mmm... I think you might have nailed it. One of the neighbours has a tree about 10m away and, if my memory serves me correctly, when I was cleaning up the leaves at the end of autumn I came across some soft skinned fruit that were decidedly "plum-like" and the stones were also similar to the plums I am familiar with, even if the fruit weren't.
Sorry, I messed up that last reply, it should have said
mmm... I think you might have nailed it DovefromAbove. One of the neighbours has a tree about 10m away and, if my memory serves me correctly, when I was cleaning up the leaves at the end of autumn I came across some soft skinned fruit that were decidedly "plum-like" and the stones were also similar to the plums I am familiar with, even if the fruit weren't.
Thanks for alll your help everyone. After some time in the garden today, and losing all the skin on the palm of my hand, I dug several of these out from my lawn.....
Sorry about your hand, shawn! I am recovering from cutting my hand with the secateurs - lucky I had gloves on but it was still nasty.
I have this suckering problem too. In my garden they come from a wild damson (Prunus) in the field boundary. I dig back to the root and pull off the sucker with a pair of pliers. I gather this is less likely to encourage more suckers than cutting it off. Time will tell about this.
Thanks for the reply M-K-, hope your hand heals soon. I dug the suckers up and chopped the root up as much as I could. Nour sure whether your method or mine is the right one but time will tell. Annoying work to have to do when the time could be better spent tending the rest of the garden.
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Sorry, I messed up that last reply, it should have said
mmm... I think you might have nailed it DovefromAbove. One of the neighbours has a tree about 10m away and, if my memory serves me correctly, when I was cleaning up the leaves at the end of autumn I came across some soft skinned fruit that were decidedly "plum-like" and the stones were also similar to the plums I am familiar with, even if the fruit weren't.
Thanks for alll your help everyone. After some time in the garden today, and losing all the skin on the palm of my hand, I dug several of these out from my lawn.....
Sorry about your hand, shawn! I am recovering from cutting my hand with the secateurs - lucky I had gloves on but it was still nasty.
I have this suckering problem too. In my garden they come from a wild damson (Prunus) in the field boundary. I dig back to the root and pull off the sucker with a pair of pliers. I gather this is less likely to encourage more suckers than cutting it off. Time will tell about this.
Thanks for the reply M-K-, hope your hand heals soon. I dug the suckers up and chopped the root up as much as I could. Nour sure whether your method or mine is the right one but time will tell. Annoying work to have to do when the time could be better spent tending the rest of the garden.