Edward Bunyard
OUR ORGANIC PLUMS
In late August, the trees groan, and sometimes buckle, under the weight of another massive pink and purple crop of Victoria and Marjorie Seedling plums. Again these are delicious fresh, but how about a Plum Cobbler and thick, thick cream?
Plums again lend themselves well to organic cultivation as the number of pests and diseases are relatively limited and all are controllable under organic production standards.
Our 2023 crop was also picked by Felix Project volunteers and distributed straight from the tree to London schools.
Plums are first recorded in the 479BC writings of Confucius
In 1927, a magnificent steam train - the pride of the Great Western Railway - was named ‘The Pershore Plum' to celebrate the centenary of this fine variety
Our forebears were reliant on natural cures for most ailments and as Peter Treueris writes in his herbal in 1526: Plomes; They have vertue to smothe and polyshe y bowelles.
The variety Victoria, now the most well-known British plum, sprung from a chance seedling from a garden in Alderton, Sussex.
Five Generations –
Growing in Harmony with Nature for More Than a Century
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