On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:25:31 +0000, usenet2012
wrote:


Last year the peach etc. in pots on my patio were devastated by peach
curl. I removed all the affected leaves and sprayed them in the autumn
with copper fungicide.

I see the RHS recommend keeping emerging shoots dry using plastic
sheeting. I'm going to try this but is it worth also using the copper
fungicide again? If so, when?

I've a peach or nectarine growing in with my magnolia stellata. I
think I must have put in a stone when the magnolia was still in a pot.
It's been in the ground over 10 years.
The peach, or whatever it is comes up each year but often gets
peach-leaf-curl. I usually cut off all the offending leaves and last
year had to cut back a lot of it to stop it swamping its bedfellow.
Last year it did flower well, so this year I may leave it to see if it
gets any fruit, and hopen the leaves don't get too much curl.

Pam in Bristol