Peach Tree Borer

[wdingus]

FYI. Here’s a conversation where both wood ash and lime/salt are discussed as defense against borers.

Save my peaches from borers, peach leaf curl, Oriental Fruit moths and who knows what else!

I have an uncle who’s had pretty good success with peach trees for 50+ years. He said an older gentleman told him when he was first starting out how he kept borers away. He keeps an inch or two of wood ash around the base of the tree, in a ring perhaps a foot or so in radius out from the tree. He did stress to me that it must be replaced/refreshed at least yearly. I figured what the heck, I have an abundance of ash, I’ve been doing the same thing on my trees since 2017 or so. Maybe it’s what’s …