Outlook Peachy for Maryland's Peach Crop

[jazz lady]

It's peach-pickin' time in some parts of Maryland, and the crop is expected to be large.

The U.S. Agriculture Department says Maryland growers will harvest 10.5 million pounds of peaches this year. That's a 50 percent increase from last year's drought-shriveled crop.

Growers in Montgomery and Cecil county report that early varieties are now available.

Further west, growers in the Catoctin Mountain fruit belt say it'll be a few more weeks before their peaches are ripe.

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Where's the best place in Southern Maryland to get some local peaches?

 

[mainman]

I loooooooooooooooooovvveeee to EAT peaches. However, the ones from Georgia are the sweetest....

 

[Rane]

We went to Cherry Hill in Clinton last year to pick peaches and raspberries last summer ... canned and froze some and also made peach butter and raspberry jam too ... was yummy If you go, be sure to sit on a rocker on the market's porch and have an ice cream ... delish... they make it there We plan on going again this summer Heres their web site :
http://www.cherryhillfarm.net/

 

[migtig]

Somehow I just don't think of Peaches when I think of Maryland :shrug:

 

[Rane]

Originally posted by mainman
I loooooooooooooooooovvveeee to EAT peaches. However, the ones from Georgia are the sweetest....

Mainman, I am originally from Georgia and I have to admit ... the peaches we picked in Clinton were every bit as good ...

 

[mainman]

Originally posted by Rane
Mainman, I am originally from Georgia and I have to admit ... the peaches we picked in Clinton were every bit as good ...

 

[migtig]

I bet they weren't as sweet as a true peach.
Don't worry Main, I caught the reference!

 

[mainman]

Originally posted by migtig
I bet they weren't as sweet as a true peach.
Don't worry Main, I caught the reference!

Im glad someone is on their p's and q's.
So when are you going back down?

 

[migtig]

Originally posted by mainman
Im glad someone is on their p's and q's.
So when are you going back down?

As soon as I can. I might just take a 3 day and go. I am dreadfully homesick, and I was last down in January!

 

[mainman]

Originally posted by migtig
As soon as I can. I might just take a 3 day and go. I am dreadfully homesick, and I was last down in January!

would you be a doll and let me go down on...with you? I meant with you

 

[migtig]

@ mainman

 

[Rane]

I figured there was an innuendo there about georgia peaches being sweet but seeing as I am not in the forum social loop I chose not to ask or make a comment sooo...

 

[migtig]

Originally posted by Rane
I figured there was an innuendo there about georgia peaches being sweet but seeing as I am not in the forum social loop I chose not to ask or make a comment sooo...

Where at in GA ya from? I'm a chatham county gal myself.

 

[Rane]

Originally posted by migtig
Where at in GA ya from? I'm a chatham county gal myself.

Migtig , I grew up an army brat and my Dad was stationed in Ft Benning a few times and we settled in Columbus when he retired , I went to high school there and a few yrs of college before I married my hubby ( he was my high school sweetheart then he joined the navy ) so I consider Georgia my home state , I still miss it , used to visit my parents all the time when we lived in Florida , my brother lives north of Atlanta, I think thats where I would like to retire to ... haven't decided yet . Go Braves

 

[migtig]

Originally posted by Rane
Go Braves

Sshhh demes fightin words around here! The burbs of Atlanta - like Dunwoody, ain't too bad, but I am not sure how close I would want to live to Atlanta proper. The Stone Mountain area isn't bad either. But I personally would head back down towards Savannah or maybe even Brunswick.

 

[Rane]

Originally posted by migtig
Sshhh demes fightin words around here! The burbs of Atlanta - like Dunwoody, ain't too bad, but I am not sure how close I would want to live to Atlanta proper. The Stone Mountain area isn't bad either. But I personally would head back down towards Savannah or maybe even Brunswick.

hehe thought you might appreciate that <doing the tomahawk chop > Buford is where my brother lives, its far enough away from the city but still .... there is the traffic anytime you want to go anywhere ...ugh ... savannah or brunswick would be nice, still close to the water ... we were in Jacksonville for many years, I wouldn't mind going back there either .

 

[Rane]

Originally posted by cariblue
Either of you been to Dahlonega? Speedo broke his finger pulling us over on the cable car and took a shower in one of the falls.

Ouch !! I've never been there but would love to go one day , we spent a great weekend in Blue Ridge one winter many years ago and went shopping in Helen, north Georgia is beautiful

 

[Rane]

Originally posted by cariblue
I have relatives in the Chamblee-Dunwoody area.

When I was eleven, my father relocated and moved us to that area. At the time, I had an uncle in Hapeville. That was real "small town" at then, and had another uncle south of Atlanta, can't remember the name of the town now, but it was even smaller. I saw my first snow in GA.

Buford is really nice, when I am visiting my brother it seems like we are out in the country, but 10 minutes down the road and you're at the MALL OF GEORGIA

I saw a lot of snow in Columbus one year when I was young ... '72 i think it was.

 

[mainman]

Originally posted by cariblue
suckup.

is that your pet name for me?:shrug:

 

[migtig]

I remember the first snow I saw in GA (since I was in an area where it never snowed) vividly. I had just got my license and was racing back from Garden City into Savannah and all this weird white stuff started floating around. I thought the Dixie Sugar plant had exploded! The cars in front of me pulled off to the side, so I did to, and everybody got out and we watched it snow. Never even touched the ground. Once it stopped, we all got back in our cars and went our merry way!