Compared to other fruit trees, growing a plum tree in your yard brings big rewards with relatively little effort. But if there's one task that you cannot skip if you want a plum harvest worth bragging ...

Gardening season is on its way and you may have questions as you prepare for spring. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type in your question and include the county where you live. A ...

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 ...

Italian prune plums, also known as quetsch or Empress plums, are one of my favorite tastes of late summer and early fall. Their season is brief, so I snap them up when I see them. Relative to many ...

This week, I was invited to a friend’s place to break the fast for Yom Kippur. I was tasked with making a dessert, and after a lot of research on what is traditional for the holiday, I found that, ...

There are so many touchstones that announce fall's arrival. Think school buses, shorter days, cooler nights and mums in bloom. For me, an early harbinger is the arrival of Italian prune plums. In late ...

Back when I was a young boy, and my family had our produce store in North Jersey, we had a customer that my mother and father called Oma. She was a German lady and one of our best customers when it ...

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 ...