Peach leaf curl! Aaaauuuggghhhh!!!
ChickenKnittle told us that's what the problem is with our peach tree, so today I dutifully removed all of the affected leaves and put them in zip-locks, then threw them in the garbage can, far away from where the trees are.
Unfortunately, our neighbor, the one behind us, the one with nectarines, the one with nectarines that we deliberately planted our peach tree next to... her tree is full of this stuff. I didn't see one leaf that wasn't affected, and it looked to be pretty far along in its progress - all the leaves were curled in on themselves, and they were all pale. It looked pretty gruesome.
Don't know if our tree can be saved if it's in such close proximity to such a diseased one. We may need to do a mid-spring transplant to another location farther away from the nectarine.
Bummer.
Go out at night and surreptitiously spray your neighbor's tree with the appropriate chemicals.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it's too late to spray. That should have gotten done when the plants were dormant. Bummmmmmer.
ReplyDeletehmm, go out at night and de-leaf neighbors tree :)
ReplyDeleteIs this one of your new trees? Boo!
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