Today

[Brooklyn1]

I was very busy mowing today, and afterwards checked my new fruit trees, I have a lot of delicious plums (Mt. Royal), they're small but very tasty... next year they should be larger.

be a few hundred, I may cook a bunch with other fruit and spices; compote. I was suprised that they're freestone: two sycamore seedlings I planted ten years ago are now almost trees: couldn't mow everything, we had a monsoon of rain here in the Catskills so I need to wait a few days to finish but what I did mow doesn't look too shabby:

[David Hare-Scott]

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[Brooklyn1]

Thank you. And I didn't spray it with anything. After four years in the ground that's its first crop. I planted a green gage plum at the same time but no fruit yet. The Mt. Royal is supposed to be a good pollinator for the green gage, will need to wait till next year to see what happens. Last two springs here have experienced a late hard frost so blossoms and pollinating insects didn't get to meet... I think the hummingbirds I feed pollinated that tree. Going to have an early fall, night temps are down in the 50s and I see a tinge of yellow on the trees... it's only 64º here at nearly 10 AM, should be about 75º.

[beecrofter]

Stone fruits don't have a June drop like apples, if you want larger fruit you have to thin them at least a hands breadth apart, maybe more.