This year it was heavily laden. And today we decided to harvest the plums.
Some were very ripe, some just ripe, some not really ripe. But we picked them all anyway.
Well, when I say "we" ... The Under Gardener picked them and I sorted them and dusted them and removed the tiny, tiny snails and the stalks and took away the damaged and otherwise less than perfect ones.
We now have a mixing bowl full of damaged plums and 19kg of plums in the freezer. I freeze them whole and unblanched - they are then perfect for pies, cakes and tarts through the winter; slightly soggy but easy to de-stone.
19kg of plums set aside for the winter from one tree isn't bad, I reckon!
There are still the Bramleys, some more potatoes, tomatoes and butternut squash to come. The humungous freezer, large enough to house a woolly mammoth, is almost full :-S
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| This is what I did with some of the damaged plums |
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