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[Peter Chrisbacher <pxbacher@gmail.com>]

Last year I collected enough fruit at the beach in DE to make several jars
of delicious jam.

Two weeks ago I discovered some seeds statifying in my fridge and planted
them in a pot on my patio (under hardware cloth thanks to a squirrel and a
lesson learned with persimmon seed).  I hope to find some sprouting when I
get home later this week.

Even if I don't take another beach vacation this year, I plan to drive down
for a day trip in early-mid August to collect fruit for another batch of
jam.

Pete Chrisbacher
Kennett Square PA (right near West Chester!)

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com> wrote:

> In case anyone is interested, I devote a whole chapter to beach plums in
> my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden. As I point out in the chapter,
> beach plums do not need beaches to grow well; I've grown them for many
> years here in the Hudson Valley of New York. The worst thing about the
> plants, as far as I'm concerned, is that they are very erratic in
> production. The best thing is that the fruit has fine flavor, even fresh in
> the best clones, and the bushes are beautiful. They do flower reliably.
> Quoting from my book, "Blossoming is so profuse that in 1932 two
> scientists from the Arnold Arboretum were able to plot the distribution of
> wild stands by observing them from an airplane at bloom time."
>
> Lee Reich, PhD
> Come visit my farmden at http://leereich.blogspot.com/
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>
> Books by Lee Reich:
> A Northeast Gardener's Year
> The Pruning Book
> Weedless Gardening
> Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
> Landscaping with Fruit
> Grow Fruit Naturally
>
> On Jul 9, 2013, at 3:13 AM, Bove, Roger Even (Retired) wrote:
>
> > Beach plum jam used to be our standard gift to friends after we visited
> Cape Cod. Sadly, there don't seem to be enough beach plums available to
> make the jam anymore.
> > I tried planting beach plums in West Chester PA a few years ago, but all
> the seedlings that I bought died.
> >
> > Roger Even Bove, PhD
> > Department of Economics & Finance (retired)
> > West Chester University
> > West Chester PA 19383-2220
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