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 ...

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Dear Helen: We have four Italian prune plum trees in our garden, already mature when we bought the house 22 years ago. The plums are delicious although racoons knock most of them down before they can ...

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 ...

Both fresh and dried plums contain fiber and antioxidants. They may help reduce constipation and benefit your overall health. Plums contain many vitamins and minerals, in addition to fiber and ...

Q. This summer my young prune plum tree produced its first crop – just a few plums, but they were sweet and delicious. My only concern was pale brown patches on the skin surfaces of some of the plums.