Peach drooling
"Trish Brown" wrote in message
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Kylie, I wonder if making muslin drawstring bags to hang around the fruits
might work? Muslin would allow the light and air in to swell the fruits,
but would keep out all but the tiniest of creatures. You'd probably have
to put the bags on while the fruits were still small and green: that is,
before the insects got a whiff of them.
I dunno... I've never grown stone fruits, but it might work?
Do you have a Spotlight nearby? They keep muslin of different weights and
also some of the sew-in interfacings would do just as well.
mmm, i love spotlight :-)
yes, next year we are going to do SOMETHING about the bugs. for this year,
our main aim was just to see what kind of fruit each tree has (the fruits
didn't make it last year), what diseases have carried over, etc. any fruit
we get is just a bonus for now! they're all going to be severely pruned
after fruiting, as they are a mess all around.
have been cleaning up & bagging the fallen fruits in the sun, to try to
limit the fruit-fly invasion. this is my children's job; it makes them very
cross ;-)
kylie
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