The Prunus Domestica or plum is a native of Asia, the South of Europe and America. They are easily to grow.
Available rootstock are very tolerance of wet winter soils; they bloom late enough to avoid most spring frosts.
The best soil is a strong, moist, rich loam, inclining to clay, a dark, heavy mould or a moist, yellow loam.
They don’t like to dry out at the roots, especially the gages. Lighter soils need plenty of organic matter added to improve moisture retention.
A black, muddy soil, moist, but not wet, is excellent.
This plum suitable in cold soils that are not very deep. A slightly more acid soil is acceptable to plums than to most other top fruit, with a pH of 6.0 to 6.5 being ideal.
The plum flourishes well on any tolerable moist tillage and with care in culture and manure to guard against drought, it succeeds on soils tolerably dry; and some varieties are well adapted to rather dry soils.
To produce good quality prunes the fruit should have a high sugar content which is aided by hot, dry weather during ripening.
Suitable soil for Prunus Domestica
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