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General Fruit Growing

Moley July 8, 2016, 3:56pm 2

Early-Spring and General Spray Questions for 4-yr old Maryland Orchard General Fruit Growing

Here’s something that won’t be a great guideline for you because we have a somewhat different pest complex in the SE NY area, but it should be of interest. This is something we may want to archive along with Scott’s spray “schedule” REPRINT PERMISSION FROM ALAN HAIGH REQUIRED Low Spray Schedule for Home Orchards in the Northeast Here’s my spray schedule for the scores of orchards I manage around SE NY adapted for home owners managing a few fruit trees. It has functioned well for me for…

Low Impact Spray Schedule (old version) General Fruit Growing

I have been promising for some time to type up a draft of the “low impact” spray schedule I use. Here it is, drafty but it will be refined. My rough guide for low impact is no wide-spectrum poisons. Spinosad is about as broad a poison that I use. I don’t personally draw the line at organic vs not, but this schedule is mostly organic and I will suggest some substitutions if you want to be 100% organic. If you want to have a philosophical debate over what to (not) spray, please put it on a dif…

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