409034 Thu Jun 07 06:11:13 -0700 2007 11 11 South 0 2637867 I spent 2 years in Durham NC. During that time I developed a major passion for the peaches that were sold in Carrboro Market. There was a man who sold only peaches off the back of his truck. I believe the season was in July. Can anyone let me know if he still sells them, and if he will sell them again and when? I am planning a road trip down from Montreal just for these peaches!!!! Need to know when my best chances of settling my craving will be! I still dream of these peaches... Of course I will also get some of the heirloom tomatoes and the sweet potato pie and some watermelon rind pickle and BBQ and biscuits and fried chicken and and maybe some pimtento cheese!!!!! Thu Jun 07 06:11:13 -0700 2007 89969 moh 1 2637872 Unfortunately, I wouldn't count on many local peaches this year. There was a pretty brutal late freeze that crippled the Southeast's stone fruit crops. My guess is that what little managed to survive is going to be spoken for. I could be wrong, of course, but I'm not expecting many. Thu Jun 07 06:14:14 -0700 2007 2637867 16608 detlefchef 2 2638529 Oh dear! What a disaster! Please keep me posted if you hear any good noews about the peaches. I would still totally drive down if i thought there was a chance for 1 great peach.... Thu Jun 07 09:38:53 -0700 2007 2637872 89969 moh 3 2641526 i have to agree.... being in SC, the peach crop was nearly distroyed. the freeze occurred at exactly the WRONG time and lasted for a couple days. early reports say SC suffered over 90% crop loss. Fri Jun 08 07:20:25 -0700 2007 2638529 103605 scpierce 4 2658758 Disaster indeed. Is this also true throughout the South? Any Georgia reports? Am I completely out of luck this year? Thu Jun 14 02:27:39 -0700 2007 2641526 89969 moh 5 2659193 Everyone in the South is out of luck this year. The one-two punch of early bloom and hard freeze hit all across the South. I've heard reports of peach stands that are going as far as Pennsylvania just to have something to sell. And it wasn't just peaches. Apples were wiped out, too. Some blueberry and blackberry crops were hurt, although that's spottier. And white-wine grapes, particularly chardonnay and viogonier, were hit hard as well. Thu Jun 14 07:44:19 -0700 2007 2658758 18067 kathleen purvis 1 2658798 I am in Western NC and can tell you that we were hit hard by the Easter frost and high winds, the same was true of upstate SC and parts of GA. There will be some peaches but not a lot from local sources and they will be expensive. Thu Jun 14 04:09:55 -0700 2007 2637867 11596 leahinsc 1 2658802 My mother lives in central NC, about 90 minutes south of Durham. Any peaches from that area will only be the very late summer fruit from trees that bloomed a little later, and not a lot of that. There's a lot of unhappy peach eaters in my neighborhood, because I usually bring back 2-3 bushels from my summer trips to see her. Thu Jun 14 04:14:52 -0700 2007 2637867 50613 weezycom 1 2658951 I just got the Carrboro Market weekly newsleter and it stated they are not expecting any peaches this year because of the freeze. I was at the state farmer's market in Raleigh last weekend and there was one vender who had some peaches. Usually this time of year there are at least 4 or 5 venders who are selling nothing but peaches. I spoke with her and she said 70% of their crop was wiped out with the late freeze and most other farms had lost all of their crop (this could be marketing though... but given the other reports I am likely to believe it.) Thu Jun 14 06:13:31 -0700 2007 2637867 20248 jean9 2 2659734 yeah, my uncles in upstate SC lost apprx 100% of their peach crop. I have two apple trees in my yard and so far I have identified about 3 surviving apples. I'm still in denial. Thu Jun 14 09:59:33 -0700 2007 2658951 10471 danna 3 2662648 So sad, I hope the three surviving apples are yummy! I heard from another farmer that the first crop of blueberries was wiped out but there appears to be many in the farmer's markets currently, so I guess that won't affect the season too much. Fri Jun 15 06:17:15 -0700 2007 2659734 20248 jean9 4 2662724 I got my eagerly awaited first newletter from my "fruit guy" yesterday. His farm is about 5 miles from my house, about 10 miles south of the SC/NC border. He has raspberries and blackberries, one variety of plum, but lost all the rest of the stone fruit (no peaches, nectarines, apricots). He expects to get figs & grapes only on the late harvest. He expects to have some varieties of apples, ginger gold, paula red, mcintosh. I'll take what I can get. Last I heard, blueberries were not wiped out, but damaged somewhere between 25% and 75% in this area. I know my Mom's blueberries look like they have maybe 25% of a crop. But I notice that up in Pisgah National forest, the wild blueberries look normal. Things must not have bloomed so early at altitude. Fri Jun 15 06:49:13 -0700 2007 2662648 10471 danna