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| Peach Tree Leaf Drop |
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| Spots on the Peach Leaves |
This is how it looked under the peach tree, the other day. These are the spots I have been finding. M clipped a few leaves to take with him to show to someone at the nursery to find out what might be causing them. So far, the peaches seem to be unaffected, but, it it is bacterial leaf spots, then, according to what I've read online, the peaches might become infected, too. So far, however, the peaches seem to be OK:
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| Baby Peaches |
In the morning, I watered the peach tree, the orange tree, and the buddleia, which is developing a flower stalk!
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| Buddleia Flower Stalk |
At the very end of March, my friend S had brought me some groceries including two sweet potatoes. I cut off and discarded the top of the first one that I cooked, but, I decided to try to root the top of the second one. I suspended it in a jar of water and after a week or so, it developed roots and shoots. Today, M cleared a space in the back yard, behind the garage and the shed and planted it:
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| Sweet Potato Vine |
I feel like I didn't get a whole lot of things done inside the house, today, but, I did dust the shelving unit in the family room, rearranged one shelf in the freezer (stuff kept sliding off every time I opened the door!), and I cleaned one bathroom.
Today, I am grateful for:
- My daughter's help with something this morning
- The pharmacy will deliver my prescription refills to me
- M's help with the garden
- The car started without any problems
- A sunny day
My joyful activity today was walking in the garden.
Friday's To Do List:
- Clean the bathrooms - Did one
- Do one deep cleaning task - Did the family room shelving unit
- Have M check out the peach tree - DONE
- Start the car - DONE
- Start the car - DONE
Saturday's To Do List:
- Catch up day - any cleaning that didn't get done during the week for whatever reason!
- Clean the other bathroom
How was your Friday? Have you seen spots like the above on peach trees, if you have any? Or on other fruit trees? What are your plans for the weekend?
- Clean the other bathroom
How was your Friday? Have you seen spots like the above on peach trees, if you have any? Or on other fruit trees? What are your plans for the weekend?
I don't know the first thing about peach trees so can't offer any advice I'm afraid. I do hope you manage to treat it and don't lose the tree.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching the Royal Ballet perform Anastasia tonight (been looking forward to this for ages!). As for the rest of the weekend, mostly ready but I also want to take some better photos for my curve photo challenge as my first attempts weren't quite right.
I checked the tree this morning and didn't notice any new leaf drop, other than two yellowed ones. I watered it, again, this morning.
DeleteSounds like you have a good weekend plans! Thanks for the reminder about the curve photo challenge! I had picked out a couple of potential objects to photograph, but, haven't done so, yet! Better get busy, Bless!
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DeleteLOL, I assumed that was what you meant to say, Eileen. Although, there's nothing wrong with being mostly ready for the weekend! :D
DeleteSo many of my blogging friends have the most amazing gardens. I’m jealous.
ReplyDeleteWhy not try planting another garden, again, this year? I know you tried last year, but, maybe you'll have better luck this year!
DeleteIt's been my experience that fruit trees will drop leaves when they get too hot, but usually do okay anyway. Maybe your recent heat spell stressed you peach tree. We had a peach tree at our other house and the squirrels always got a lot more than we did.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right, Live and Learn, and the leaf drop is connected to the heat wave and not enough water during the heat wave! It's not quite as hot, right now, and I am watering it more. We shall see if it recovers! No squirrels here (the garden cats might have something to do with that!) but, when I had the old peach tree, the birds used to manage to get a fair amount of the fruits!
DeleteI do hope you can find an answer to the peach leaf problem. I hate it when plants have problems! When your buddleia flower opens you will have a lot of butterflies to enjoy. I remember my mother used to say something like, "Girls that grow buddleia tend to grow cuddlier". I don't know where she got that from.
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd like to do some baking yesterday but by the time I had finished looking at recipes I was too tired to bake!
Thank you, Bushlady; I do hope that M will be able to find an answer from his nursery guy. I am looking forward to the buddleia flowering! I like your mother's saying!
DeleteToo funny about being too tired to bake after you finished looking at recipes! I've had that happen to me, too! In fact, I looked through a couple of my recipe books, yesterday, and ended up not baking anything after all. Which is probably better for me, anyway! Although, I did dig out some frozen mini eclairs and had them, instead! All in the name of making more room in the freezer, you understand! They were in the original container they came in and now, the remaining 6 or 7 are in a much smaller container. :D
It's so annoying when plants get spots/holes etc.
ReplyDeleteWe had, for the first time last year, red lily beetles. Never before! How did the beetles know that we had lilies, how did they know that ours was the right garden to target? Husband picks them off but the little blighters keep coming. We would not be able to grow peaches as the climate is wrong. I remember in Spain walking down the shopping street and seeing the lemon trees - it fascinated me. We'd only be able to grow those indoors
I try not to use pesticides in my garden, but, it seems hard to grow fruits without something or the other. The citrus trees don't seem to be faring too badly, but, I seem to have more trouble with stone fruits. I've had two other peach trees, a plum, and a nectarine, all of which died from one disease or another. :( My citrus trees, however, seem to be doing OK.
DeleteI hope M will find a solution for the spots on your peach leaves.
ReplyDeleteI planted a sweet potato vine grown from a store bought potato, it grows in a clump. It doesn’t spread. 😊 I have another small piece sprouting in water, so hopefully it will grow better than the other one.
M wanted me to send him some pictures of the peach leaves, today, as the leaves he took with him, yesterday, apparently didn't do too well, overnight. But, the nursery people seem to think it is peach leaf curl. I don't think so, because the images I am seeing online when I searched for it show entirely different symptoms. I think it is bacterial leaf spots, also called shot hole disease because the centers of the spots fall off, leaving little round holes, as if they've been shot with a pellet gun - I am seeing that, on some of the leaves, today! Apparently, wet winters/springs can cause the bacteria to grow and there is no treatment, as such, except to spray the tree in the winter, when it is dormant. So far, the fruit haven't been affected, and I am hoping that will continue to be so. If not, I'll have to find recipes for unripe green peaches! Apparently, one can pickle them! Or, maybe I can experiment and substitute green peaches for green mango in a curry?
DeleteMy sweet potato didn't like being planted in the garden! I took a picture and I will post it, later. I wonder if yours is a new clumping variety? :)
Oh no - your poor little peach tree. I see from reading your comments that you've pinned it down and it's not fatal to the tree which is good.
ReplyDeleteI will be curious to see how the fruit manages. The picture shows a lot of fruit which is so nice.
The disease can damage the tree, eventually, but, hopefully, I can save the tree. I, too, hope the fruit will be OK. Last year, all the fruit dropped while they were no bigger than almonds! This year, the leaves are affected, but, so far, the fruit seems OK. Keeping my fingers crossed. :)
DeleteIt's been so long since it has rained here that the garden is looking quite parched. I'm having to water it regularly.
ReplyDeleteI hope your peach tree will be OK. X
Oh, wow, and here I thought that it rained quite a bit in your area! I'm sure your garden is thriving with you watering it regularly, though. Thank you; I, too, hope the peach tree will be OK. Fingers crossed and all that! :)
DeleteI was expecting a lot of rain over the weekend but we got surprisingly very little. Friday morning started off overcast but the rain didn't come until the afternoon. I decided to get out fairly early Friday morning to work on the garden, so by the time the rain started I was having yet another nap on the couch. Your garden is looking quite lovely. I am hoping your peaches ripen and give you a bountiful crop. Then this winter you can apply the dormant spray to the tree in order to save it.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got some rain and a nice nap to go with it! I, too, hope I'll be able to get some ripe peaches, this year! I'd like to make some peach jam to share with my daughter, if possible. Yes, I will be spraying the tree, this winter and hope to get this peach leaf spot under control!
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