To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] sweet plum choices?
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:39:43 -0700
It's Italian prune plum season, and we're feasting. All summer I
have to answer the kids' question: When are the plums going to be
ready?
Now my question: Surely there are some earlier plums that are sweet
all through. Summer plums invariably seem to have either sour skins
or are sour around the stone. The yellow Japanese plum that is
widely grown here is not too bad. Greengage is a bother - I spend a
long time thinning, but too many succumb to brown rot.
So - please advise! Early, sweet from skin to stone, disease-resistant.
--
Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil