[Sca-cooks] Preserving peaches

[Stefan li Rous]

Cheri replied to me with:

<<< A?late frost (in?spring)?is when it freezes after the trees have  
bloomed and thus kills the buds which would have produced fruit at the  
end of the season.
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An early frost (in fall) can damage already grown fruit that is just  
needing more time to ripen completely.
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Hope that clears it up...learning the hard way in Washington state.
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Cheri >>>

Thank you. That makes sense. It also makes clear why you might lose  
just part of the harvest and not all of it. I was thinking just of  
harvest time and wasn't thinking about the fact that "early" could  
actually at the start rather than the end of the season.

Like I said, I'm not a farmer. :-)

Stefan
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