Give yourself quite a few seasons of close observation and jot down your findings in a notebook, so that you too, can follow the rhythms of nature. Apples and pears often stick to this routine too. This is called alternate or biennial bearing, and there is nothing unnatural about it. Plums are known to produce a generous crop one year, then they take a year off of fruiting – or sometimes 2! So, when a bountiful plum harvest is yours for the picking, take advantage of it and preserve as much plum jam as you have jars and pantry space for. If you stop to think about it, many crops act this way, especially in the realm of perennial fruit trees. Just in case you are thinking of planting an orchard… That is life in the world of fruit production.
One summer you will harvest buckets and bowlfuls of the sweetest purple gems, the next year just a few sad, bitter, wrinkly little things. You will never harvest the same amount from year to year.
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