Peach Leaf Curl
Sara Said,
I would like to know how to combat it, how you know if your tree has peach tree curl, and any other helpful information anyone would like to share.
Peach Leaf Curl Treatment
While treatment of peach leaf curl is not always effective once symptoms occur, the disease is fairly easy to prevent.
Peach leaf curl is a fungus disease called Taphrina deformans. It can cause defoliation and crop loss on nearly all varieties of peach and nectarine trees.
Peach leaf curl is a water-activated fungus that's hard to stop once it starts. Lime-sulfur or copper-sulfate sprays three times a year can help prevent and control the disease.
Peach leaf curl disease is an extremely disfiguring fungus disease. Soon after they appear the young leaves become distorted and turn red.
The article entitled "Peach Leaf Curl", published in 1998 by the website "Gardening With the Garden Helper", gives the following information on the disease. It says the symptoms of peach leaf curl are red or purple, distorted and curled leaves.
Treat your peach (Prunus persica) and nectarine trees before early March with lime-sulfur (Bordeaux mixture) to prevent peach leaf curl.
Peach trees can be attacked by aphids, birds, red spider mites, earwigs and root-knot nematodes. Diseases include botrytis, bacterial canker and peach leaf curl. However patio grown trees are less likely to suffer from these problems.
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This fall spray will also help control shothole -- a problem on the West Coast -- and peach leaf curl, a widespread disease that weakens and can defoliate trees.
Dr. Garden gets a lot of calls about the proper timing and products to use as a dormant spray on backyard fruit trees. Dormant sprays control diseases such as peach leaf curl, brown spot, scab, etc. and insect and mite eggs.
 See also: Leaf, Plant, Gardening, Spring, Ornamental
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