Kitchen Garden Forum

My three-year-old fan-trained Peregrine peach tree has succumbed to peach leaf curl this year for the first time (the first winter I didn't cover it with polythene, that'll teach me...). I did spray it with Bordeaux mixture a couple of times before bud burst, but it obviously didn't do the job.

Anyway, now I've got it, is there anything I can do to stop it from ruining this year's crop? Should I be taking off the infected leaves now?

Peach leaf curl is a problem here too, although the dry spring last year seemed to prevent it on my almond and peach trees. I think it is carried in rain.

I take off any blistered leaves and give the plant a spray with seaweed and feed the roots well too so it has a chance to recover.

It does weaken the trees quite badly though after a few years.