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?

One of the early signs of this disease is fewer leaves on your peach tree, and the ones that develop will be small and yellow ...

The infected leaves usually fall off and are replaced by a new crop that shows fewer or no symptoms of the disease. Peach and nectarine trees infected with untreated peach leaf curl disease ...

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.

🚫 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.

Q: I have a peach tree that keeps getting peach ... is essential for successful treatment of both disease and insect problems. Trees should be sprayed until all branches are thoroughly wet ...

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 ...

Once peach leaf curl symptoms appear (when trees leaf out in the spring) it’s too late for anything to be done to stop the disease. Spraying after symptoms show up is ineffective and removing ...

Q. My peach trees struggled this year. The fruit set was very sparse, and the fruit that did make was inedible due to disease and bug holes. Can you provide some tips to hopefully prevent a ...

Instead, the factor affecting “95%” of the peach tree mortality at Bader Farms is armillaria root rot, a fungal disease common throughout the Southeast, said Dr. Phillip Brannen, a plant ...