Each time you spray your trees, you should soak the entire tree and the ground around the base of the tree with the dormant spray. It is also important to clean up any leaves and old fruit as ...

My peach tree is 10 to 15 years old and usually bears what starts out as beautiful peaches. But as soon as they start getting some size, they drop from the tree. The ants seem to get to them first.

Most peaches are prone to a disease called brown rot that can completely destroy a crop. Pruning and thinning fruits can help, ... I use Bonide Fruit Tree Spray.

"Stink bugs, in particular the brown marmorated stink bug, can be devastating to tree fruit,” says Blaauw. These pests feed ...

Question: What is dormant spray? I was told to use it on my fruit trees, but I don’t know what it is. ... Fixed copper: Spray on apples, pears, cherries, peaches and plums to control canker.

In the spring, spray the tree again with chlorothalonil between petal drop (the stage where the petals drop off the blossoms) and “shuck split.” The recommended controls for peaches are also ...

Yes, you are removing a lot of potential peaches, but that's good for the tree. "A mature peach tree will put on 5,000 flowers. You need 500 to make a good crop," Stein says.

Some cultivars of apples and peaches are productive only under the careful use of a regular spray program using a fruit tree spray, a combination fungicide and insecticide product.

Another way to stop squirrels from climbing fruit trees is by draping wildlife-safe netting over the entire tree canopy. When netting a tree, make sure the net’s tightly secured around the trunk so ...

Q: What can I do to prevent the sap from coming out of my peach fruit? It happens as they reach about the size of a walnut. I do not spray the tree. A: You want peaches to be 5 to 6 inches apart ...

Fruit trees are not for the lazy. They require a strict regimen of spraying for disease and pests, said Howard Siegrist, the Licking County extension educator with the Ohio State University Extension.