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I picked my plums, there is still about half a gallon of half ripe ones in the trees but I had a bumper crop!View attachment 116626
Holy moly, that's a lot of plums. I have two questions:
1) Plums grow in South Dakota?
and
2) What do you do with excess plums? I'm assuming pickled plums don't taste very good. 😉
 


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Grandma's house is OVER the river and THROUGH the woods.

THROUGH the river and OVER the woods might be the way to the witches house from Hansel and Gretel? Or maybe just where to find a campfire pizza?
We definitely went through the river.
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We definitely went through the river.
I wasn't questioning that at all. It sounds like you're heading towards the gingerbread house and/or campfire pizza, instead of towards grandma's house. Unless they happen to be one and the same.
 

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Local street festival after work today, a few interesting vehicles. love the red ford truck, whats funny is the guy he is running against for judge was also in the parade, with a orange pontiac gto convertible. Took a picture of the gator just because the dog in the back with sunglasses was comical

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Local street festival after work today, a few interesting vehicles. love the red ford truck, whats funny is the guy he is running against for judge was also in the parade, with a orange pontiac gto convertible. Took a picture of the gator just because the dog in the back with sunglasses was comical

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Holy moly, that's a lot of plums. I have two questions:
1) Plums grow in South Dakota?
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2) What do you do with excess plums? I'm assuming pickled plums don't taste very good. 😉
Yep, we have wild plums everywhere. I've got a row of them behind my shop that I've been tending. They seem to produce a really good crop about every 5 years.

No clue about pickled plums, that sounds terrible, we use them for plum jam! It is amazing. Lots of wild fruits to eat here if you know where & when to look and how to prepare them.

In addition to excellent jam, the wood is really good for smoking meat. Not sure what to compare it to... it's a much stronger flavor than apple or cherry but not bitter. I have to trim the trees every year so I have a TON of it. I made about $400 selling off the excess plum & apple wood this year to others for their smokers.
 

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I made about $400 selling off the excess plum & apple wood this year to others for their smokers.
:unsure:

Think there's a market there for pine? No fruit trees, but I've got a bunch of pine. Its too small for timber, and not enough of it for pulpwood.
 

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Yep, we have wild plums everywhere. I've got a row of them behind my shop that I've been tending. They seem to produce a really good crop about every 5 years.

No clue about pickled plums, that sounds terrible, we use them for plum jam! It is amazing. Lots of wild fruits to eat here if you know where & when to look and how to prepare them.

In addition to excellent jam, the wood is really good for smoking meat. Not sure what to compare it to... it's a much stronger flavor than apple or cherry but not bitter. I have to trim the trees every year so I have a TON of it. I made about $400 selling off the excess plum & apple wood this year to others for their smokers.
I was joking of course, but I'm not sure I knew plums grew so far north. In fact I don't think I ever heard of someone with a wild plum patch in their yard but obviously they must grow somewhere!
Plum jam sounds divine.
 

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Think there's a market there for pine? No fruit trees, but I've got a bunch of pine. Its too small for timber, and not enough of it for pulpwood.
Firewood is about all. Pine is not good smoking wood. Pretty much all of the fruit woods are, plus oak, hickory, mesq

I was joking of course, but I'm not sure I knew plums grew so far north. In fact I don't think I ever heard of someone with a wild plum patch in their yard but obviously they must grow somewhere!
Plum jam sounds divine.
I’d send you a jar but I don’t know if it would make it through customs. I give away almost all of the jelly and syrup we make, great Christmas presents.

I was just talking to a guy from Calgary last week and he said peaches grow up there, that was a shock to me.
 

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Firewood is about all. Pine is not good smoking wood. Pretty much all of the fruit woods are, plus oak, hickory, mesq



I’d send you a jar but I don’t know if it would make it through customs. I give away almost all of the jelly and syrup we make, great Christmas presents.

I was just talking to a guy from Calgary last week and he said peaches grow up there, that was a shock to me.
Peaches in BC, definitely. I'm not aware that Alberta has peaches. Alberta has sour cherries that do very well. Apples. Lots of berries.
 

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Firewood is about all. Pine is not good smoking wood. Pretty much all of the fruit woods are, plus oak, hickory, mesq
I was being facetious, pine isn't good for anything including burning and building. Too smokey for the former. Unfortunately, it's about all anyone can afford for the latter.
 

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Finally got myself some of that covid 💪


Only took what.. 3.5 years?


Not bad for an unvax'd habitual nail-biter who doesn't wash their hands enough.


@Rick W can have my paint.

@rusty ol ranger can have the 96... lest he live the rest of his years without sitting behind a REAL motor.


The rest of you can compete in a sexy popsicle eating contest for the rest of my stuff...


I know it'll be awkward.. it's not exactly a super manly thing to compete in.. but I DO have some good stuff so 🤷‍♀️ git r dun fellas its been nice BS'ing with all of you over the past few years.
 

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Finally got myself some of that covid 💪


Only took what.. 3.5 years?


Not bad for an unvax'd habitual nail-biter who doesn't wash their hands enough.


@Rick W can have my paint.

@rusty ol ranger can have the 96... lest he live the rest of his years without sitting behind a REAL motor.


The rest of you can compete in a sexy popsicle eating contest for the rest of my stuff...


I know it'll be awkward.. it's not exactly a super manly thing to compete in.. but I DO have some good stuff so 🤷‍♀️ git r dun fellas its been nice BS'ing with all of you over the past few years.
I want your license plate...
 

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@rusty ol ranger can have the 96... lest he live the rest of his years without sitting behind a REAL motor.
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Just so i can claim victory
 

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