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Old 09-04-2010, 10:05 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Pruning plum trees.


"mark" wrote in message
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I want to prune a couple of plum trees which have got a bit tangled.
I have read that the best time to do this is June because of the risk of
silver leaf infection.

However I'm keen to do it now. Is there something I could paint on the
cuts/wounds to compensate for non-ideal time of year?

mark

I moved house in September and have a plum tree in my new garden. There
were a lot of climbers plus a willow which all needed cutting back so I
asked a tree management expert about all of these. He told me that
October time was the ideal time to prune the plum tree and I had him do
this accordingly.


Jo