Companion Planting & Garden Value: Plum

Prunus domestica

Spacing: needs about 16 square feet per plant. Mature height: 15-18 ft.

Pollination

Self-fertile: one plant, on its own, sets fruit. European plum (the type most home orchards grow, as opposed to Japanese plum, a different species usually needing a cross-pollinator) is generally self-fertile, though a second variety nearby still tends to improve fruit size and yield. (source)

Plant these nearby

No well-established companions.

Keep these apart

Nothing it needs to be kept away from.

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Companion planting for Plum: which plants to grow next to it, which to keep apart, and the reason behind each pairing.

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