I've got fantastic plums

[Glutton4...]

Mark, you can prop the damaged branch up with a wooden stake, getting it back into it's original position, and bandage it with hessian. I would also plaster vaseline over the broken area, to keep the weather/insects and infections out. Make sure to check it regularly, as you don't want the bandage to cut into the tree. Good luck.

[mrscorpio]

My Opal plum tree has its best ever crop this year, it is still only a small tree about 10 years old. Last year we picked 22lb
This year so far we have picked well over 30lb. We also had a branch snap off and i estimate at least 10lb of fruit was on that.
The tree is so heavily laden i can reach the plums even on the highest branches as they are all being pulled down.
My wife has made 4 plum and cinnamon cakes and 12 jars of plum and ginger jam so far.

[nannyphizz]

your so lucky, our opal died, was growing quite well till couple months ago,then suddenly gave up so did my rhubarb that was next to it.

[VirginVegGrower]

Would love to Bob but it's a bit of a bike ride.

I've been scrumping plums at work [we do pay for stuff scrumped and only scrump when the gardens team tell us there are things to be scrumped] for 3 weeks now; the Opal plums were absolutely mouthwatering and the cherry plums were a little sharper but all went into a couple of brews of wine.....and yesterday we went to Calke Abbey and I scrumped a few off a tree there and sucked on them when we were walked around.

Can't wait for my plum trees to become harvestable....total yummyness

*Not long to wait for the damsons....which blow the plums out of the water for taste.

Naughty girl! I'm getting on my bike and going to Calke tomorrow...which tree Z?(whispers)

[BUFFS]

as its the first year we have had a decent amount of fruiton our greengage,do they ripen earlier or later than plums?..dying to taste one of our own....

[shobhna]

My plum tree is loaded too. I have already been picking fruits for the last two days and am checking dails to stop the pesky wasps from getting in there. I am not sharing with them !!

I don't have a single pear on my pear tree though and in the last 4 years that it has been in my garden, it has only produced pears once and that was only 3 fruits. Don't know what I am doing wrong here.

[BUFFS]

i really enjoyed this blog,maybe not for the technical info,but for the unintended duble entendre,made me grin,very good read...

[Glutton4...]

i really enjoyed this blog,maybe not for the technical info,but for the unintended duble entendre,made me grin,very good read...

Sorry Buffs, most of us just have dirty minds. As does the fella that started it all.....

[bobleponge]

Oi G4 I resemble that remark, and Buffs, I can assure you I thought long and hard about my title!
My plum season has now finished, and my remaining ones are all dried and shrivelled.

[Glutton4...]

*Sniggers..

[BUFFS]

[QUOTE=bobleponge;880846]Oi G4 I resemble that remark, and Buffs, I can assure you I thought long and hard about my title!
My plum season has now finished, and my remaining ones are all dried and shrivelled.[/QUOTE
i dont wish to know that...TMI