Tag Archives: Plums

Spiced Plum Jam Recipe

Spiced plum jam recipe

Spiced plum jam recipe

This spiced plum jam recipe is one that we have been perfecting for the last few years. We settled on this mix of spices when we used to make a spiced jam from foraged damsons and crab apples. When we moved to our current house a couple of years ago, there were so many plum trees in the garden that we started making it all plum. This is how we have made our jam the last two years and both batches were absolute triumphs. Ideally you should include a good few plums that aren’t yet quite ripe, as they are…

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2015 – The Year In Review

Just some of our homegrown produce from this year.

Just some of what we grew and produced this year. Top left - bottom right: winter squashes, parsnip, kohlrabi, a batch of jam, mushrooms, spiralised courgette ('courgetti'), plums, tomatoes and courgettes, squashes in our pumpkin patch.

This year was our first in our current home with our rather large garden. We moved into this house in May, and although we were late out with many of our crops, we’ve had a very successful growing season. In this post we’ll look back over the year and share where we feel we were successful, and where we were not. Soft Fruits By far our largest and most used soft fruit crop was our plums. We can’t really take much credit for this crop, as all of the trees were already here when we moved in, and we have…

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Making Plum Wine

Plum wine in a demijohn

Our plum wine in a demijohn

I’ve mentioned before just how many plum trees there are in our garden. We used many of their plums in jams and chutneys, but I’m sad to say we struggled to keep up. Part of the problem was that most of the trees are self-seeded, and so close together that they have grown quite leggy and all of the branches are out of reach. I’d often come out to the garden of an evening and find a mass of plums had fallen, burst and been like that in the summer sun all day. In these conditions mother nature had started…

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A Fun Day Harvesting in the Garden

A harvest from the garden: plums, blackberries and elderberries

All from the borders of the vegetable patch - great fun for adults and younger helpers alike!

I took a day’s holiday from work today as we had things to do in the morning. We had finished all of the important things we had to do by late morning, so we took the opportunity to get the kids out into the garden to harvest some soft fruits. We have several plum trees in and around our garden that are laden with ripe plums. In truth there are too many, they are mostly self-seeded and are too close together. Lately when I’ve been working in the garden they’ll be a small thudding sound every five minutes or so,…

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