Just Peachy

The peach tree on the southern wall
  Has basked so long beneath the sun,
Her score of peaches great and small
  Bloom rosy, every one.

A peach for brothers, one for each,
  A peach for you and a peach for me;
But the biggest, rosiest, downiest peach
  For Grandmamma with her tea.

—Christina Rossetti in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book

Hooray! It’s peach season again. Here are my previously posted instructions for putting up peaches.

Comments

[candy]

Do you can tomatoes? I am getting into the local food movement and I think I would eventually like to can tomatoes, but I hear you have to add lemon juice these days. My mother and grandmother were always canning something.

[rebecca]

I don't can tomatoes. Tomatoes don't grow well here except in a green house, which make them much too precious to can.

But yes, I've heard they have to be canned differently now in order to be safe. They're less acidy than than they used to be or something.