How to grow beach plum
Prunus maritima
When to plant beach plum
Rutgers NJAES recommends planting nursery-grown clonal or grafted beach plums rather than seedlings, transplanting in the fall. Plants typically bloom in May and begin bearing in their third year. Beach plums are self-sterile, so more than one plant is needed for cross-pollination.
Beach Plum is timed by season rather than your frost dates, so the planting calendar does not generate ZIP-specific dates for it. Check the cited sources below to fine-tune for your area.
Growing conditions
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Spacing
- 120 in apart
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- 1.5 in per week
- Soil pH
- 6.5 to 7
Common problems
- self sterile needs cross pollination
- biennial or irregular bearing
- plum curculio
- brown rot
- oriental fruit moth
- fruit splitting from excess water
Sources
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