C ompared to other fruit trees, growing a plum tree in your yard brings big rewards with relatively little effort. ... you should remove any buds and suckers that start developing on the lower trunk.

Q: My plum tree has leaf curl. Is there anything I can do to get rid of it now that they have leafed out and have little baby plums growing? I sprayed all my trees with a dormant spray twice over ...

Q: I have a flowering plum tree in my backyard next to an Italian plum tree. The last couple years the bugs are destroying my fruit-bearing tree before I get any plums.