Re: Peach leaf curl

On Sun 21 Feb, muller@cs.bc.edu wrote:
> Hi all. Last year I planted two dwarf peach trees in Massachusetts. They
> soon got what I later learned was peach leaf curl.  I got some advice on
> this forum that I need to treat them with copper sulfite (?) 3 times over
> the winter (once on Halloween, once on Christmas? and once on Valentine's
> day).  When I found it at one of the local nurserys, the proprieter told
> me I was nuts and that such a treatment couldn't possibly do anything.
> 
> So I didn't do it.  Of course I now think he probably didn't know what he
> was talking about.
> 
> Any advice from here on? Valentine's day wasn't too long ago.
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> Bob Muller
> 
The best method is to arrange some sort of cover to keep the rain off
the branches during the winter. As you are too late for this past winter
the best thing you can do now is to remove infected leaves as they show
this summer. I'm not against sprayin as such but with this regime it
won't be necessary.


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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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