Wild fruit abounds out here in the country. Have never seen wild plum trees quite this loaded with fruit. If you can get at the fruit at just the right time, it is pretty palatable, but some pieces leave a chalky aftertaste, much like that of a wild grape. I did not sample many this year since our own Toka plum, one of the first trees planted when we arrived in 2007, bore a nice crop of “out-of-this-world” (according to me and several visitors) plums. On a side note, Toka is the only survivor of 10 odd fruit trees planted that first year. The others were peaches, nectarines and sweet cherries, which we have discovered with much exasperation do not like it here. Apples and plums are a much safer bet.

Pictured here is a cluster of unripe and one ripening Toka.

If I didn’t have so many other fruits and veggies to process I would be out in the ditch picking these elderberries.

Tags: plums, prunus americana, Toka, wild plums
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