We have several fruit trees in our yard that I bought over the years, usually at season ending sales. This year, we had one bearing what I first thought were peaches but it turned out they weren’t. This tree’s branches were so loaded with plums that it looked like it had been taking fertility treatments.
All the books said that in order to get good plums, the fruit should be about eight inches apart and so I pulled off probably 5000 little plums but I still left way more than I should have. Now I just have to make sure that the branches don’t break from the weight.
After that, we have to prepare for a fight to the death with the Japanese Beetles who are going to want to eat these babies.
But should our plum tree and its plums survive all this, the Plums are on me.
