Monday was a warm, cloudy, clammy and dry day. It was the sort of day where a thunderstorm might be expected at any time. There was just a hint of dampness in the air mid afternoon but it didn't amount to anything so our dry spell goes on.
On the plot our plums or gages (Oullins Gage), there seems to be doubt over the description, are ripe and ready for picking.
However, another one of our plum trees, Marjorie’s Seedling, has suffered severely from the weight of plums it is carrying and the main leader of the tree has broken. The tree is 15 years old so the branch that broke was fairly substantial.
The break is above head height and difficult to reach. We’re now going to have to decide on the best course of action to take. In the short term I might be able to prop the collapsed branches to lift the unripe fruit off the grass to allow the fruit to ripen. Longer term I think the branch will need to be cut cleaning just below the break.
It’s certainly gone a long way to reducing the height of our plum tree’ it’s just a bit drastic. At least I wont need a ladder to harvest these plums if they do ripen.
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