What to Do About Leaf Curl ⋆ Edible Backyard

Leaf curl will be showing up in your stonefruit about now – spring being the time when fungus comes out to play. My preference is to eliminate trees that religiously go down with severe leaf curl year on year – it signals to me, that they aren’t well suited to my place. For the ease of all, I’d rather discover another that loves it and grows with ease.All in all, I like to keep it simple and naturalchoose the right variety that matches conditions welltake the time to build diversity and soil strengthuse mixed, woody mulches to drive a strong fungal networkdon’t use artificial fertilisers, manure or other strong food – trees don’t need it! And overfeeding causes – you guessed it – fungal infections.don’t use fungicides – they wipe out all the beneficial fungi which leaves the tree wide open to pathogenic fungiand most of all, don’t panic when those leaves start to bubble and curl. They look ugly as, but truly – they ain’t no thing my friends.Vulnerable situationsThere are 2.Young trees...