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Peach leaf curl nectarine fungal disease distorted leaves — What is Curly Leaf and what causes it? Leaf Curl in peaches and nectarines can look quite overwhelming, but the tree usually recovers well and produces an abundance of fruit. Leaf Curl (also known as Peach Leaf Curl) is a fungal disease caused by the pathogen Taphrina deformans. It affects […]

Curly Leaf in Peaches and Nectarines

This entry was posted in Garden Pests How to Grow on September 26, 2022 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

Fruit Tree Pruning Kyneton — Why do we Prune Fruit Trees? The reasons we often choose to prune fruit trees are: To keep the trees smaller to enable netting To keep the trees smaller to pick the fruit Because we think they need pruning to improve yield fruit (they don’t!) Because we are told that […]

Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees

This entry was posted in How to Grow on September 20, 2022 by Leaf, Root & Fruit