Fall is typically known as harvest season, but you can plant plenty of fruit trees in your backyard during this season.

If you want your best ever fall harvest, get to know the various types of plum trees to grow in your garden. You can't beat them for a delicious late summer sweet treat, and once they get going, ...

While fruit trees generally take a lot of time before they produce, you can easily start the process by turning a single plum pit into a seedling.

For the past two years, my plum tree has produced plenty of fruit, but they all drop off while still very small. What am I doing wrong? Do we have a plum tree? We thought this was a peach tree. It was ...

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 ...

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 ...

UC Davis researchers in the Department of Plant Sciences have laid the foundation for understanding the genes that control ...

Damsons are small, oval, indigo-hued plums with tart, greenish-yellow flesh popular in British, Irish, and early American ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Q. My flowering plum has made fruit this year. I have been here five years and this tree never made fruit before. I thought it was for flowering only and would not make fruit. Why did it make fruit ...

It was about this time last year that a sudden rush of telephone calls urged me to go to "Plum Day" - an event promoting local fruit at an orchard in the Cambridgeshire Fens. I had heard of Apple Day, ...