[Sca-cooks] Fruit picking was Re: Almond Milk revisited

[Huette von Ahrens]

I believe the most popular home grown plums in California are the 
red Santa Rosas and the purple with yellow flesh Satsumas.

My apricots are as ever abundent, but running a little late this year.
Last year, we were getting ripe apricots by now.  From the looks of the
green fruit and their size they probably will be ripe in a month or so.

I would be happy to trade apricots for plums or cherries.  I do have
one of those extended fruit pickers, although it doesn't get as high
as the top of our 40' tree...

As for where to pick cherries, there is only one place in Beaumont
that I know of, but there are at least a dozen places in Leona Valley 
[Palmdale area], three in Little Rock and one in Llano that I know of. 

But I still would like to go.

Huette



--- Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:

> > Muiriath writes: 
> > Hey Selene, Huette, Aeduin and anyone else in from Caid on this list, we
> > should plan a cherry picking trip  sometime :)
> >   
> Actually, I can offer a plum picking trip to my parents¹ house in Sherman
> Oaks, probably in a month or so.  Dark red and golden plums, neither much
> bigger than a cherry each.  This year¹s yield looks promising, the little
> green plums are plentiful. These trees were allowed to get Awfully Tall and
> it will take a lot of ladders and ingenuity to get at the upper branches but
> Dad¹s willing to let my friends try.
> 
> I want a big bucket of the red ones to do more plum wine, the last batch
> [which I hoard fervently] came out better than the best plum wine you ever
> had at a Japanese restaurant.  My mother calls them ³Italian plums² but I
> wonder if they are not actually Japanese, particularly the golden ones.
> 
> The main cherry picking country in Caid is Beaumont, yesno?  That¹s
> Dreibergen, so we need to ask our friends in that direction what the season
> looks like so far.
> 
> Selene
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