Bah!
It has been a challenging year so far ... I now have more cucumber plants than I can possibly need but they are only at the four leaf stage ... it will need a lot of luck to see a few cucumbers this year ... some of them are mini-munch which the grandchildren eat like sweets so I'm hoping they grow quickly.
I've had the same problem with peas this year. I start mine in short lengths of rain water guttering. First lot I planted was in compost from last year, results were good. The ones planted in compost I purchased this year have been diabolical.
Oh that brings back some memories ...in Rijeka in 1967 ... our Croatian was not that good and we saw these plums for sale at the roadside ... offered the seller some Dinars (pre-Euro in1967) and some sign language he took a few dinars and gave us three huge paper bags of them. I was 17 ..the plums were something we rarely saw in South Yorkshire and if we did get them they were usually stewed to death by my mum - these, well ripened in the sun, were sweet and so delicious. All three of us failed to think about the effect eating that many plums in the day would have on our digestion ! More so with the primitive plumbing at the camp site we were staying at ...
They often fruit better biannually and this year has not been good for fruit. Loads of flowers but poor pollination and the recent wind has blown loads off our trees. We have four plums on our tree this year...
We have something similar, a youngberry, but you only realise how nice it is once cooked . A bit pippy though but great in an apple pie
Don’t do anything hasty. My damson tree had nothing last year, but is covered in fruit this year.
I don’t think plums are self-fertile and pruning at the wrong time and mess it up too as will frosts etc at the critical time. As was said, don’t do anything hasty, in fact give it love and feed/mulch etc etc.
