When is the season to pick green plums in Changsha?

Eating a sweet and sour green plum brings the experience of first love. Early summer is a good time to pick green plums. Friends from Changsha, bring your children to let them grow up happily while playing and experience the fun of picking by yourself. When and where are green plums picked in Changsha?

The places where you can pick green plums in Changsha are mainly concentrated in Changsha County. As of May 26, 2021, nearly 20,000 green plum trees have matured and are on the market in Beishan Town, Changsha County. Due to the long rainy season, the output this year is expected to be only about 3 tons. Green plums are sweet and sour and are rich in amino acids needed by the human body. Freshly picked plums are sour when eaten directly, and a bite will only make you lose your eyebrows. To become delicious, these green plums undergo their own amazing journey.

Perilla plums

After picking green plums, it is best to process them immediately. Soak in clear lime water or salt water until the color turns yellow, rinse with clean water, pat open one by one, add salt to dehydrate, add perilla, ginger, white sugar, mix with dried green plums and rub. Handmade perilla, which does not contain any artificial coloring, has also become a hot commodity this season.

Green plum wine

In addition to perilla plums, you can also make plum wine. First wash with clean water, dry in the shade, add white wine or grain wine, and add an appropriate amount of rock sugar according to personal taste. The wine and plum aromas blend together in the bottle. If you want to have a mellow taste, you naturally need to wait, preferably one year. At the end of spring, the ancients drank wine with green plums to wake up their stomachs with their new acidity and welcome the early summer.

Green plum jam

Choose ripe and yellow green plums, wash them with spring water, and boil them with licorice and rock sugar. You will be drowsy on summer mornings. Opening the jam and pairing it with a slice of bread will start your appetite for a wonderful day.

A summary of the places to pick green plums in Changsha (with address, price and phone number)

Tip: Be sure to pick by hand. Green plums falling to the ground will affect the taste and cannot be beaten with bamboo poles.

Variety: There are five varieties of plum trees here: apple plum, rouge plum, Beishan plum, Wu Mei plum and Mei Tao plum.

Picking period: It can last about 1 month. It starts in early May and will last until mid-June.

Address: Meizhuang Family Farm, Beishan Town

Price: 20 yuan per kilogram of unprocessed green plums, 50 yuan for a bottle of perilla plum, 200 yuan for a bottle of green plum wine, and 200 yuan for a bottle of jam 10 yuan.

Contact number: 13647316895 Person in charge: Xiong Hongliang

Route: Zhongqing Road, Xingsha Contact Line, turn right on Qingzhuhu Road, enter Beishan Avenue, and go straight to Beishan Forest Park Changjiazhai Within 1.5 kilometers of the scenic spot.