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[Del Stubbs <northernlights2n@yahoo.com>]

We are at last getting a few plums (curculios got most despite our attempts 
at using
Surround)
The large red Pembinas have really attracted bird pecks - including equally 
the ones I
covered with the little nylon 'footies'.
South Dakota plums are a small sweet flesh / sweet skin yellow gold color, 
the tree is 
right next to the Pembina and not a single bird peck even without footies. 
We have Evans cherries in the same vicinity - bright red - and very little 
bird pecking
on them, go figure. I did slide an entire nylon stocking over a branch when I 
saw a robin
carry away an entire cherry, its beak hilariously ajar - the stocking stopped 
all pecking
/taking, so we got to taste Evans fully ripe and sweet.
Compass cherry plum is more like a cherry in size, dark purple and no 
depredation. 
Manchurian Cherry bush goes from bright red to very dark when ripe, 
absolutely loaded.  I
saw few pecks, but presume it was chipmunks that stripped nearly the entire 
bush the
night before I was to pick. Wonderful rich cherry jam from what I did get.
Del

Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com   zone 3a   N. MN


       
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