How To Enjoy A Plum

An old song says "The best things in life are free.." and we tend to agree. One of the life's best simple pleasures is eating a ripe plum, fresh off the tree. This Instructable will teach you how to how to do just that! Try it out, it's not as complicated as it looks!

Step 1 Locate Plums

If you know of plum tree in your neighborhood, you may skip this step. Otherwise, locate plum tress in your neighborhood by going to Public Trees Map at the Neighborhood Fruit website. Put your zipcode and distance (ex. 94110 and 1) and search. Take note of the tree addresses and get ready for your adventure!

Comments

[RollerT]

This is a great instructable. It's informative in ways difficult for the layperson to figure out on their own and not at all a self serving excuse to get some face time :) !

[neighborhoodfruit]

Thanks for your appreciation. Really after taking these incredibly unattractive photos, it seemed like the only thing to do with them. LOL!

[sboy365]

greta ible

[dpr]

um who doesnt know hot to eat a plum. let me answer that you appartment owners that live in cities.

[grundisimo]

don't eat the pit it hurts ......alot

[zero838]

theres a seed inside the pit that tastes good most of the time lol

[albylovesscience]

wo you must of figured that out the hard way

[grundisimo]

i did

[phildodd]

What a great thought for summer ! And by the way, have you ever broken into the pit or stone, and eaten the inside ? If not, you have a pleasant suprise in store ! A taste like nutmeg ! The nicest plums must surely include cherry plums. Sweet and red like cherries, but a plum. They're slow growers so have to be grown on a faster-growing rootstock such as Victoria plum. Great for making a sweet wine too. Be very careful if you plant a plum tree, though, as if you prune them in anything other than the coldest depths of winter, they think they're under attack, and sent out suckers all over the place. But plums - NICE ! A mouth-watering Instructible !

[getthephone]

Hey you GD kids! get the hell out of my plum tree!

[svfox69]

How did you know I like plums.
Your very lucky to have plum trees, I have to go to the store.

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[verence]

Nice!

Wished, we had public plum trees here! Fruits for free! Yummy! ;-)

Did you ever think about checking the plums for worms?
I don't just bite into the plum, I prefer to "twist" it open to check it.

Put one half it between thumb, index finger and middle finger of your left hand (or thumb and index finger only) and grab the upper half with the respective fingers of the right hand) - the stem has to be lying flat - i.e. not pointing up or down. Now gently twist the fruit open. That should give you a good view on the inner parts of the plum - and any worm possibly living inside it - without destroying the fruit.

Your plum gets mashed? Grab another one and try again. Sorry, but plum-time is over here where I live, so I can't do an I'ble to show you.

Your plum was fine? Remove the stone (is it pit in English?), eat the sweet stuff and repeat as needed.

It's not that I'm a vegetarian, I just like my food to be dead before I eat it ;-) .

And don't forget:
Keep on picking!

[canida]

This looks like a great resource! Thanks for sharing.