Pruning fruit trees during fall is generally a bad idea. Instead, trim them in late winter or early spring, when the trees are dormant. However, you can still remove dry, damaged, or dead branches in ...

I make Pflaumenkuchen in the early fall when autumn plums, also known as Italian prune plums or blue plums, are in season.

Pruning certain shrubs in the fall encourages new growth that winter temperatures will damage and, for many shrubs, reduces ...

October is a busy month in the pruning calendar, with many plants needing to be cut back to ensure they return next year ...

October sees the start of the dormant season, which is the best time to prune lots of deciduous garden trees and plants.

They are not many of us who could say, at the end of our lives, that we once caused a rebellion against the New York Times, ...

Pete Wells remembers Marian Burros, a tenacious food reporter whose plum torte became one of The Times’s most famous recipes.

Plums and damsons are often used interchangeably–but is that accurate? Photo: Getty Images Late summer is considered plum season: The fruits taste great fresh, as well as in cakes or jams. Plums and ...

Plum sauce in a jar, garlic and blue ripe plums on a table. When my college boyfriend and I parted ways, it wasn’t the end of our relationship that I cried over – it was his grandmother’s plum sauce, ...

If you ask us, the very best summertime fruit is stone fruit. There’s nothing better than biting into a freshly picked peach, a perfectly ripe plum or a handful of juicy cherries, right? Their season ...