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\nI’m enjoying the season’s plums that I buy daily from the vegetable stand at Sp\u00e5nga torg. I am so pleased that they exist! (Both the plums and the veggie seller.) I think the plums and some of the apples they sell must be local – the plums are so juicy and ripe that it’s hard to imagine them surviving any kind of long distance transportation.<\/p>\n
The inside of a plum looks almost like I imagine the inside of a body, with its fleshy surface threaded through with veins.<\/p>\n
I’m determined to plant a plum tree of my own this year. I started digging today in the spot I had planned for the tree, where the kids’ playhouse used to stand. Cleared away the brush and weeds, started digging down… and hit a flat rock almost immediately, less than a spade’s depth down. Shifted to one side and then to the other and realized that the rock extends in all directions. Not a boulder but bedrock, then.<\/p>\n
There are large bushes and trees growing on all sides of this spot. I dug closer and closer to the stump of an old dead damson tree, thinking that surely if this tree could grow here then there must be deeper soil here – but no. The same flat bedrock all the way. I guess the nearby trees are all lucky survivors that have managed to put down their roots in crevices in the bedrock and managed to hold on there. Or not, given that the damson tree was actually more or less dead when we moved in.<\/p>\n
I’m giving up on this spot and will have to find a plan B.<\/p>\n
You’d think that in a garden of 1000 m2<\/sup> there should be plenty of space for a little plum tree. But with all the things already growing here, and the space taken up by the house, and the ever-present bedrock, and the shade from all the large trees in the neighbours’ gardens, there really isn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m enjoying the season’s plums that I buy daily from the vegetable stand at Sp\u00e5nga torg. I am so pleased that they exist! (Both the plums and the veggie seller.) I think the plums and some of the apples they sell must be local – the plums are so juicy and ripe that it’s hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13512,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511\/revisions\/13512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}