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Old 15-02-2004, 11:42 PM
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Default Insect larvea in peaches

There are "natural" methods which may be used on a relatively small scale
with lots of labor. Use of dormant oil sprays, and light oil sprays for when
trees are in growth followed by sulfur sprays for fungus. In Georgia, South
Carolina, and North Carolina where huge crops of peaches are produced, some
of the most toxic legal sprays are used to produce decent to bumper crops.
Micronized sprays of oils and sulfur are not exactly beneficial if inhaled.
If chemicals are handled responsibly with all safety precautions, good crops
can be produced with little if any harm to the overall ecology or to human
health. This goes for all the stone fruits as well as pomes. There are those
that would scream at this and pronounce me the devil. Choose what you will.

"A" wrote in message
...
In my country Mauritius, peaches are infested with insect larvea before

they
ripen. We can`t
get proper good peaches without using lots of insecticides.
Do you have such problems in your country?

How do you deal with this? Is there a natural method to deal with this
problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Joseph.