Seed Keepers

["Cindie Strater" <tovaryn@gmail.com>]

Lawrence, how cold does it get where you harvest the wild plums?  I wonder if they would survive the winter here in central Illinois.  Are they small trees or large shrubs?  Do they set fruit on old wood or new?  Old I think, but I'm wondering if they would survive a freeze and bounce back.

I might want a few pits to try, if you have plenty.  We've been working on landscaping our one-acre yard.  We're planning an edible landscape and wild plums would fit right in.

Off topic comment: I just got back from a long weekend in South Carolina.  The Carolinas are beautiful now.  :)  It was a real stinker coming back to cold, gray, wet Illinois. 

I saw buds swelling on the redbud, grapes and blackberries.   So, there is hope...

 

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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:05:43 -0400
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
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Carol Moss wrote:

> Busy planting, but lurking....
>  Carol
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:27 PM, <bob@4agoodauction.com
> <mailto:bob@4agoodauction.com>> wrote:
>
>     Still here----------bob c


Good show! It'll rebound in time I'm sure. I am planting also
and can think about plant material for exchange in a month or so.
The wild plum tree I mentioned earlier is totally covered with blooms this Spring
so I'll have plenty of seed pits to send out. I'd like to see how well they propagate from seed.
These trees also send out underground runners to regenerate, just like wild persimmons.
The everbearing blackberries will be sending up new shoots from the ground. I hope to have at least a
half dozen of these to swap.

LL