Dry summer.
Hot days, relative to monsoon weather, has made the yield of wild fruit less than usual as @kevins and I both realised.
So this year my fruit collection was in three different places.
Near the vets was good for about 1.5kg and one of Sally, Bonnie and my walks has a few trees, of which only three had any accessible, usable fruit, it gave about 2.5kg as well, so I had 4kg by Saturday afternoon, stashed in the fridge.
Perfect dog walking paths.
Finding the fruiting trees becomes a game too.
Sunday I went looking about 7 miles from home on the isle of grain down the road my electrician lodger goes to,work, I recalled there was fruit when he came here last year……
Booooom as @pauly says.
Jackpot.
Of course I had to share with this girl, I thought she was a boy……..
Friendly.
https://youtu.be/qZoM5jUZAsE
About 6 varieties of plums all told in my collection that made up 12kg raw with stones.
Back home I cleaned them all, and weighed up the lot.
8kg from the trees in the lane, of course minus what the horses had.
So a total of 12kg in fruit.
I went to the village and bought 10kg of sugar as I use less than the traditional 1 to 1 mix of fruit, sugar and a cup of water per kilogram.
Split the lot into 2 and 4 kilo and cooked them in two pots, with the stones in.
MISTAKE.
But I got the stones out when halfway through.
Will do the second 6kg tonight after work.
And will remove all the stones before cooking, another spectacularly shiite job, but has to be done.
By 8.00pm I had bottled and cleaned up the kitchen.
RESULT.
Part two tonight then.