Thursday, February 18, 2016

Plums!

Plums. Lots of them this season. And the best ones so far here at CTF have been the Luisa variety, which is a Japanese type of plum. We have 2 trees of this variety and they have done really well, producing lots of huge juicy fruit.




 The Luisa plums can get pretty big...

Here's a link to a page telling about the history of the plum in NZ - you need to scroll down to almost the bottom of the forum to see the post. Very interesting.

 http://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/1490840/luisa-plum

We are suffering with very high humidity here at the moment (approx 96%) and many of the other stone fruit trees are succumbing to rot, but not the Luisa plum. It's fantastic. We have picked numerous kilos of fruit, it's a real winner! I have bottled them in the past but we are not eating much bottled fruit now that we have cut down on sugar, and besides these plums taste best when fresh.

5 comments:

Richard said...

Where is the link? :-)

Cabbage Tree Farm said...

Sorry! Added in now :-)

Charlotte Scott said...

Yum! Plums are one of my favourite fruits. And they are great as a savoury condiment with meat too. What about drying some? I don't know how they'd go if they aren't prune types, but it'd be an interesting experiment.

Cabbage Tree Farm said...

Hi Charlotte
I might try that. I've not had a lot of success drying fruit before, maybe not dry enough before storing? Has tended to spoil too quickly, perhaps the high humidity a problem too. Have you dried much fruit?

BLD in MT said...

That is a beautiful sight! How lovely!