Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Last week we discussed the six-month hiatus between noticing troubles with stone fruit and the time of activating prevention.   Peach leaf curl is a rather ugly fungal disease that commences 6 months from now – in spring the leaf curl starts to become obvious on the newly emerged leaves of your peach trees.   Taphrina deformans is the name of the disease that targets peaches and nectarines. The infection begins in autumn when the leaves are falling to the ground – a double dose of copper (a few times, 3 or 4 weeks apart) will stop the fungi from settling on the dormant fruit trees.   Follow up questions I got: Does the copper spray debilitate the peach and nectarine’s buds?    No worries! The buds are going to a dormant phase   Another great example of important timing is winning battles from the Lemon Tree Borer.   These borers are mainly found from Nelson-Blenheim north – they don’t like it too cold.   This rather cool, sizeable, long-horn beetle is a native of our