ok, plums don't grow on bushes, but they are not pruned properly they
look more like bushes than trees!

anyway, I bought myself a house and it has these plum "plants" than
have been ignored for maybe over ten years. this fall we had a great
crop of plums, so i think i'll try to promote them and see if I can get
a really good crop of them.

problem is, most pruing guides dont work too well, as these have gotten
so wild that pruning them normally wouldnt do much. also, suckers(i
think?) have grown up over the ten years and are competing, making the
trees reach longer and longer. trunks 2 inches in diameter will have
branches over 12 feet long.

anyway, these plums are planted close enough together that the rule of
"make the root ball the same size as the branches" means i'd be
transplanting 4-5 trees at once, when what i really want to do is take
the 4-5 trees and separate them.

advice?