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 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, ...

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 ...

Q. Last spring my peach tree had peach leaf curl. What can I do to prevent it from reappearing this year? Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that causes red, warty disfiguration of peach leaves. Mild ...

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, ...

Courgette (Zucchini) crop is under attack from a devastating disease known as leaf curl disease. During a two-day farmers field day event which attracted over 27,000 farmers from six counties in Mt ...

Chilli pepper or hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.,) is an important spice and vegetable crop of family Solanaceae. Chilli is susceptible to various pathogens involving viruses, which cause heavy ...

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 ...