Jamming till the jam is through (as Bob Marley sung!)

Yesterday I noticed a lot of this fruit under the cherry tree a short distance from my home

and after asking on Facebook and Ship of Fools I found out that they are Mirabelle Plums. It would seem that when the developers of this estate planted the cherry trees about 40 years ago, they chose cherry trees that were grafted onto Mirabelle root stock. A few years ago the cherry tree was hacked to the ground, and the parent plant has fought back - much better than the orginal ornamental (non-fruiting) cherry.

So this evening I've made 10 jars of Mirabelle Plum jam, and am in the middle of removing the stones from the same amount of plums that went into that jam. I'll freeze it in batches that I can jam with so it doesn't go off. And there will be plenty more windfalls tomorrow too!

Added to that, yesterday when I was at the allotment a neighbour gave me 2 giant courgettes, so now there are 3 pans of courgette, ginger and sugar "marinating" to be ready for me to do some jamming tomorrow before going off to tackle the weeds that are growing as fast as the courgettes.

I can see another jam sale on the horizon!