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Damsons?

MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949
in Fruit & veg
I have discovered what I believe to be a damson tree at the bottom of my garden. It has started to produce fruit. I am assuming damson as opposed to plum because the fruits are small. My questions are, when is the best time to pick/eat? how do i know when they are ripe? Do they taste like plums? Should i be excited? t i a

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Damsons are quite sour  unless cooked, and the stone does not separate easily. Damsons will go a deep purple colour when they are ready.  As a raw fruit, nothing beats a just picked from the tree ripe Victoria plum.  If you have  too many plums to eat raw, some damsons added makes a better pie filling in my opinion.
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Meomye If you're into making jam, you have the ingredient for the queen of all of them.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    When they’re deep purple and starting to soften. Make fabulous jam, can’t wait until ours are ready to pick. I picked ours on the 11th September last year.
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Or make damson gin, same method as sloe gin.
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