jjannie's 2020 gardening

[Jig-fisher]

I have 4 different varieties, 2 that need each other for pollination.  What would you like to do with your plums if you decide to plant one?  Fresh eating, canning, drying or jelly?  I dry and eat them fresh.  My family isn't a big jam or jelly user, although I like it. A good single self pollinating tree is an Italian plum.  It is a purple with yellow flesh European variety, blooms later in the spring, and is a good all around plum.  It ripens late, (I am going to pick mine tomorrow) and is freestone which makes for easy eating and working with it.  Very sweet and flavorful.  Although I like all my plum varieties for differing reasons, mostly because I have plums ripening from June through October, I have not had anyone say they did not like this plum.

We do not eat refined sugar and are strictly low carb people, so we would only eat them fresh and we would freeze dry what we don't eat, to enjoy later during the Winter. i like the idea of a self pollinating tree and have tried the variety of plum you are talking about but we like a more tart plum with purple flesh.I agree with you I have not tried a plum that I don't like. Have you ever tried to grow a plum tree from the seed of one of your plums. I have been very successful doing that with my peach tree, just wasn't sure if it would work with plums. I kept one of the seeds from my neighbors plum tree this year, that has purple flesh and is tart, just not very big, I'm just not sure if I can grow a tree from it.

I have not tried to grow any from seed.  I bet it would work. All mine were either container grown or bare root trees.  I have 2 trees that had multiple grafts of different varieties.  I have cut out 2 of the grafts just because I did not like them and a 3rd graft that I only keep to help with pollination.  So in reality I have 6 varieties of plums and 4 trees.  Nearly all my trees are dwarf and semi-dwarf.  They still produce a lot of fruit, but are easy to prune and manage their size.  What kind is your neighbors tree?