I would suggest simmering them gently for a few minutes to get rid of any nasties. It does change the flavour, but if you allow it to cool to blood heat, then add the activated yeast as Dpack suggests, you should have a reasonable chance of success.
I would suggest simmering them gently for a few minutes to get rid of any nasties. It does change the flavour, but if you allow it to cool to blood heat, then add the activated yeast as Dpack suggests, you should have a reasonable chance of success.
Mullins golden gage
Prince of Wales
Avalon
Jefferson
In plums
Discovery apples
Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9886 Location: Devon, uk
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 14 10:59 am Post subject:
tis blowing a hooley out there now and I fear for my fruit laden trees. As it goes most are not fruit laden, but the victoria plums are, so we have picked to take the weight off the limbs, and have to hope they will ripen, and cruel mother though I am, I made my son get up out of his lie in and harvest the scrumptious apples from his dwarf tree as it was very vulnerably weighed down. Winds are sposed to get worse yet.
apples are raining down and we are gathering windfalls
Went out to get some plums for pudding and that flipping hurricane has all but striped the 2 plum trees, 2 damson trees and 2 apple trees, I'm not happy
Plums:
Jefferson (a plum shaped gage, one of the best)
Manns No 1 (like Victoria but a touch earlier)
Reeves (last pickings)
Mallard (last pickings)
Guthries Late Green (a traditional greengage)
Apples:
Bakers Delicious, huge apples, bruise a bit but tasty for eating and juice
Pears:
Laxtons Superb, nice but turned pappy very quickly, we may have harvested a couple of days too late
Also noticed the persimmons have fruited, way off being ripe yet but...
We have our first ever quinces set. Fingers crossed we will have our own membrillo this year for Xmas. I currently have a lot of ripening figs when I can beat the birds to them.
Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9886 Location: Devon, uk
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 14 3:18 pm Post subject:
ended up with quite a lot of Victoria plums, am spending a lot of time stoning and freezing them atm, Marjory seedling plums coming in now.
Lost about 60 banana trees, most of the papaya trees, all the mangoes, all the veg, tomatoes and chiilies, stripped the leaves from the lime trees and the cassava. in a typhoon at the begining of August. Worst loss was the chocolate trees.
Planted out new seedlings this week. Tidying up the banana plantation.
Hoping to get some chinese letuce in another twenty days but not much of a crop after a lot of hard work.
Thanks M.R.
Main thing no one hurt, not much structural damage to our plot. Garden will recover, a hazard of where we live.
Local people suffered more. Most houses bamboo frame and coconut thatch, no glass in windows etc. Now food shortage the prices go up causing more misery for the locals. For example: Our coconuts are normally 3 pence sterling per kilo to the dealer, now 8 pence sterling; our rice to the dealer normally 3 pounds 50 pence per 50 kilos now 6 pounds.
Most of the fallen banana trees had well developed fruit which we managed to save and issue to local families. Small help.
Still upset over my chocolate trees though.
Regards, Graham
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