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Prop Up Fruit Tree Limbs if Needed
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Heavy fruit loads this season may cause limbs to break if
they are not given extra support. As fruits increase in size,
the additional weight on...
Kansas Fruit Tree Care: Dealing with Heavy fruit loads
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Heavy fruit loads this season may cause limbs to break if they are not given extra support. As fruits increase in size, the additional...
Thinning Excess Fruit
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Many areas of Kansas have avoided late freezes resulting in a
heavy fruit crop this year. At first glance, this might seem to be a
good...
Peaches and Apricots
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Many parts of Kansas will have a peach and apricot crop that wasn’t badly hurt by late frosts. To take advantage of this good...
Fruit Tree Sprays and Rain
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A spreader-sticker should be used in fruit tree sprays to improve the distribution and retention of fungicides and insecticides on fruit and leaves. However,...
Fertilizing the Home Orchard
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Fruit trees benefit from fertilization around the bloom period, but the amount needed varies with the age of the tree. Normally, trees primarily need...
Apple Tree Sprays
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Two common diseases on apple trees are cedar apple rust and apple scab. Though some apple varieties are resistant to these diseases — including...
Dormant Oil Sprays for Fruit Trees
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There are a number of dormant sprays used on fruit to control
various diseases and insects, but a dormant oil spray is designed to
control scale...
Approaching Time for Peach Leaf Curl Control
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If you have ever seen emerging peach leaves that are puckered,
swollen, distorted and reddish-green color, you have seen peach leaf
curl. Uncontrolled, this disease can...
Fruit Trees and Frost
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Spring in Kansas is often unsettled with apricot and peach tree flowers being the most vulnerable to late frosts. Of course, the tree itself...