Country diary: Notice anything wrong with this ripe, succulent plum? | Claire Stares

Langstone, Hampshire: My garden is full of Victoria plums, but theyre not supposed to be crunchy insideThis summer has been challenging for the fruit trees in my garden, with intense heat and a lack of rain causing poor cropping, premature ripening and pre-harvest drop.While my dessert and cooking apples have produced just a handful of stunted, crab-apple-sized fruit, and my quince is bare, the Victoria plum growing next tothe greenhouse is the exception.Itsbranches are so heavily laden that sev...