Today

 I was very busy mowing today, and afterwards checked my new
fruit trees, I have a lot of delicious plums (Mt. Royal), they're
small but very tasty... next year they should be larger.
http://i54.tinypic.com/w15w8j.jpg
Must be a few hundred, I may cook a bunch with other fruit and spices;
compote.  I was suprised that they're freestone:
http://i53.tinypic.com/aujzgw.jpg
The two sycamore seedlings I planted ten years ago are now almost
trees:
http://i53.tinypic.com/2dvsqc1.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/w4nro.jpg
I couldn't mow everything, we had a monsoon of rain here in the
Catskills so I need to wait a few days to finish but what I did mow
doesn't look too shabby:
http://i54.tinypic.com/35i3bwx.jpg

 Brooklyn1 wrote:

Nice healthy-looking tree.

D

 On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:53:09 +1000, "David Hare-Scott"


Thank you.  And I didn't spray it with anything.  After four years in
the ground that's its first crop.  I planted a green gage plum at the
same time but no fruit yet.  The Mt. Royal is supposed to be a good
pollinator for the green gage, will need to wait till next year to see
what happens.  Last two springs here have experienced a late hard
frost so blossoms and pollinating insects didn't get to meet... I
think the hummingbirds I feed pollinated that tree.  Going to have an
early fall, night temps are down in the 50s and I see a tinge of
yellow on the trees... it's only 64º here at nearly 10 AM, should be
about 75º.

 Stone fruits don't have a June drop like apples, if you want larger
fruit you have to thin them at least a hands breadth apart, maybe more.