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Re: dwarf peach under attack

On Fri 29 May, muller@cs.bc.edu wrote:
> Hi, I planted two dwarf peaches this spring
> in Boston, MA. They were doing fine until about
> 2 weeks ago when the leaves started getting these
> horrible canker-like warts on them. I think its
> a fungus of some kind. The leaves are shrivelling
> up and dying.
> 
> Anybody have any experience with this kind of
> thing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Muller

Your peach tree has peach leaf curl which is a fungal condition. You
coult spray with a copper fungicide Jan/Feb (N. hemisphere) repeating 14
days later and again in the autumn. A good measure of prevention is to
erect a protective cover of polythene over the tree for the winter to
keep the rain off it. For now remove all infected leaves as soon as they
appear and destroy them.
-- 
Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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