Leaf Curl

[shaz]

Does anyone know what I can use on fruit tree for leaf curl and that is animal friendly ?

Thanks


Shaz

[veggiechicken]

Does this help? Peach leaf curl / Royal Horticultural Society

[shaz]

It looks very intresting thank you

[Feral007]

B*gger I've got this

[Feral007]

Need some advice again on this please.

I pulled off all the pink curled leaves off my plants and expected them to stay stick like. But they have come up with some nice, normal, green leaves. Having just reread that link above I see that it's something that can happen and that these leaves will not be infected.

It just seems really weird to me that next spring the same thing will happen again.

And bar spraying, and maybe finding a way to keep a raincoat on the trees for winter/spring (which would be easier said than done in this windy place) then can I just pull the leaves off at first 'pink' next spring and wait for the second lot of leaves?

Will I still get fruit? I wasn't expecting much fruit this year having just put them in this winter gone.

Since you're all rained out of your lottie's I thought you could give me the benefit of your experience

[roitelet]

I did read somewhere that planting Garlic round the base of fruit trees helps to reduce leaf curl.

[chris]

My peach has leaf curl each year despite stripping them off and pruning them. It started to fruit once then they all split. I think without growing them under cover of some sort they're always going to be very susceptible to it.

[Feral007]

Well with the amount of rain we don't get atm, you'd think they'd be fine!
I'll try garlic on the other side of them then my son read somewhere that there is something about strawberries that stops that as well. So I planted some of them along one side.
Now if the strawberries/peach/nectarines smell like garlic it will be interesting!

Shall just have to x the fingers on the fruit, and see what happens.