Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, Tom advises a reader whose apple and pears trees have been plagued by leaf curl year after year - Alamy We have two ...

Q: Although we faithfully sprayed our freestone peach tree with copper sulfate last fall, and again before leaf break in January, three-quarters of the tree is blighted with leaf curl that is causing ...

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, ...

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, ...

The National Garden Bureau designated 2026 as the “Year of the Ficus.” Your first thought might be the weeping fig (Ficus benjamina), the most commonly grown indoor ficus tree. Truth be told, the ...

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 ...