Tag: plum | Orchard Notes

Orchard Visit: Two at Phillips Park, Prestwich

A winter walk leads to the discovery of not one but two new orchards, one on the site of a former kitchen garden.

We’ve had a mixed year on our allotment plot orchard. Here’s a round-up of the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

This eighteenth century method for drying greengages calls for candying your plum(b)s in syrup before setting them to dry.

I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.

Two nights of bad weather after early blossom has bloomed is bad news, but hopefully not the end of this year’s crop.

The anonymous author of this 18th century tract takes time our from moralising to make something jammy.

2020 has been a rather excellent year for fruit blossom. Here’s a gallery of some examples I’ve seen in various places.

Improving the branch structure of an overgrown and crowded plum tree on our allotment plot.

Just when I thought the 2019 aphid night mare might have ended…