Bell of Georgia

In celebration of National Peach Month we are going to feature a few different peach varieties on our blog throughout the month of August. The Belle of Georgia peach, part of the Rosaceae family (and a distant cousin of the rose), was one of the first varieties of peaches to be grown in Georgia back in the early 1880s. Peaches originally became the premier cash crop of Georgia around 1870 when a tiny little vermin called the “boll weevil” wiped…

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