{"id":10587,"date":"2024-07-16T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10587"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:59:39","slug":"the-start-of-plum-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10587","title":{"rendered":"The start of plum picking!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plum picking starts tomorrow with opals (sweet eater) and prolifics (slightly sharper eater) being ready. There is a reasonable harvest of each but not enough for PYO, so only ready picked plums will be available at present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be open tomorrow &#8211; Wednesday 17th July from 1 &#8211; 6pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday 18th July noon &#8211; 5pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday 19th July noon &#8211; 5pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plum picking starts tomorrow with opals (sweet eater) and prolifics (slightly sharper eater) being ready. There is a reasonable harvest of each but not enough for PYO, so only ready picked plums will be available at present. We will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Fgux-2KL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8053,"url":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8053","url_meta":{"origin":10587,"position":0},"title":"Plum update 11\/8\/23","author":"Margaret","date":"August 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Victorias are now ready! There will be ready picked and PYO from tomorrow. Our opening hours for the next few days are as follows Saturday Noon - 6pm. There is a coffee morning in the village (down the road opposite us) from 10.30 - noon if you want refreshments before\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/vics-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/vics-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/vics-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/vics-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/vics-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/vics-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8408,"url":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8408","url_meta":{"origin":10587,"position":1},"title":"Fruit update 30\/8\/23","author":"Margaret","date":"August 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Victoria plums are very nearly at their end. However, Marjories have cropped well (sweet plum) and there are also Croppers - a sharper plum at the moment which is excellent for jam etc. Both types are available for PYO as well as Ready Picked. Damsons are plentiful. The apples currently\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1823,"url":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1823","url_meta":{"origin":10587,"position":2},"title":"Plum 2022 Update","author":"Margaret","date":"July 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"We will be open for PYO and Ready Picked tomorrow (Friday 29th July) and also Saturday and Sunday (30th and 31st) from 10am - 5pm. Monday opening times are 11am - 5pm.There are still plenty of Opal and Czar plums available.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10603,"url":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10603","url_meta":{"origin":10587,"position":3},"title":"Fruit update 31\/7\/24","author":"Margaret","date":"July 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we will be picking Excalibur plums. These are an early type of Victoria plum. We also have Purple and Yellow Pershores. We are open today (Wednesday) noon - 6pm Tomorrow (Thursday) 9 - 11am and noon - 4.30pm We will not be opening after that until the Victoria plums\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1212,"url":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1212","url_meta":{"origin":10587,"position":4},"title":"Fruit update 10\/8\/18","author":"Margaret","date":"August 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We are now well in to the plum harvest with a good range of varieties available including, Opal, Czar, Purple and Yellow Pershores, Heron, Swan and Excalibur (a Vic cross). We also now have Discovery apples. Our Plum Weekend is next weekend so we hope to have our largest variety\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1212#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10590,"url":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10590","url_meta":{"origin":10587,"position":5},"title":"Fruit update 19\/7\/24","author":"Margaret","date":"July 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Prolifics have now finished but we have plenty of sweet eaters - Opals and Czars. They are \u00a31.60 lb ready picked. Opening times - Saturday 20th July 11am - 5pm Sunday 21st July 11am - 5pm Monday 22nd July noon - 5pm","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10588,"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions\/10588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walsgrove.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}