A plate of plums sits on a wooden table - Ekaterina Smirnova/Getty Images If your parents ever warned you not to swallow the pits of stone fruits because a fruit tree would grow in your stomach, you ...

There are approximately 250 varieties of plums grown in California. They thrive in the San Joaquin Valley, are one of the easiest fruit trees to grow in the home garden, and are delicious to eat.

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 ...

Would the roots of a 25-foot plum tree go to a depth of 5 feet? A plum tree does not have a notorious root system, one that heaves up sidewalks, for instance. The vast majority of roots of any tree ...

Can you help me with two damson plum trees? I purchased these trees bare-root and planted them probably five years ago. They have flourished and now stand 8 to 10 feet tall. I have had them ...

Q: We have several fruit trees in our backyard. One of them is a plum tree. For the first time, we have lots of plums on the tree. The problem is that the plums keep falling off as soon as they get ...

Start by choosing the correct variety of plum, then remove the pit. Extract the seeds from the pit, then let them germinate before placing them in the soil. Wouldn't it be great to have free plums ...

With the early arrival of spring and the abundance of flowering trees, shrubs, and bulbs that seemed to appear all at once, I recently was challenged to identify specific blooming trees according to ...

Winter is here and yet we’re still getting plenty of gardening questions to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty ...

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