On June 30 I stripped the Satsuma plum tree. This was what I picked on this day....all of these. I need more friends
When designing my orchard I wanted to add a Satsuma plum tree. They are so sweet with beautiful dark purple meat, I really only needed one tree but the Satsuma is not self pollinating and like almost all plum varieties needs a Santa Rosa plum for the bees to work with. The Santa Rosa plum is a gorgeous dark purple on the outside with yellow meat on the inside and usually not as sweet. Usually.
Santa Rosa plums
Harvesting time lags about 2 weeks starting with the Satsuma. So for six weeks solid I had ripe plums.
I made some stone fruit jam from The Yummy Life blog. It's a recipe that uses 3 ingredients: stone fruit, sugar and lemon juice - no pectin so pretty easy.
Stone fruit jam
Satsuma on left, Santa Roses on right
The fruit took all day with a turn and right before bed I would remove the dried fruit and get it ready for the overnight fruit= tomatoes. The room smelled absolutely divine all day long whenever I would wander past or in the office. Almost without exception this was my routine every day of July.
I also froze several pounds but I am excited that I have such a reserve for the winter and plenty to share with my friends and family. I use a Food Saver for vacuum storage.
OK moving on to my intermediate crop: tomatoes
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