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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

I have a bunch of beach plum trees filled with fruit.  I thought I liked sour 
& tart fruit until I
tasted those.  Would love to hear some ideas of how to use them that dont 
involved saturating them
in sugar.

The trees are extremely precocious, branches break constantly because they 
dont really put on solid
wood they grow so fast.  Mine are around 5 years old & appear to be naturally 
dwarfing.

mIEKAL

Charles Paradise wrote:

> John,
> The first year or two of flowering, the beach plums don't set fruit that 
> year.  After a year or
> two of flowering, then they begin to set fruit.
> Yes, two of us here in new england have grown beach plum away from the 
> coast.
> It's fine to write an article in a magazine talking about a niche crop, but 
> if its to be grown
> commercially then an identifiable, reliable outlet for the fruit needs to 
> be confirmed.  The
> fruit is almost always very tart and I doubt it would find favor with most 
> people as an out of
> the hand fruit, and besides it is small compared with hand fruit.  I like 
> tart [I think Gala and
> Ginger Gold apples sweetness is just appalling] but the public likes sweet.
> Charlie Paradise
> Massachusetts/zone 5