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Newburgh Plums

What a horrible summer, not only has Scotland been cold and wet the whole of Britain has been wet, flooded with crops lost as well as homes ruined. Today, Sept 5th it is glorious, sunny and very warm and this has helped ripen the plum tree in my garden - with the plums now due to go on sale at the Newburgh Plum fayre. As most of the Newburgh Plums are grown in organic conditions then they can be considered organic, although they may not meet the strict organic marketing requirements of the Soil Association.

Larger image of the Plum Tree

This year has seen the heaviest crop of plums I have seen in over 17 years, so the wet weather, probably the wettest summer recorded in Britain has been beneficial to my plum tree. I can't say it is due to love and care as I tend to ignore the tree and have only pruned it to allow us to walk below the branches to the small vegetable garden we have.

As with all crops that are not covered with insecticides or fungacides some of the plums have blemishes, they taste great, infact they taste better as I know they are covered with chemicals.

Newburgh is fast becoming a very desirable location and it has an Art Gallery (shop) and two antique shops as well as Twist Fibre - a great craft and wool shop where you can sign up to classes and workshops to learn how to knit, sew, weave and dye - well just about everything you can do with wool. People come from all over Scotland (and abroad) to these classes, some are run in the evening, others at weekends.