Tag Archives: wild plums
Mother Trees on the Prairie
There’s a growing body of scientific evidence that trees share information, warning their neighbors about danger and nurturing nearby small trees. If you Google “trees communicating” you can get some notion of the traction that this idea is getting. Trees … Continue reading
Posted in Life Science
Tagged competition, cooperation, cottonwood trees, plum thickets, root systems, wild plums
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Picking Wild Plums
Several weeks ago, I waded across the Creek and picked twelve pounds of wild plums. That’s not so easy to do this week because the channel is back to running full after the latest “rain bomb”. Most of the major … Continue reading
Posted in Farm History, Life Science
Tagged fall season, jam, jelly, moon of ripe plums, plum thickets, pluming, wild plums
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A Promise of Good Harvest
A blustering wind has been blowing wet and cold for the past two days. In other years, this really messes up the fall harvest of wild plums because the delicate new blossoms get zapped. Not this year. The plum blossoms … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Life Science
Tagged plum jelly, plum thickets, spring, wild plums
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