A: Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that affects peaches, nectarines, almonds and apricots. It affects emerging leaves, shoots, flowers and occasionally fruit.

A: Peach leaf curl is a fungus disease that causes distorted, swollen and curled leaves and twigs. Infected leaves often drop early, and repeat infections usually kill the tree in two or three years.

Growing fruit trees has its ups and downs, and it takes work to grow your own delicious, juicy peaches. Peach leaf curl can certainly throw in wrench into the process.

When the symptoms of peach leaf curl appear on a tree in the spring, nothing can be done to control the disease at that time. Removing diseased leaves or shoots does not control the disease.

Q. Last spring my peach tree had peach leaf curl. What can I do to prevent it from reappearing this year? Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that causes red, warty disfiguration of peach leaves ...

If you have a peach tree, this may not be your year for peach ice cream. After an especially wet spring, many trees are afflicted with peach leaf curl, a fungal disease.

Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that causes red, warty disfiguration of peach leaves. Mild cases, in which only a few leaves are affected, will not harm the tree. Sometimes the discoloration ...

This is peach leaf curl. It does not happen every year, but when conditions are just right — the infection occurs. ... Trees with this disease can lose their leaves and be weakened.

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

Peach leaf curl has been a common disease of peach trees this spring in Vermont. The disease often occurs in wet, cool springs following mild winters. The fungus (Taphrina deformans) causes the ...

Here is a step-by-step guide for growing a peach tree from seed, from seed selection, preparation, and cold treatment to ...