🚫 Leaving the center too dense – A crowded canopy blocks sunlight and promotes disease. 🚫 Not sanitizing tools – Dirty ...

Early-fruiting peach varieties give the best harvests often avoiding insects and diseases that can devastate this taste treat. Often the trees need sprays that you seemed to be able to skip this year.

Depending on your area and climate, peach trees can grow easily without risk of frost, pests, or disease. But in areas with ...

Pruning is an essential step in ensuring that your tree produces as much quality fruit as possible and can even help prevent diseases. Fortunately, pruning a peach tree is relatively ...

Now the branches look diseased – the bark is coming off and the tree just looks sad. What can I do? A: Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that affects peaches, nectarines, almonds and apricots.

We definitely have peach tree borers in our nectarine tree ... dig out a borer can cause damage and leave access into the tree for diseases like Cytospora canker, so it’s important to prevent ...

When the peaches start ripening, Gasic looks for signs that the fruit has disease tolerance. If the trees look good, they move to a separate orchard where the Peach Team trains and prunes them for ...

Hurricanes bring flooding, which is especially bad for peaches — peach trees don’t like to be too wet and can prematurely drop fruit if under water. They’re also susceptible to diseases like ...

Hurricanes bring flooding, which is especially bad for peaches—peach trees don’t like to be too wet and can prematurely drop fruit if under water. They’re also susceptible to diseases like ...