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23-08-2009, 06:31 PM
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Return of the Plums
One lot of plums out of the way. The next tree is now just about ready and
is heavily laden. The stall at the front can't cope, it clears about 5 bags a day, each bag of one and a half pounds selling for 50p. Cupboards are jammed with jam. The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark |
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23-08-2009, 06:33 PM
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Return of the Plums
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:31:25 +0100, "mark"
wrote: One lot of plums out of the way. The next tree is now just about ready and is heavily laden. The stall at the front can't cope, it clears about 5 bags a day, each bag of one and a half pounds selling for 50p. Cupboards are jammed with jam. The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark Plum wine? About 10 gallons should use a tree full. Steve -- Neural Planner Software Ltd www.NPSL1.com |
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23-08-2009, 06:40 PM
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"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message ... On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:31:25 +0100, "mark" wrote: One lot of plums out of the way. The next tree is now just about ready and is heavily laden. The stall at the front can't cope, it clears about 5 bags a day, each bag of one and a half pounds selling for 50p. Cupboards are jammed with jam. The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark Plum wine? About 10 gallons should use a tree full. That idea has been earmarked for next year. Haven't made sufficient preparation this time round, getting all the demijohns, tubes and bungs etc. mark |
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23-08-2009, 06:40 PM
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Return of the Plums
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, mark wrote:
One lot of plums out of the way. The next tree is now just about ready and is heavily laden. The stall at the front can't cope, it clears about 5 bags a day, each bag of one and a half pounds selling for 50p. Cupboards are jammed with jam. The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg Please don't feel you're alone! ;-) Try my recipe for plum relish. Makes good Christmas presents! David -- David Rance writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France |
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23-08-2009, 06:57 PM
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Return of the Plums
"mark" wrote in message o.uk... One lot of plums out of the way. The next tree is now just about ready and is heavily laden. The stall at the front can't cope, it clears about 5 bags a day, each bag of one and a half pounds selling for 50p. Cupboards are jammed with jam. The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg They look wonderful! Send them to me  |
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24-08-2009, 09:54 AM
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Return of the Plums
"mark" wrote in message o.uk... One lot of plums out of the way. The next tree is now just about ready and is heavily laden. The stall at the front can't cope, it clears about 5 bags a day, each bag of one and a half pounds selling for 50p. Cupboards are jammed with jam. The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark Start selling the jam? |
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24-08-2009, 12:07 PM
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Return of the Plums - What variety ?
Hi,
I'm thinking of planting a plum tree, what variety do you recommend ? KK "mark" wrote in message o.uk... One lot of plums out of the way. The next tree is now just about ready and is heavily laden. The stall at the front can't cope, it clears about 5 bags a day, each bag of one and a half pounds selling for 50p. Cupboards are jammed with jam. The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark |
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24-08-2009, 07:26 PM
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Return of the Plums - What variety ?
dido22 wrote:
Hi, I'm thinking of planting a plum tree, what variety do you recommend ? KK Catalina plum, large and sweet. Seems to always set fruit no matter a late freeze. Have to do a lot of thinning in a good year. -- signature goes here |
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25-08-2009, 02:16 PM
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Return of the Plums
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:31:25 +0100, mark wrote:
The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark Send them to the Queen. Doesn't the song say 'Send her Victorias'? |
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26-08-2009, 10:38 AM
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On 2009-08-25 14:16:23 +0100, Derek Turner said:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:31:25 +0100, mark wrote: The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark Send them to the Queen. Doesn't the song say 'Send her Victorias'? Groaaaannnn! BTW, Derek, we have some new Jersey Sunrise and I'm saving you some seed from those because I'm beginning to wonder if the others have hybridised. How did they turn out with you? These, which we've grown here this year, came from Jersey from someone who always grows only J Sunrise. The fruits are wonderful for flavour and the leaves are a bit different to the others we have. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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26-08-2009, 03:21 PM
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:38:19 +0100, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-08-25 14:16:23 +0100, Derek Turner said: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:31:25 +0100, mark wrote: The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark Send them to the Queen. Doesn't the song say 'Send her Victorias'? Groaaaannnn! BTW, Derek, we have some new Jersey Sunrise and I'm saving you some seed from those because I'm beginning to wonder if the others have hybridised. How did they turn out with you? These, which we've grown here this year, came from Jersey from someone who always grows only J Sunrise. The fruits are wonderful for flavour and the leaves are a bit different to the others we have. As chance would have it, I had the first one to ripen for my lunch today: it was very nice! but then a home-grown one straight from the vine is always going to taste better than a Checkers one, whatever the variety. I'd love to receive some of the new batch of seeds, thank you. Perhaps I can grow enough for me and my fellow allotment-holders so that we can keep the strain pure! |
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26-08-2009, 05:34 PM
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Return of the Plums
On 2009-08-26 15:21:53 +0100, Derek Turner said:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:38:19 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2009-08-25 14:16:23 +0100, Derek Turner said: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:31:25 +0100, mark wrote: The freezers full! Now this: http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/q...003/162823.jpg mark Send them to the Queen. Doesn't the song say 'Send her Victorias'? Groaaaannnn! BTW, Derek, we have some new Jersey Sunrise and I'm saving you some seed from those because I'm beginning to wonder if the others have hybridised. How did they turn out with you? These, which we've grown here this year, came from Jersey from someone who always grows only J Sunrise. The fruits are wonderful for flavour and the leaves are a bit different to the others we have. As chance would have it, I had the first one to ripen for my lunch today: it was very nice! but then a home-grown one straight from the vine is always going to taste better than a Checkers one, whatever the variety. I'd love to receive some of the new batch of seeds, thank you. Perhaps I can grow enough for me and my fellow allotment-holders so that we can keep the strain pure! I'll send them off soon. We'll ask the same gardener if he can spare some from his plants, too and then I'm going to ask Ray if he can find room to keep them somewhere away from all the others next year, just to be on the safe side. I want to try San Marzano, too because with enough sun I think their flavour is sublime. Enough sun being the problem, of course! Glad to hear your first taste was a good one! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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