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: After losing a prized peach tree to curl disease, I recently ordered a ‘Frost’ peach because I heard it is highly resistant to the disease. Are there other peach trees that are also resistant? A: ...

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, ...

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 ...