With dark blue, astringent skins, and dry, sour flesh, the ancient plums called damsons aren’t good for eating fresh. When submitted to a process akin to alchemy, however, their tartness and spiciness ...

Damsons are lovely fruit trees that produce many dark blue fruits in late summer and also offer white blossom in spring. These historic fruit trees have been cultivated and harvested for centuries.

Can you help me with two damson plum trees? I purchased these trees bare-root and planted them probably five years ago. They have flourished and now stand 8 to 10 feet tall. I have had them ...

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If it's early August, it must be time for Damson plums. Gersine Bullock-Prado — a Vermont-based pastry chef and author of Bake It Like You Mean It — has a special place in her heart for them. "They're ...

Early fall is the opportunity to continue chasing flavors of the finest produce still available, namely our delicious fruits: apples, peras de Octubre (D’anjou pears), honeydew melons and especially t ...

The idea of having a fruit tree in your backyard is appealing for several reasons. Not only can these trees add some character to your outdoor spaces, but you might also be able to pick fruit from ...

Cabbage soup Fay Ward of Portsmouth has lost her recipe and would like another one. Damson Plum Pudding Cake Juanita Moore of Virginia Beach wrote, “I am looking for a recipe I had for many years and ...