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    Feb 21, 2023 3 minutes

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    PUNY PLUMS

    After three barren years, in 2022 my 10-year-old ‘Marjorie's Seedling’ plum tree produced a huge crop of fruit to the extent that branches needed physical support. The crop never grew to more than large grape or damson size and so I wonder was it my reluctance to thin adequately, or was it the drought - or was it something else entirely?

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