I have a 3-year old nectarine tree that looks very healthy in late spring and early summer. Last year it was full of fruit but later dropped every single fruit when they were still small. I suspect ...

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, ...

This summer, the Napa County Master Gardener help desk received many calls about peach leaf curl, a fungal disease that affects the leaves and shoots of peaches and nectarines. It causes distorted, ...

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: ...

What’s a quick hack for managing leaf curl? HANNAH: Is your nectarine tree riddled with leaf curl? A quick trick is to remove the whole damaged leaf and then the second flush of leaf that comes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Cold temperatures slow down many garden pest problems. But it is also a key time for gardeners to take action to prevent certain pests from becoming problems next spring. One of the most important of ...

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 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, ...