sickpup
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wild plumsi found some trees the other day in the park with what i think are plums, the tree matches the one in my books but everything i read says they are either purple, green or yellow and the plums i saw are red. Can you get red ones?
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Minamoo
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Hello! You can indeed get red plums. and they are oh so scrummy. They make such divine plum jam. It tastes nothing like the tat you get when you buy plum jam from the shops. All tart and sweet. Ooooh I wish I was home right now so badly! There are no wild plums to be had in Nairobi. 
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Rob R
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Probably plums not wild though, our wild ones are still green & will be for a while yet, before they turn deep purple.
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cab
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As I sit here I'm waiting for a frightening volume of wild red plum chutney to reduce down to the point where its ready to go into the jars...
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Rob R
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In July? Is this a North/South thing?
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cab
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| Rob R wrote: | | In July? Is this a North/South thing? |
Cherry plums have been good for about a month here now, they're still coming fast though. 'Proper' plums are also ripening well, varieties like 'Herman' are certainly available locally now, and some of the earlier wildling plums are ripe too.
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LynneA
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Picking a handful of cherry plums from the hedge opposite the house most days, and saving the stones from damaged fruits for a joint project with next door.
Somehow doubt we'll ever have enough to make chutney
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Rob R
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Wow, I'd always understood them to be at least a month away from now. Can't wait until mine are ready... 
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cab
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| Rob R wrote: | | Wow, I'd always understood them to be at least a month away from now. Can't wait until mine are ready... |
Very much depends on variety. Most of the main varieties of plum are miles away yet, but for sure any cherry plums up your way won't be far off (I'd be amazed if the trees I've seen in Hull aren't ready, out in the sticks they may be a bit behind).
I rekon you're about three weeks behind us on most fruit crops.
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tahir
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Early Rivers should be about now down here. Had some gorgeous plums last week off a tree of unknown variety at my sisters last weekend.
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Rob R
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I don't think I could tell you where there's a cherry plum growing wild round here 
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cab
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| Rob R wrote: | | I don't think I could tell you where there's a cherry plum growing wild round here |
Pretty definitely some in Hull... Can't immediately tell you where there are any in or around York. Definitely picked them n a place called Grindley on the Hill which is somewhere in deepest, darkest Yorkshire (near Doncaster is it?). Way less of them up there than down here though; Cambridge has more cherry plum and plum trees than anywhere else I know.
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JB
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Do plums alternate productive years in the same way that apples can? This year I'm getting a good crop of plums, last year we had about two, year before that was excellent ... (year before that I lived elsewhere so my sample runs out)
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tahir
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| JB wrote: | | Do plums alternate productive years in the same way that apples can? |
Absolutely, you can change this by amongst other things pruning and thinning
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cab
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| JB wrote: | | Do plums alternate productive years in the same way that apples can? This year I'm getting a good crop of plums, last year we had about two, year before that was excellent ... (year before that I lived elsewhere so my sample runs out) |
They do, and thats made all the more noticeable when you get an off year with bad conditions (late frost mostly did for the flowers here last year) followed by a bumper year (no late frost, dry spell during flowering, wet spell during fruit swelling and ripening). Local news story on telly this morning mentioned that its a bumper year for plums in the orchards.
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