Posted on 02/25/2023 7:21:10 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
I have 2 European Plums Victoria and Prune’d Ente 707 from Raintree Nursery. (Vicky and Prudence!) Both self fertile but are also good cross pollinators. August and September. If flowers and pollination, I have two large nylon bags to put over the trees to keep the Japanese Beetles off.
I read somewhere that if the temperature drops below -17F next spring’s buds will die and you will have no fruit. This is year 3 for my plum trees. So far it has not dropped below -17F, I have 2 and 3 year wood and some good spurs, did my pruning and I am hoping to get some fruit this year.
(There is the extremely hardy Mount Royal plum which originated and grows in Quebec which would be an exception to that -17F cutoff. )
Vertical Farms....Silicon valley techies attempting to apply their approach to farming and it does not work. (Marxism collectivized the Ukraine and put factory workers in charge of growing wheat. They managed to turn the largest exporter of Wheat in the world into an importer of wheat so the people could survive. )
My Plum was a Mount Royal - very dependable, but she got Fire Blight (or whatever it is that stone fruit get) and couldn’t be saved. :(
We had two plum trees in the yard when I was a kid. They were the BEST climbing trees ever. Sis and I would make ourselves sick gorging on the fruit in late summer. Mom was none too happy with us. ;)
from U.W. River falls:
Observations at Carandale Farm Plums
Green Gage also sounds like a good variety. (Grandmother had a tree, but it was not pruned so was about 25 feet tall and the fruit was out of reach!)
Sometimes you can get inexpensive sand plums from a State forestry service for wildlife hedge plantings.
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6630435/Re_Whitetail_and_Sand_Plums (Like sumac, good cover for deer; they eat the dropped fruit.)
And Apricots (not as successful!)
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