"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:55:42 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:37:06 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

I've had a spectacular crop of plums and damsons this year which are
falling on to the path quicker than I can pick them up. There's only a
certain amount I can eat, the chickens are fed up with them, my
neighbours have their own trees, so I'll just have to sweep them onto
the borders and wait for the wasps.

One word: Jam.

Plums and Damsons are very easy to jam they have enough natural
pectin to form a set without too much bother.

Of course if you don't have any jam jars stored away (but who throws
out jam jars?) you might have a problem finding containers.

Not if you have a Lakeland close by.

You don't even need a Lakeland. In my neck of the woods, most of the
supermarkets have, if not Kilner jars, Kilner lookalikes. And many a
'department' store has same. Often cheaper than Lakeland too.