I bought two bushel of Red Haven peaches out of Pa. They have hail damage and were apparently picked way to green. The pits aren't coming out well, acting like clingstones, and I am squishing them to get the pits. That is if they aren't rotten from the hail damage. The texture of many of them is sort of stringy. I knew it was a bad year for them. If these blasted things hadn't cost so much the chickens would be getting more of them than they are now!!!!! Going to check out some from another place, hoping they are better. Probably won't have any NY peaches this year due to early hot weather then frosts.

If you have done peaches, how were they? I am really hoping my next bushel is better. I usually look forward to canning them but not this batch!

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What peaches?! I usually get plenty from a family friend, but this year they grew to the size of golf balls and then rotted.

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I bought two lugs of Elberta Faye peaches (shipped from CA) this weekend. I haven't had time to can them yet, but the ones that we've snitched to eat fresh have been really good.

Orange County NY Peaches are small but flavorful . I buy seconds for canning , the early ones went bad fast but now they are excellent! Nectarines are great also

DD3 got 2 bushel from Arkansas about 2 weeks ago. Very good and nice sized. Ours here might not be good as it is so dry. Probably just pits and skin.

Texas peaches this year are fabulous. The best year in a long time. Not mine, as my tree is dying, but I went and picked at two different orchards this year and they were fabulous.

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Sounds like the harvest is running the gamet, good to none.

I just picked up another bushel. These are also from Pa and they look a lot better, not perfect but they cost $17.00 a bushel less! I am about halfway through the first batch, must have thrown away about twenty peaches. Flavor is so so.

Vicki, did you get the frost after the early heat in March? Much of local fruit went kaput early on in central and northern NY.

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I got local peaches here, early variety, definitetly NOT freestone...what a pain. They were ok but not the best thing I've ever eaten, they canned up ok.

I get local peaches at the farmers market. They're wonderful. But last week I bought some from a parking lot and wow, they're horrible. Hard as a rock and impossible to skin. I sure wish I'd inspected them more carefully before I bought them.

I went to Lancaster and bought two bushel. They were wonderful! Best peaches we ever had. We canned up 9 quarts and made buckle, cobbler, and peach and blueberry pie.

I got 1 1/2 bushels of freestone from York PA. They were good, although not as good as last year's peaches. The person who picked and delivered them said that they had to go to three different orchards in that area just to get enough to fill their orders, the crop wasn't very good. She also told me that some orchards had nothing--the frost probably got to them earlier this year.

Tab , Frost was spotty here so we did okay.