If you ask a group of friends what their favorite fruit is, chances are their responses will reflect the ones most frequently sold in grocery stores. According to the International Fresh Produce ...

As summer goes by there's a pageant of plums in the markets. Green plums, black ones, red ones: sweet, succulent fruit giving forth nectar for warm weather refreshment. Bringing up the rear are ...

Split screen of two plum tomato types - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty Growing up with a British mother, there were always jokes between the pronunciation of tomAtoes versus to tomAHtoes. In the ...

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.

Q. What is the difference between plumcots, pluots, and apriums? Which varieties are the best? Luther Burbank, the famous plant breeder, crossed an apricot (Prunus armeniaca) with a Japanese plum ...

Summer is the season of stone fruit, and with August winding down, plum season is in full swing. California produces 95 percent of American-grown plums, which means that farmers' markets will be ...

Since childhood, the plum has been my favorite fruit. I can still remember the anticipation of devouring my grandmother's plum "leather." Every summer, we would watch her make it and savor its ...

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 ...