Plums & courgettes

I love plums and gages (not shop ones) especially greengages, definitely my favorite fruit. I have 2 planted in the orchard but its going to be a few more years yet before I can enjoy them. In the meantime I managed to rescue a dying Victoria plum tree, it was buried in the middle of one of the macrocarpa's and was all lob-sided but I have pruned it and now the big trees are gone its starting to grow on the other side too. It's not going to last forever as it has silver leaf a fungal disease that is slowly killing it. Until it finally dies off I'm going to enjoy the plums.Stella and Harry also figured out that these plums were very tasty and decided to pick and eat all the lower plums themselves. So I picked the rest and left them a couple of days in the tunnel to ripen a bit further...Some of the outdoor courgettes I've left to get very big and then pick and let the skin harden up in the tunnel. This is a good way to preserve them for the winter months...These big ones should keep until well into the new year if stored somewhere cool and dark...