Right now I have every bird in the neighborhood pecking away at them, raccoons climbing up and breaking branches, and there's a bear in the neighborhood. its a real mess - I need to pick them or lose the tree.

Any suggestions? I'm currently washing them all off and leaving them indoors in nursery trays, newspaper on the bottom, a single layer deep, to hopefully develop more flavor.

Cut out bad spots and boil them whole with a small amount of water or apple juice till soft and mushy paste. Just enough water/juice to keep them from sticking and scorching.

Then strain out all the seeds and most of the peel and make peach jam by adding some of the meat to the juice or peach syrup out of the drainings. A couple layers of cheescloth works good. You'll want to add extra sugar to taste before jaring to offset any bitterness the seeds might have imparted.

Something an old neighbor lady taught me that she does with all her really junky peach crop.

Dave

I also have one of those steam juice extractors, which would make it fairly easy to get out the juice. Then I could pick out the seeds, run the skins/remaining flesh through a food strainer.

Dave

For the small ones, I juiced them with a steam juicer, then boiled the result down by half and canned the concentrated juice, I got 4 quarts. I'll use that in gravies and stews.

These were white peaches, and to be honest, I dunno why I planted that tree. Compared to the yellow varieties, these things are so tasteless........