The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: doganjo on August 18, 2013, 11:09:12 pm
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I have a friend's lab staying for a couple of weeks and decided to let him have a romp with Belle in the front paddock - I think I should start calling it an orchard :excited: :excited: I just found and picked 30 plums! Absolutely delicious - well the first 6 are anyway, the others aren't quite so ready but if I left them they'd grow legs. Must keep an eye on the apples as they are doing well too, and they were taken off the trees last year before they were ripe, and thrown all around the field, lane and driveway - guess if they ere too sour for the thieves to eat they weren't going to leave the rest of them long enough for anyone else to enjoy :rant:.
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Well done - the first fruit is always exciting. Enjoy :thumbsup:
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Mmmm, I love plums. I don't have any here but had a small tree in my previous place that always had loads of fruit.
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I've got 3 plum trees and not a lot of fruit between them. What fruit I do have is still green. So I'm very jealous as some lucky people are eating plums already.
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love a fruity surprise!
Have been joking about my "small pear" - thought there was only one (an improvement on last year when they were all blown off!) but turns out to be about 9! Very excited... ;)
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We have cleared our heron plum trees (they are may favourites!) and now have to wait on the Vic's. I kind of go off of plums this time of year :-J
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Must keep an eye on the apples as they are doing well too, and they were taken off the trees last year before they were ripe, and thrown all around the field, lane and driveway - guess if they ere too sour for the thieves to eat they weren't going to leave the rest of them long enough for anyone else to enjoy :rant: .
Don't people that do that sort of thing make you mad? My mum used to have a bungalow on a corner plot so it had a very long frontage. She had planted hundreds of daffodils and they were all opening nicely until the day she looked out to find someone had ripped the heads off loads and dumped them on the pavement. She said she would have minded if they had taken a load home for their mum. It was the wanton destruction that upset her.
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I have to admit I was angry, but I picked them all up and made chutney with them. :innocent:
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Well done. ;D
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Oooh, much check mine. I've got baby plum trees - planted last winter - but the Victoria produced a handful of fruit so I've left a couple on there just to try them. We had the first couple of ripe figs today so the time must be nigh!
And, yes, wanton vandalism is awful. My parents had the same a few years back with daffs planted on their front bank.
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I have 2 plum trees but one has silverleaf :( so on the advice of our Orchard Group I have dismantled one part of it to try and slow the spread but its days are numbered sadly. The crop on it is still reasonable despite the summer prune it got, but they're green yet as are the ones on the other wee tree at the far end of the orchard which are quite heavy crop this year and very welcome since last was such a wipeout all round and it'll soon be the one and only plum :(