Country diary: Notice anything wrong with this ripe, succulent plum? | Claire Stares
Langstone, Hampshire: My garden is full of Victoria plums, but they’re not supposed to be crunchy insideThis summer has been challenging for the fruit trees in my garden, with intense heat and a lack of rain causing poor cropping, premature ripening and pre-harvest drop.While my dessert and cooking apples have produced just a handful of stunted, crab-apple-sized fruit, and my quince is bare, the Victoria plum growing next to the greenhouse is the exception. Its branches are so heavily laden that several have…
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