Way out West (incorporating Way up North)

Plum news

Whilst I'm on, the Oullins Golden Gage is now coming into ripeness, the fruit, which is never better than a pale yellow gold in colour, has a marvellous subtle flavour. It is definitely not a keeper, once it approaches ripeness the fruit is ready and gone in 24 hours, I may have to cook some up and freeze them, there's a fabulous frangipane and greengage recipe that I've made in the past just aching for some of them.

The wasp trap, courtesy of the Nottingham correspondent, is extremely unpleasant, a disgusting melange of drowning and decaying insects, on the other hand, it has been very effective at keeping the little buggers off the plums. I guess there's no nice way to kill a wasp, so maybe drowning in sugar syrup is as good as it gets, rather like beer and slugs.

In a couple of weeks the Victoria will be doing its thing, this might well be time for more jam.

posted by Lampy @ 8/11/2006 11:34:00 pm