Whether you're growing Victoria, Avalon or Blue Tit plums, pruning should be done yearly to keep a healthy plum tree in your garden. Timing is everything when it comes to pruning your garden plum crop ...

There's no one month in which all fruit trees should be pruned since each variety has different needs, and there are different reasons for pruning, whether that's trimming off leafy growth to ...

October is not the best time to prune lots of trees, but there is one job you can quickly do this month that will benefit many popular backyard trees. That is to remove suckers before they get too ...

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Q Could this be bacterial galls I'm seeing on older Santa Rosa plum trees? If so, should I remove the older trees with galls? A The black, gnarly growths are actually caused by a disease known as ...

Dear Helen: I’m not getting much fruit from my Stanley and Italian Prune plum trees. I watered and fertilized the trees carefully in the spring and reaped a reward of four plums. Dear Helen: I’m not ...

If you notice a small, purplish-green, football-shaped plum in the market sometime during the next couple of weeks, you’ve probably spotted a prune plum. Once common, this plum was a favorite of ...

Black knot is a common disease of stone fruits. The name describes the growths the fungus produces. Dear Helen: As I was picking prune plums recently I noticed a few twigs encircled by dark, corky ...

Urban gardens tend to be small, making it tricky to find the room for an orchard. However, there's one fruit tree variety ...