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Looking for plums
Anybody have plums they want to sell? I want to make some jelly.
Gary Brady |
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Gary,
It might be too early in the season to pick most varities of plums. Maybe a gardner can tell us. In austin.food, "Wooly" said he bought some plums at a roadside stand near Fredericksburg. They might be an early variety, or they might be shipped in to augment the stand's produce. IMHO jam/jelly made from sweet eating plums can lack flavor. I like jam made from the wild sand plum/Oklahoma plum/sour plum: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/o...unusgracil.htm Sand plums are small, only a bit larger than grapes. They don't grow in Central Texas. I think it would be worth while to locate a source if you are going to the troube to make homemade plum jelly. You have time as they will not be ripe until about August. jjhnsn |
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Apparently there are several cultivated varieties of plums which do ripen in
early summer. My wife suggested that Jim Kamas, Ag. Extension Agent for Gillespie County, would know which plum varieties are best for jelly. She also provided this information: "Here's a list of peach farms in the Fredricksburg area. Quite a few also list plums on their websites; however, looks like most of them are harvested in June. They don't give the varieties of plums grown. http://www.texaspeaches.com/ " jjhnsn |
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"Here's a list of peach farms in the Fredricksburg area. Quite a few also list plums on their websites; however, looks like most of them are harvested in June. They don't give the varieties of plums grown. http://www.texaspeaches.com/ " jjhnsn Thanks for that list. Gary |
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