I have an great love for fresh fruit and especially fruit trees.
There is a big plum tree in the backyard that ive been watching throughout the year. As last Summer I spent many hours sitting atop a ladder picking and eating the beautiful plums straight off the tree.
Ive started this as a fruit tracking thread. To keep track and show the progress of the tree. I hope you can join in too.
There is a lemon tree but that's not as fun, and there are already lemons on it.
What kind of fruit trees do you have in your backyard?
October 7th 2010
After looking at the bare ugly limbs of the tree for months on end now. Its recently started growing its leaves.
On closer inspection. I see the start of buds growing. meaning flowers, then fruit!
There is a big plum tree in the backyard that ive been watching throughout the year. As last Summer I spent many hours sitting atop a ladder picking and eating the beautiful plums straight off the tree.
Ive started this as a fruit tracking thread. To keep track and show the progress of the tree. I hope you can join in too.
There is a lemon tree but that's not as fun, and there are already lemons on it.
What kind of fruit trees do you have in your backyard?
October 7th 2010
After looking at the bare ugly limbs of the tree for months on end now. Its recently started growing its leaves.
On closer inspection. I see the start of buds growing. meaning flowers, then fruit!
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what about pointed sticks?
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How are your plums today?
(and would you let Kruse pick them)
(and would you let Kruse pick them)
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This thread is starting to give me the pip
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Look what fell of his fruit tree this morning...
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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Is that a plum duff?
(or a plum tart?)
(or a plum tart?)
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How did they pay for Peter Plumley-Walker's funeral?
They had a whip around.
(I'm just saying what you're all thinking)
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Two peanuts were walking in the park. One of them was assaulted...peanut.
I like tautologies because I like them.
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Tried to get a picture the other day of the plums but had problems with the focus. The top plum has a lot more colour now.
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Tried to get a picture the other day of the plums but had problems with the focus. The top plum has a lot more colour now.
That's what she said.
I like tautologies because I like them.
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C'mon Stefan. Show us ya plums.
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Two new pictures!
They are looking good. I would say 3-4 weeks and I'll be beginning to pig out on these. Plum jam, sauces and the likes to be made throughout summer.
They are looking good. I would say 3-4 weeks and I'll be beginning to pig out on these. Plum jam, sauces and the likes to be made throughout summer.
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I have an great love for fresh fruit and especially fruit trees.
There is a big plum tree in the backyard that ive been watching throughout the year. As last Summer I spent many hours sitting atop a ladder picking and eating the beautiful plums straight off the tree.
Ive started this as a fruit tracking thread. To keep track and show the progress of the tree. I hope you can join in too.
There is a lemon tree but that's not as fun, and there are already lemons on it.
What kind of fruit trees do you have in your backyard?
There is a big plum tree in the backyard that ive been watching throughout the year. As last Summer I spent many hours sitting atop a ladder picking and eating the beautiful plums straight off the tree.
Ive started this as a fruit tracking thread. To keep track and show the progress of the tree. I hope you can join in too.
There is a lemon tree but that's not as fun, and there are already lemons on it.
What kind of fruit trees do you have in your backyard?
"...As last Summer I spent many hours sitting atop a ladder picking and eating the beautiful plums straight off the tree..." Health & Safety issue here. You might get bloated then fall off the ladder. Recommend you eat the fruit at ground level. Never stand higher than the top 2 rungs of a ladder.
We've got a fig & lemon tree. I don't eat figs but you have to be quick before the birds get at them just as they come ripe.
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But you probably were wearing a safety harness weren't you Stefan?
Once at the top and hooking the harness around the main trunk, any number of ripe, moist and succulent plums could be plucked from the overflowing yet yielding plum tree and savoured at leisure...
Junior822010-11-09 22:06:59
Once at the top and hooking the harness around the main trunk, any number of ripe, moist and succulent plums could be plucked from the overflowing yet yielding plum tree and savoured at leisure...
Junior822010-11-09 22:06:59
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It was more of a rock climbing rig.
I was hooked into a harness, but a chest one because if I fell forward I might have gone face first into the ladder.
I also had someone holding the ladder while I climbed and sat there.
OSH inspected it and approved it.
OSH Certificate number : CS21543D Class: A
I was hooked into a harness, but a chest one because if I fell forward I might have gone face first into the ladder.
I also had someone holding the ladder while I climbed and sat there.
OSH inspected it and approved it.
OSH Certificate number : CS21543D Class: A
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Looking good. Nothing like fresh fruit straight from the tree.
Have had the pleasure of picking wild blueberries and blackberries here.Love the blueberries.
Watch out for bears.
Have had the pleasure of picking wild blueberries and blackberries here.Love the blueberries.
Watch out for bears.
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Mr Incredible looks like someone who doesn't like to eat much fruit so you should get a good harvest!
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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Heard about a guy talking about planting fruit trees in public areas in Wellington so the public could have access to free fruit.Great idea!
Got me thinking...we could plot "free" fruit trees that are on public land on a map, kind of like "fruit tree caching" a la Geocaching
...or we could keep our secret stashes to ourselves!
I know a street with fig trees in it that are growing well.This sunny weather we are having should help things along nicely...hmmm, yum!
To start the ball rolling..this article appeared on WCC site...will be a while to wait yet for the fruit but keep it in mind. www.wellington.govt.nz/news/display-item.php?id=3300
Here's the guy I mentioned earlier...www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/4277459/Free-fruit-for-all
and this may be of interest too.Freefood Facebook page
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103551612890
and from that site there's this..its already going!
Free fruit and food map in NZ!
just zoom into Wellington for local trees.
RedGed2010-11-11 14:35:11
Got me thinking...we could plot "free" fruit trees that are on public land on a map, kind of like "fruit tree caching" a la Geocaching
...or we could keep our secret stashes to ourselves!
I know a street with fig trees in it that are growing well.This sunny weather we are having should help things along nicely...hmmm, yum!
To start the ball rolling..this article appeared on WCC site...will be a while to wait yet for the fruit but keep it in mind. www.wellington.govt.nz/news/display-item.php?id=3300
Here's the guy I mentioned earlier...www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/4277459/Free-fruit-for-all
and this may be of interest too.Freefood Facebook page
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103551612890
and from that site there's this..its already going!
Free fruit and food map in NZ!
just zoom into Wellington for local trees.
RedGed2010-11-11 14:35:11
Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!
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Thats an awesome website.
Too many fig and olive trees though.. I dislike both.
Too many fig and olive trees though.. I dislike both.
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And there seems to be a strange obsession with rosemary.
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Grabbed the first few ripe strawberries of the season from the gardenthis afternoon, brilliant.
You know we belong together...
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Show us ya plums Stefan.
Are they reddening up?
Junior822010-11-23 23:26:34
Are they reddening up?
Junior822010-11-23 23:26:34
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Had a check of my plums just then while trimming some bushes in the garden. They are much bigger now, but vary in sizes.
Getting a bit of red on the ones that have been exposed to the sun.
And in sime cases, they seem to be getting too big for the limbs they are on. so the limbs definatley looks smaller than the plums.
They are still firm though. Hopefully they will soften up with age. And the ones that were previously a bit high, will drop as time goes on.
Getting a bit of red on the ones that have been exposed to the sun.
And in sime cases, they seem to be getting too big for the limbs they are on. so the limbs definatley looks smaller than the plums.
They are still firm though. Hopefully they will soften up with age. And the ones that were previously a bit high, will drop as time goes on.
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Stefan, How many times a day are you checking your plums?
Last season I went a whole day without checking my plums ..........the next morning one of them had gone really red & fallen off. 
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Here is a picture of me holding my plums.
Stefan2010-12-13 14:43:07
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Have your plums dropped yet?
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You decide Junior82...
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That is a distasteful act.
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Im making plum sauce at the moment. I'll offer up a bottle of the stuff to whoever can.... Photoshop a nice picture of me and JB together. Winner will get a large bottle of the stuff.
Made it last year, Great on icecream and things like that..
Made it last year, Great on icecream and things like that..
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