Two important fungicides that home gardeners have used for years to control peach leaf curl have been withdrawn from the market. Home garden uses of lime sulfur spray (calcium polysulfide) were ...
If the new leaves of your peach or nectarine tree become reddish, puckered and severely distorted, chances are that peach leaf curl is the culprit. This disease is caused by the fungus Taphrina ...
Q: Is this gall on my peaches at home? If so, what’s the remedy? If not? What is it and how do it treat? • Blaine from Columbiana A: I received some photos of curled up peach leaves on a tree. They ...
Gardeners who have grown stone fruit such as peaches, nectarines or apricots may have noticed in some years the leaves become strangely crinkly and bright pink. This is due to a fungal disease known ...
Q: Last spring when my peach tree leafed out, the leaves were all funny shaped. Can you tell me what the problem is and how to prevent it from happening again? A: Based upon the symptoms described, ...
Q: After losing a prized peach tree to curl disease, I recently ordered a ‘Frost’ peach because I heard it is highly resistant to the disease. Are there other peach trees that are also resistant? A: ...
Q: For the past couple of years I have sprayed my peach and pear trees with a dormant spray but I have still been plagued with peach leaf curl or fire blight. What can I do control these diseases? A: ...
Two odd diseases that may occur on home-grown peaches and plums are peach leaf curl and plum pockets. Sarah Browning is an Extension educator with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Lancaster ...
Q: I have a peach tree that keeps getting peach leaf curl every spring. I have sprayed the tree in past winters but my tree still gets badly infested. What am I doing wrong? A: Severely affected ...
If you have peach or nectarine trees, winter is the time to spray them to prevent peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that attacks peaches and nectarines. It appears in spring, ...
If you have peach or nectarine trees, winter is the time to spray them to prevent peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that attacks peaches and nectarines. It appears in spring, ...
If you have peach or nectarine trees, winter is the time to spray them to prevent peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that attacks peaches and nectarines. It appears in spring, ...