The plum tree at Castle Cannon is particularly full this year.
We've always had a fairly good crop, but this time around, it seems to be exceptional. I'm wondering if it had anything to do with the tree surgeon cutting it back a few years ago.
We used to have two plum trees, but the one at the top of the grounds of Castle Cannon keeled over. I suspect it was a combination of poor root depth, the tree being too tall (Apparently, that's a thing?) and the weight of the plums.
It's a shame because the fruit is delicious, and we like plums, but the truth of the matter is that they'll all end up in the bin because a punnet of plums is not quite the same as half a tonne! 🤣
A few people have suggested these fruit pickers who'll come and take all your fruit away to turn into jam or wine etc., but we don't seem to have any round where I live, and I'm not sure I fancy strangers traipsing the grounds of the estate anyway.
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That is a lot of plums.....
You could open a plum stand on Saturday and Sunday in front of your house and give them away. I am sure you have time for that!! LOL
Isn't there a neighbor? With kids? they pick them, and you make the wine!! Or jam. Jam might go faster. Or a shelter? Would they take them and hand them out to those in need before they get rotten?
As I said, it's a lot of work. :-(
What a bountiful crop! I hope you find a use for them all! It would be sad to see them go to waste.
I know, but there's too many to eat. Years ago I was working in a hospital that had a plum tree on the grounds. One of the old boys kept going to it and eating the damn things. We warned him, and at his age, he should have known better. A couple of hours later: "I need to go home and change my trousers." 🤣🤣
Mind you, this was the bloke who laid a new lawn one weekend and came to work on the Monday: "I can't find my glasses; I thought they might be here?" You guessed it, he'd laid the lawn over his glasses! 🤦♂️
There is a grove of wild plums down the road from me and my daughter always goes and picks some and brings me a jar of her delicious plum jam. The wild ones are red, and much smaller than yours.
I understand about loosing glasses... It's difficult to see where you might have left them! 🤓
Nobody goes blackberry picking anymore either. There's a bush at the end of our road growing through the fence off the railway embankment packed full of free berries. TBH, I bet there's loads of free fruit if you know where to look.
You do know that you can make Slivovitz from them ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz
Yeah, my mate on Twitter suggested Plum Wine. Sounds like a lot of work. :-(
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I didn't even have to ask you to show me your plums! We had a good crop, but a lot got wasted. We just can't use them all, but gave some away. Those I ate straight off the tree were lovely. The tree probably needs a prune.
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you could batch them up and sell them to Asda?!
As I said, there are organisations that will come round and harvest fruit for free, but there's none where I live.
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Thats a shame.
How do you reach them, they are high up.
Shake it. Although you could end up being called "Plumb Head." 🤣
Given my lamentations about the demise of sending small boys up chimnies, I'm looking forward to my grandson reaching four or five when he will hopefully be able to shimmy up the branches to retrieve them. 😉