Saturday, I harvested nearly 6 lbs of plums while I was watering the garden. Most of them went to friends because there are another 6 lbs or more still on the tree! I also picked a bunch of apples (enough to make a crumble for the potluck we attended Saturday evening — yay to Zero Mile Fruit!)
Later in the evening I spent far too much time trying to determine the varieties of all the fruit on our trees. The Italian Prune Plum was a given and the neighbour’s plums (that fall in our yard) are likely Damson Plums. The apples are a little tricker but I think I’ve got something close to: a Gala (large, older tree), a Jonagold (mid-sized tree off the deck but nearer to the fence), a Fameuse/Snow Apple (mid sized tree nearer to the deck) and on the little trees, a Silken, a Worcester, and an unknown variety of crab-apple. We also have the Mariposa that is still too young to be fruit-bearing. Identification via the internet is, of course, about as reliable as determining an illness in the same manner, but it’s close enough that at least I have a reference point.
And today, at last, the first real harvest; beans, three types of carrots, a wee yellow zucchini, tomatoes, and more plums and apples:
