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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Sandcherries are not good to eat out of hand.  Really bad.  There
could be a way of preparing them by cooking to make them at least not
yucky.  I had a few "Toka" plums frozen in freezer.  I thawed them
out and ate them this morning.  Not too good.  Toka plums are
recommended for zone 4 on internet but a Univ of Minnesota fruit site
says they will grow in zone 3.  Nursery probably called my Toka cherry
-plums because they are smaller like cherry-plums.  
---- Original Message ----
From: mijwiz@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Toka plum
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:15:00 -0800 (PST)

>--- On Fri, 3/12/10, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com> wrote:
>> They were sold to me as Toka cherry-plum.
>
>Toka isn't a cherry plum, and I also don't think it's hardy in zone
>2. Cherry-plums are crosses between big juicy Asian plums and scrawny
>unpleasant tasting sandcherries. (So I hear.) Cherry plums are
>recommended to those poor unfortunates in zone 2 who can't grow Toka
>and other tasty Asian-American hybrids, but I hear that they're
>developing tastier cherry-plums these days.
>
>Melissa
>
>
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