The best way to avoid leaf curl is to grow resistant varieties of peaches and nectarines, so if you are planning to buy fruit trees, keep this in mind. Resistant peach varieties include frost ...

Peach leaf curl is one example of the many fungal diseases that are more common in years with frequent rainfall in spring. “Fungus spores multiply on wet surfaces,” he said.

Master gardener Leimone Waite answers readers’ questions about plants, garden tools and their use, and gardening techniques.

For peach and nectarine trees, you should remove 50 percent of last year’s growth. Fig, apple, ... Peach leaf curl does not kill the tree, but it looks awful; the leaves curl and fall off.

THE disease known as peach-leaf curl is due to a fungus called Exoascus defonnans (Berk.), and seems to be more or less common and destructive wherever peach-trees are grown. It is almost confined ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. Peach leaf curl, which affects both peaches and nectarines, is a devastating fungus disease.

Leaf curl disease also affects stone fruits such as apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums. The disease that affects peach, nectarine, and almond trees is caused by the evil fungus ...

Ruud Kleinpaste discusses taphrina deformans, otherwise known as peach leaf curl, and how to treat it.

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. Peach leaf curl, which affects both peaches and nectarines, is a devastating fungus disease. It appears on new leaves which pucker and curl in ...