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 ...

Q My plum tree never fruited this year, even though I believe it was a bumper year for plums. What went wrong? A More than likely, pollination didn't occur and plums can be tricky because of the time ...

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We have a purple plum tree that has given us very tasty plums for a number of years. This year, however, its branches are burdened down with hundreds of plums that won't ripen. The plums are various ...

Q: I planted two plum trees a few years ago, and last year they made lots of plums. But they fell off early and never ripened off the tree. I do spray the tree, so I don’t know what might have caused ...

As spring fast approaches, I find myself more obsessed with the trees than usual. I think it is because they are blooming so early that I can’t help but spot them from afar. One tree that is blooming ...