Season
- Summer – watermelon, corn and tomatoes, cucumber, honeydew, cantaloupe,
NOTE: Smell the point where it was cut from the plant - Labor Day – Utah peaches
- November – Persimmons
- Hard squash (check out Butterkin) butternut and pumpkin cross
Peach Tips
- Clingstone – Used for lots of canned peaches
- Out of Hand – Freestone
- Muir – Yellow flesh
- Lovel – Yellow flesh
- Alberta – Yellow flesh
- White peaches – Lower acid content, less peachy but sweeter
- Mountain Rose
- Alexander
- Old Mixon
- Summer Snow
- Pick peaches from the tree when possible – California grows a lot
- Age in a paper bag – will soften, but will ripen no more
- OK to store in fridge to keep, but room temp before eating
