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.
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Plot #79 Orchard Year in Review, 2021 Edition
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.
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Mary Smith, on Drying ‘Green Gage Plumbs’
This eighteenth century method for drying greengages calls for candying your plum(b)s in syrup before setting them to dry.
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Elizabeth Moxon’s 1764 Recipe for ‘Plumb Porridge’
This eighteenth century version of porridge definitely isn’t the porridge we know and love today, plumb or otherwise.
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Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes
I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.
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Au Revoir to Pear, Plum and Damson Blossom?
Two nights of bad weather after early blossom has bloomed is bad news, but hopefully not the end of this year’s crop.
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A Lady’s 1701 Recipe for ‘Paste of Plumbs’
The anonymous author of this 18th century tract takes time our from moralising to make something jammy.
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Gallery: Top-Fruit Blossom, Spring 2020
2020 has been a rather excellent year for fruit blossom. Here’s a gallery of some examples I’ve seen in various places.
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Restoration Pruning of an Overgrown Plum Tree
Improving the branch structure of an overgrown and crowded plum tree on our allotment plot.
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Aphid Update: Damson Saved, Plum Under Threat
Just when I thought the 2019 aphid night mare might have ended…
