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Posted: Jul/06/2009 8:05 PM PST
Plum is ripe. Been ripe for 1 or 2 months now. It's one fruit tree doing great in our area. Birds and humans enjoyed them.  It produced lots of fruit. Fruits almost gone from one tree (first picture). Will add details about the tree some time this week. The pics are from two seperate trees. PS. it's a Plum 'Beauty' tree. 
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Posted: Jul/06/2009 8:11 PM PST
Hubby says our Plum 'Green Gage' is ripe also but I haven't tasted the plum yet. These don't turn red.
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Posted: Jul/07/2009 5:18 AM PST
Rashell I want a bite..please!  Oh my goodness those look so mouth watering.Good for you, Oh I wish mine was doing what your is  . I also wish I had smellacomp so I could smell em..hahaha
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Posted: Jul/07/2009 9:01 PM PST
smellacomp!  I'm hoping my other fruit trees will do better next year. I was suppose to spray 'em all for insects before they fruited. I didn't  & somehow I have to figure out how to keep the birds away for next year. we have noticed birds picking at the plums. i'm sure now birds ate all our cherries! heehee, better start collecting old CDs for next year to hang on the trees. What is going on with your fruit trees? If i remember right you have bird/animal problems also? |
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Posted: Jul/08/2009 6:31 AM PST
Rashell, I put the CD's all over them, those birds/squirrels didn't care. They were out there pecking at em  . ALthough I found it comical but a little aggrivating at the same time. They have devoured all but my Pear Tree.Now, the Japanese Beetles are wreaking havoc on the Cherry Tree. I blast them everytime I turn around with the jet spray. I am so glad that I have a good nature about it.. Im so lieing right now. Im looking to have a smellacomp key installed -Oh I wish-
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Posted: Jul/08/2009 11:34 AM PST
I guess we have to collect nets then. Fruit tree netting is the only thing i can think of. It will keep away the birds but allow the bees to pollinate. No this is not a birds and the bees discussion. Either netting or we grow a pear farm. only tree birds stay away from here too. Bet they are waiting for the pears to ripen! |
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Posted: Jul/10/2009 1:17 AM PST
Hi Rashell,That is the only way I have got for saving my blackberries and tayberries and logan berries, with a net, loosly draped over the fruit bushes. I have to get the same amount again before I convert them into wine. I also run a few twig's into the greenhouse to make sure I have the fruit, but with the net, I have had the lot, so can continue getting the resty. The blueberries have a way to go yet, but the blackcurrants are nearly ready and I have to go and get another net, I am looking forward to converting the blueberries into wine though.. Never done it before, so I cannot tell or describe it to you...lol Huckleberrybob.... born in the uk, nah. just hasnt got the same ring.
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Posted: Jul/13/2009 10:20 AM PST
ooo how neat you make wine?! we have talked about it once before here at GG, i think in the recipe section of the forum. i was thinking about making my own once until I read how to make it. sheesh it's too much work for me. hope you post about it some day. would be nice to read how you make it. Born in east la ...just kidding.
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