Plums!

It's high summer here and our poor plum tree is groaning under the weight of the fruit. The birds are loving it and much of what is on the ground is already half eaten by them.

I sent the girls out to pick up all the rotting fruit that we hadn't got to in time. They filled up 2 buckets before deciding it wasn't worth the $2 apiece. Child labour isn't as cheap as it used to be. I think they got about half cleared away. I may have to bribe them some more tomorrow.

Meanwhile I have been offloading gifting plums to everyone. As well as plums in my fruit bowl I have made plum jam and plum cordial. Apparently you can use the leftover pulp from the cordial processing to make fruit leather but I decided against it, at least for this year.

The freezer is full of beans, sweetcorn, and broccoli ready for the cooler months. Tomatoes are now cheap so I will be making and bottling Annabel Langbein's harvest tomato sauce over the next week. We love it as a base for pizzas.