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Plum harvest this year?

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Willo1984 · 22/08/2021 20:25

Anyone with plum trees - how's your harvest been this year? Mine has been terrible this year and I'm wondering if it's the trees, or the cold spring and cloudy summer?

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AntonMeyersNo1Fan · 22/08/2021 20:30

I harvested mine today. It was planted 3 years ago. It’s year I got about a dozen plums but that was good as it looked more like a stick than a tree. Last year not a single plum. This year, loads!!

dementedma · 22/08/2021 20:32

Not one. For the first time ever!

Thistledew · 22/08/2021 20:38

Best harvest for years.
We've got mature trees that were seriously smothered with ivy. We cut it all out last winter and it seems to have had a very positive effect on the trees.
We are in East Anglia, if that makes a difference.

Rotten mulberry harvest this year though.

MythicalBiologicalFennel · 22/08/2021 20:39

Worst harvest in years. I'm in North Wales

WlderRosie · 22/08/2021 20:41

Good Victoria Plums for me, established tree, in South East. No cherries at all this year and only two Mirabelle Plums.

HarrietSchulenberg · 22/08/2021 20:42

Mine's doing OK. Harvested first colanderful today and the rest look like being ready later this week. Have taken about 20 today, there's about twice that still on the tree and the insects have had about 15 so far. It's a dwarf variety and espaliered over the back fence.

Last year wasn't great as I pruned it too hard so it was concentrating on growth rather than fruit. This year is normal, and on time too.

VinoEsmeralda · 22/08/2021 20:43

Mine are still green!

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Willo1984 · 22/08/2021 21:00

A bit of a mixed bag then!

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Beebumble2 · 22/08/2021 22:29

None for us this year. Last year was fantastic, but no blossom this year.

StillWeRise · 22/08/2021 23:15

we had a great harvest last year (inherited a tree on the allotment) its very poor this year= our greengage (in the garden) is the same, I think we had wind at the wrong time

MereDintofPandiculation · 23/08/2021 08:35

@Thistledew

Best harvest for years. We've got mature trees that were seriously smothered with ivy. We cut it all out last winter and it seems to have had a very positive effect on the trees. We are in East Anglia, if that makes a difference.

Rotten mulberry harvest this year though.

Really good mulberry harvest here.

It’s not about whether you had a cold winter nationally, it’s about the intersection between weather and your specific garden conditions

ChoosandChipsandSealingWax · 23/08/2021 08:37

Great plums, apples looking good, quince looks poor. Terrible figs. Tomatoes all got blight overnight. Sussex.

DrNo007 · 23/08/2021 08:41

No plums as the blossoms all got frozen off in late frost. Tomatoes all got blight and died. Rats ate all our strawberries. Nice crop of apples though and rhubarb and blackcurrants did great. Sussex.

bookbook · 23/08/2021 08:41

No plums here - had a great early spring , loads set , then we had a really hard frost and lost the lot .
But it is going to be a bumper pear crop this year

Turniptracker · 23/08/2021 08:44

South East and we've had a fantastic harvest this year. On par with last year but fruits are ripening at different places which is much easier to manage when eating! The autumn fruits were awful though. My poor pear tree has managed to produce three sad fruits and the apple tree looks very bare

Bryonyshcmyony · 23/08/2021 08:46

Very nice plums but not as many of them. Pruned tree last year though. All good as we had far too many before!

Knitwit99 · 23/08/2021 08:48

Loads and loads of plums, quite a lot of pears, hardly any apples. So a mixed bag right here in our back garden. Gazillions of redcurrants but only a handful of blackcurrants.
We're south-east Scotland

Babdoc · 23/08/2021 08:50

Scotland. Plum tree overloaded and groaning, but nowhere near ripe yet!

My tree tends to alternate good and bad years regardless of weather. It was minus 18C here in Feb, and the blossom was a little late this year.
I give a good potash feed every spring to encourage fruiting.

Wallywobbles · 23/08/2021 08:55

The frost got all the flowers. So no fruit.

usedtobeboss3 · 23/08/2021 08:56

One plum, 4 damsons and hardly any apples. Maybe a couple of quinces too - it's hard to see at the moment. Apple tree had very little blossom this year, which was odd, and I guess weather related. I'm in Suffolk.

SalaciousCrumble · 23/08/2021 09:05

SW here - almost no plums, greengages better than plums but worse than last year (but amazingly tasty), pears look good, one apple tree has almost NO apples for the first time in years but the others all look great. What a strange year!

EssexLioness · 23/08/2021 09:14

South East, poor harvest. Only a few plums compared with our usual huge harvest

wonkylegs · 23/08/2021 09:19

Ours is good but late only just ripening now whereas last year we already had armfuls
We find we usually have a year on a year off but we had a good year last year too.
I suspect the late frost and dry period that followed slowed the season down for everything.

Ylfa · 23/08/2021 09:20

Suffolk. Too many plums!

wonkylegs · 23/08/2021 09:20

We're in the NE