The wife and I are looking to make some sand plum jelly this year. It seems no one in north eastern Kansas has a clue as to what sand plums are. Any leads on ripe plumbs? I will provide a couple jars of jelly for any leads on plum thickets!
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The wife and I are looking to make some sand plum jelly this year. It seems no one in north eastern Kansas has a clue as to what sand plums are. Any leads on ripe plumbs? I will provide a couple jars of jelly for any leads on plum thickets!
There are a bunch of sand plum thickets around Milford. I don't know if any are ripe yet though I'll do some looking and let you know.
Slinger.... My x-wife used to make really good sand plum preserves.. the biggest thickets we found were in Stafford County. Most of the county is covered by
real sandy soil and the plum thickets were everywhere.. we used to walk the creek bottoms around Hudson. Don't know where you are located, but it isn't that
far from Wichita. As I remember it was right at this time of year we went plum huntin'. Good luck.
My folks got sand plums in there back yard. I have American Plum on my place. Actually tried one tonight. THey are a deep dark red. Here are some pics from a month ago at this time.
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That is a really nice looking thicket. Many of the ones I have found are looking really bad and do not have any sand plumbs on them at all.
What is the difference between the american plum and a sand plum?
Sand Hill Plum
Kansas Forest Service
American Plum
Kansas Forest Service
Out here right now and this is what it looks like
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looks like zummy is given you a lot of info just not tellin how deep and where the lake is??Quote:
Originally Posted by crappieslinger
Took a picture of these sand plums last night. Very few on the bush in my folks back yard. Notice they fruit have a waxy look. I tasted some, and they are pretty similar to the American p
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We finally found a good bunch of them east of Ottawa and that is how they looked as well. Some thickets are loaded and others have just a few plums on them. Not sure why some of them didnt produce plums.
I think I am going to plant more plums on my place. Just can't decide whether to plant sand plums or American plum. Going to use them to screen us from the road. A bonus is the quail like them.
Picked these tonight. How do you make Jelly or jam from them?
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We use the plum recipe in the box of sure-gel. I dont have one handy to see the exact instructions but is equal parts of sugar to juice and then the sure-gel if I remember correctly. The hardest part is cooking the plums and then extracting the juice. We use an old food mill to get the juice and then run it through a jelly bag to remove as much pulp as we can.
That sand plum jelly is some good stuff. Sand plum wine ain't half bad either:biggrin
Plums are dark red right now. Bushes are loaded down.
I heard they were in western Kansas too. What area are you seeing them?
Coffey county
I have many sand plum bushes in our backyard and for some reason this year I didn't get many good ones at all. Not enough to make any jelly this year. :( Last year was a great crop and was looking foward to this year too, but not going to happen for me this year. :(
I have a bunch of loaded up American plum bushes. I did find a sand plum bush on my place today. I'll get a fruit of each type in my hand for comparison tomorrow.
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Not many on the sand plum bush, but I keep finding American plum bushes all over the place.
Its that time of year and the plums are ripe. Going to try making some jelly this year Attachment 312374
This is the second batch. We did several batchesAttachment 313901
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