Spring / Fall prices

We are getting close to spring so the world below the equator is getting close to fall harvest time.
I guess that's why when I went to Pathmark (supermarket) tonight, they had peaches, plums, nectarines and two or three types of grapes for 99 cents/lb.
Hell, at those prices, I could make my own booze. :D

I love this time of year because organic navel oranges are under $1/lb, and the oranges themselves often weigh over a pound each.

juicy..

mm.

I bought some of these things called Honeybells--a hybrid orange. Ungodly expensive and shipped from Florida. They weren't so much juicy as they were water-y. No taste. I was sooooo disappointed. I had citrus regret for weeks.

I love tomatoes...they are SO expensive in Spring (where I'm at) and SO much cheaper in the fall !

Welcome to the Cellar, Spearmint Of Wrigley. Try not to gum up the works.:lol:

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

.. they had peaches...

A peach from somewhere other than Georgia or South Carolina is little more than a picture of a peach. And that includes those peach-colored baseballs from California

oh gawd xoB..... that was bad (I'm sayin that cause I didn't think of it myself).

Seasonal stuff up here? Ha! We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall.
Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.

Beestie wrote:

A peach from somewhere other than Georgia or South Carolina is little more than a picture of a peach.

I don't know, Beestie. There are some darn amazing peaches here in Jersey. In August. :rolleyes:

Pie wrote:

I don't know, Beestie. There are some darn amazing peaches here in Jersey. In August. :rolleyes:

Cute. you know what I wonder? How come women never say, "Well, Sally, I gotta tell ya, there's some damn fine bananas out today, if you catch my drift!" Why don't we ever do that?

seakdivers wrote:

We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall.
Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.

You probably get your domesticated strawberries (just called "berries" around here) from us in Ventura County. First crop's just in, and the big crop comes in in late May. The Grade-A chocolate-dippers are the size of a baby's fist, and they have good flavor too, maybe not quite as intense as a wild strawberry but not the low-taste stuff we used to see in the seventies. We've gotten modest rain this season, nothing too savage -- heavy rains at the wrong time beat up strawberries, literally battering the fruit and rotting them on the plants, and flooding plants out of the fields.

We're wondering how to keep pests out of the berries with methyl bromide being phased out.

Skunks, when I lived in Annapolis MD, I encountered a supermarket binful of oranges -- and guess how they spelled "navel." Yep. I thought that was a bit much even for Annapolis, and went to the bother of eyeballing several oranges looking for a little blue-inked anchor stamp. Maybe I should have looked in Bancroft Hall instead.

Speaking of Bananas (and I have wondered the same Brianna).

I paid $5.99 per kilo tonite. Buggeration... I love Nanies!!

They are blaming the Cyclones, but seriously, that wont come into play for another few weeks.

Thieving bastards

Pithy Euphemist ...thats being a tad generous isnt it??

seakdivers wrote:

oh gawd xoB..... that was bad (I'm sayin that cause I didn't think of it myself).

Seasonal stuff up here? Ha! We have fiddlehead ferns in the spring, salmonberries, blueberries, wild strawberries & huckleberries in the summer, and a bunch of dead leaves in the fall.
Everything else is shipped in from who knows where.

What the hell is a salmonberry? :confused: Sounds icky. :sick:

Salmonberry is in the raspberry/blackberry family....very tasty. They are salmon colored (sort of) and not fishy. :yum:

Glad you cleared that up Bruce. I was TOTALLY buffaloed there for a while.
Georgia peaches are best. I live near a peach farm and I always go there during harvest to gorge out on their freshly made (churned as you watch) peach ice cream and piping hot outa the grease fried peach tarts. Dammit, boy....

Yep, salmonberries are very much like raspberries, but they aren't quite as flavorful. They come in orange & red, and the name stems from a variety of sources. One is that they (the orange ones) look like clusters of salmon eggs, and another is that the bears start heading for the salmon streams before the salmon are there, so they eat the salmonberries instead.
I'm sure xoB's explaination is correct too - the natives up here have multiple stories & reasons for everything!

Just in case you want to order some, their season opens in May.

No spam intended. They just have damn good stuff.

The peach stuff I mean.

You get peaches and other what would be late summer fruits for us, in May there?




We get Strawberrys, then watermellon, raspberrys, Late summer fruit , peaches and blackberrys, cherrys

not sure exactly when the harvest starts....

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