I was at a local pool this week getting my exercise working through the bone spur on my hip and I talked to one of my readers. He wanted to know about peach leaf curl, and I said that I would do some ...

If you have peach or nectarine trees, winter is the time to spray them to prevent peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that attacks peaches and nectarines. It appears in spring, ...

Peach leaf curl is a fungal condition that can be managed with fungicide. UC Master Gardeners Peach leaf curl and shot hole disease of peaches are common problems for the backyard gardener. Both are ...

I have been using Lily-Miller dormant spray for peach leaf curl on my nectarines; three times during the winter and the spring. It really hasn’t been too effective. I am going to put on the last ...

Q. Our peach tree had a bad case of peach leaf curl this year. The leaves have almost all fallen now, so we would like to get ahead of the problem. What is the treatment? A. Peach leaf curl is a ...

If you have a peach tree, this may not be your year for peach ice cream. After an especially wet spring, many trees are afflicted with peach leaf curl, a fungal disease. “It’s mostly a leaf disease, ...

Q: After losing a prized peach tree to curl disease, I recently ordered a ‘Frost’ peach because I heard it is highly resistant to the disease. Are there other peach trees that are also resistant? A: ...

Peach leaf curl has been a common disease of peach trees this spring in Vermont. The disease often occurs in wet, cool springs following mild winters. The fungus (Taphrina deformans) causes the ...

Curls can be cute on a person’s hair, on poodles, sheep, and, of course, on a pig’s tail. But they’re not so cute on trees or plants. 99.9% of us have seen leaf curl on citrus trees. Disturbing as ...

I was at a pool this week getting my exercise and looking forward to Friday the 13th. This is my three-month anniversary visit with my surgeon about my hip replacement surgery. Hopefully my ...

If you have peach or nectarine trees, winter is the time to spray them to prevent peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that attacks peaches and nectarines. It appears in spring, ...

If the new leaves of your peach or nectarine tree become reddish, puckered and severely distorted, chances are that peach leaf curl is the culprit. This disease is caused by the fungus Taphrina ...