plums originally from Asia, sea from the region between the Caucasus and Caspian. The Romans brought them to Italy and they spread all over Europe. Today there are over 2,000 varieties of plums - in different shapes and colors. Currently hanging fruit in many gardens and picked from the trees.
plum plum family
The family is large - there are round plums, eggs, plums, prunes and plums. Starting at the end of June the first plums are harvested. This goes on until late October. A basic distinction between plums and prunes. The plums are more suitable for fresh consumption. They are round and juicy solve, but often from their stone. The rights have a more elongated plum fruit with a pointed end. The flesh is firm and cartilaginous spicy sweet. The dish tastes slightly bitter. Damsons are often seen as baking a cake. In addition to the classic dark blue varieties but there are also yellow and red colored. The green gages and the yellow Mirabelle plums also belong to the family.
variety selection
Who wants to pick the sweet fruit in the garden, has the purchase of a plum tree will be spoiled for choice. Especially recommended is because of their robustness to be the "Hauszwetsche. In the early level there is the variety "Hermann", which already shows the end of June fruit. 'Wangenheim' "is a very old variety that is currently experiencing a renaissance. This is a very hardy species, which in a somewhat less favorable positions in the Bergisch Land copes still good. Who has a warm area may, with the fruits of a late "President" even in October Plum cake making.
location
plums need a sunny place to quickly dry the fruit after rain again. Airy it should be, so do not prepare as quickly rot fungi problems. Plants can be a plum tree in autumn. Crops can be even more next year but not much. You have to, depending on variety, have to wait a couple of years before the first significant yield depends on the tree. When the plum tree, but after four or five years to the wear occurs, the harvest will be abundant. Not much care does a plum tree. In the hobby range is a regular, reserved section in the winter, auszulichten to the crown, and to new wood to get.
plum plum
annoying for gardeners often are small worms that are spreading in the fruit. The worms are the larvae of the plum moth, who visited twice a year, the plum trees. You can try to get the plum a little under control, in which one attractant traps hanging in the tree, the scavenging of the male moths and prevent fertilization of the females. Fishing season is in spring after flowering.
Author
Gereon Reymann
advice
Peter Strem, horticultural center Cologne Auweiler
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