Last year we had a reasonable crop of plums from the solitary plum tree. This year, after a decent winter prune, some well-placed fertiliser and TLC,the crop is 1000% better, giving far more plums than we could use to make jam. However, we did our best.
One of the innovations was to enclose the tree with a hair-net to keep the foraging ever-hungry birds away. It worked very well, and very few fruits were lost to these little critters.
(Above): The plum tree, covered like Granny’s head with a protective hair net bird-net.
(Above): A shot through the net, showing the branches laden with plum-coloured …well, plums.
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