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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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Nick
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 11 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, quince are self-fertile - and another vote for quince from me, too.
Czar - my tree is reliable and fruits prolifically every year. Up here it's more a culinary plum than an eater (makes great jam and chutney, and nice stewed), but where you are, it might even have time to ripen properly ! Trouble-free since I've been here, and it has been hacked about a bit a couple of times.
Cherry plums - I use mine for jam, wine, liqueurs, jelly and jam. Fruit on mine is yellow - makes up for the years my yellow greengage doesn't produce much fruit.
Hardy; can be laid like a hedge.
Medlars are 'bombproof' like quince. Jelly and wine, or to eat bletted. |
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Bernie66
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yummersetter
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 11 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Along with Gil's cherry plums - mirabelles, Mirabelle de Nancy or similar. You can eat raw, dry, freeze, make jam, chutney or pies. We never waste these, we pick and use every one.
Cultivated elder.
Concorde is a useful, easy pear.
Amelanchier? Borderline edible, certainly liked by blackbirds, pretty in flower.
And I'd have to have a gage. |
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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