are closer or from the store, but to me, these peaches are worth every penny. I'm a huge fan of Suncrest peaches, even though they are not the premium canning peaches. I love the flavor. So, my answer is, can the peaches you love to eat. If the peaches in the store taste great, they might be just fine. But from personal experience, the California peaches in our stores right now are hard as a rock. Usually when they soften up they are just mushy with no flavor. I have to wait clear 'til September for those Suncrests that I love! |
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schoolmama
True Blue Farmgirl
70 Posts
Amy
WI
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 1:22:08 PM
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thanks for the replies. I went to the store to look at the peaches. they are SMALL!!! no wonder! I did buy some for the kids to munch on , but no way for canning- that would take forever!
I'll be buying peaches off the truck tomorrow, I guess. |
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Singing Tree Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Cari
Chase
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 7:04:00 PM
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I've got a ways to go before it's peach season here, but one of the things I look for in a good canner is if it's a free stone. Sooo much easier.
Also make sure they're ripe. Last year everything was having a hard time getting ripe in time for the end of the season. Usually we go to the orchard ourselves for old style Red Havens, but instead we ordered them through Amish. They were not ripe or good, but it was too late. I canned them but the taste is just not the same.
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kathyinozarks
True Blue Farmgirl
263 Posts
Kathy
Lebanon
Missouri
USA
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Tammyb
True Blue Farmgirl
511 Posts
Tammy
Bluffton
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 14 2010 : 11:17:03 PM
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Paid 28.00 for a half bushel ... tasted great so bought 1 1/2 bushel and canned 30+ quarts. New granddaughter will be enjoying these ... as soon as she is able :)
Tammyb
Live to leave a legacy
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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
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Laurie
Montrose
CO
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Posted - Jul 15 2010 : 07:01:33 AM
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Direct from the farmer!!! The store bought ones are picked green so they can be shipped. We have a shed locally and they still make the farmers pick green if they want to get into the groceries. It's sad.
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Nigella
True Blue Farmgirl
386 Posts
Nigella
Chimacum
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 15 2010 : 09:44:57 AM
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I'm really hoping we get some decent peaches around here... I bought some organic ones at our local health food grocery and I was sooo disapointed! They were rock hard (obviously picked green), I was hoping they would ripen up on the counter but they started to go bad so I sliced them up (sounded like apples when I cut them...) to make them into crisp. I would give my right hand for some good peaches, I realized as I was cutting them that it's been years since I had a really good peach.... My mom used to take us out to pick local ones, that was in a much warmer part of the state.... Boy, there's nothing more disappointing than a sour, flavorless peach made me want to cry....
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