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?

If you notice your peach tree leaves turning yellow, this can be an early sign of a problem. Understanding some of the common ...

Question: Our peach trees are in bloom. Does that mean we should prune them at this time? Answer: Enjoy the fall blooms and delay normal pruning until January or early February. Early leaf drop ...

Fall comes early at my house with premature leaf drop on most of my maple trees now an annual occurrence. This year, however, has been particularly severe with leaves on my Norway Maples ...

Question: I have a new ‘Early Grande’ peach which produced over ... water applied each time you water. Leaf yellowing and drop is common when the tree is not getting enough water.

One thing that can disrupt this process is an early or sudden freeze. The process of getting the leaves ready to drop from a tree is a gradual process that encourages the bonds to incrementally ...

When it does warm up a bit, the early ... trees to smother a host of overwintering insects before the buds break. Peach and nectarine trees need to be sprayed with lime-sulfur spray to prevent ...

can result in stressed trees and early leaf drop in a number of our deciduous trees. We are seeing this happen with some landscape trees such as oak, crape myrtle river birch, maple, dogwood ...

A: That’s peach leaf curl. It’s a bacterial infection that overwinters on the tree’s twigs ... beginning when the plants come into bud in early spring, again as the petals fall and on ...