Free peaches, 3# (7 peaches)
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Comments (7)An alternative option is to take a method from fig growers, who bundle up their trees to protect them from cold. The difference is that you can bundle up peaches to protect them from rain. I live in W. Washington and peach leaf curl is rampant. It takes using small pruned, or genetic dwarf, peach trees like Ponderosa (Or is it Bonanza?) or Honey Babe or Garden Gold (My varieties). I bundle up the branches with twine, each major branch being one bundle. Then I cover each bundle with a white plastic trash bag "sheath" and tie that in place as well. Keeping the rain off the buds, prevents peach leaf curl spores from getting into the buds and growing. I've sprayed the bundles before covering with copper spray but not sure if it's necessary. The bundling needs to be done in November. Then in February, I remove the trash bags and unbundle. I watch for when buds begin to swell, then remove the bags. This technique changed my peach loss from almost 100% to an overabundance of peaches. Only a few leaves were infected wtih leaf curl. I also did this with a Tri-lite peachplum, which is not genetic dwarf but is small. It worked for that as well. I plan to keep it pruned small so that the bundling is reasonably easy....See MoreCracking Indian Free peaches
Comments (9)Bart, my tree cracked more when it was younger -- it may grow out of it. I had a similar problem on my Wickson apple and I even cut down one of my two trees. The one I kept has not cracked for several years now. As trees get deeper roots they can get a more consistent water flow; too much water after a rain is the main cause of cracking. Scott...See Moresugar free (splenda) peach jam recipe??
Comments (21)Protien is many differnt things and amounts. It add a a nearlyt pure form of protein to a jelly is not something a home canner would want to do if the jars are stored on shelves. I never have seen any commercially makde jellies, jams or other fruit spreads that contain any gelatine. Many times the USDA may not comment, but that isn't to be a way to say that is ok to use it, only that they offer no factual data. If my great grandma used it and never got sick an dthe USDA recommends it use today, an dnoone can get sick, then maybe its fine. But with home canning being as less a test in homes today, and with all the risk takers out there handed down from ancestors, I just don't feel its a justified as a defence to just post recipes that a are hand-me-downs and generations old. Who knows how many people make have been sick or died from these things as many never get reported ever. Please, just play it safe, stick to TODAYS recipes and the ones that are most recently published, researched well, and are virtually foolproof and safe for everyone. Admittedly, I am a risk taker too, but with this kind of component originating from an animal based bypoduct, we can't assume its always going to be safe for use everywhere. Gelatin was also used in surgery, lighting, and photo work. Originally Eastman was the biggest producer an user. I don't know if Eastman, or Eastman Kodak would be making jelly using gelatin?? A reduce or no sugar sprread can be MUCH easier, and MUCH SAFER to make if the proper and far safer ingredients are used. Pomona (ALSO LOW METHOXYL!! with the seperate calcium packet included) has been around a long time and is the most commonly used pectin for use in the low, no sugar jellies, jams and other thickened spreads . After that comes, modified food starches, which are now also offered to home canners by National Starch, and is commonly known as Clear Jel, and also many other more specific commercially used starches.. Its use today, as far outweighed the very negative use of flour, tapioca, regular cornstarch, or other less table thickeners....See MorePeaches, peaches, and more peaches
Comments (6)This part of the state used to be orchard, but changes in distribution patterns, like they took out the narrow-gauge train in the early 50's, a lot of them have been bull dozed. There is one recently planted orchard way out on the edge of the Canyonlands National Monument, 40 acres of mixed fruit, a modern, high-tech orchard with drip and so on. Their location is perfect - no normal orchard pests, cool nights and warm days, and they avoid the nasty frosts we get. Anyway, the orchard has changed hands several times, couple bankruptcies in there, and was recently purchased by some folks who didn't get a chance to work it this year, so they let the public in to pick for free. What a bonanza. Everybody and their uncle were out there, tons and tons of free fruit. And yesterday I heard some folks bought up one of the best remaining peach orchards down in McElmo Canyon, and are going to bull doze that and build condos. I'll plant more fruit trees next spring....See Morechloebud
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