Q: I have a peach tree that is about 4 years old and it has been producing some really good peaches. Last year, it developed peach leaf curl in the spring. That summer, it didn’t produce much fruit, ...

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 ...

In March of 2020, examining fruit trees with a landscape maintenance contractor at a client’s property, he asked me about the “curly leaf” on a plum tree. It is a condition I must have seen a thousand ...

Q: My plum tree has leaf curl. Is there anything I can do to get rid of it now that they have leafed out and have little baby plums growing? I sprayed all my trees with a dormant spray twice over the ...

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: ...

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 ...