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Re: [nafex] Neem Oil and Peaches
>From: "Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>
>
Thanks, Doreen. I will follow your suggestions for the next season.
Ward.
>
>Peaches are tricky about any fungal and bacterial infestation. I have
>found
>from experience (infestations that defoliated my peach trees) that you must
>spray neem when the trees are bare, before bud break, about the time you
>apply dormant oil. This application smothers or deters in some manner
>fungal spores and dormant bacteria left over from the previous season.
>They
>can't get a foothold. I then follow up with another application of neem at
>petal fall and a third when fruit is about the size of a quarter. The
>trees
>are totally disease free with this regime.
>Doreen Howard
>
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