Preventing Moths: Essential Fruit Tree Care Info
Posted on 04. Oct, 2008 by designandfashion in Fashion
Achieving a steady supply of fresh fruit from your backyard is great. Many people strive to attain this goal. However, many gardeners fail to know how easy it is to obtain a fairly serious infestation of worms in their fruit. I can’t think of anything more unpleasant than biting into an apple off of the tree you’ve slaved over for so long, only to find that you have not been diligent enough with your pesticides.
Even though it seems like a chore to regularly be spraying pesticides, it is a task that you should never overlook. Spraying pesticides is a fairly quick and easy process, and you shouldn’t have to do it very often at all.
Spraying can seem like a time consuming job After all, you have to go out and get all the supplies, mix the chemicals, apply them, and clean up everything you used in the process. You may require a ladder to reach all segments of the trees. The entire job could take up to four hours if you have several large trees. Doing this every 2 weeks can get very tiresome and irritating. However, you should always persevere. Generally being diligent in your regular spraying will help prevent infestations of such things as moths, but sometimes it’s just not enough.
Generally you can recognize if moths have laid eggs on your trees by the ends of the branches. If you see something that looks like a cluster of moth eggs, you must immediately prune the branch you found it on and destroy it. Examine the rest of the tree very thoroughly. If the eggs were to hatch, you would have a huge amount of moth larvae crawling around through your tree and into your fruits. I don’t know about you, but the very thought of this makes me wretch.
I once had a friend who was dealing with a very bad moth infestation. He couldn’t find a single fruit on his tree that didn’t have a worm inside of it. He had to cut down the entire tree and have the stump professionally removed to get rid of all traces.
I myself live in the same neighborhood as that friend I just mentioned, and I have never had a problem with moths. This is because every Saturday during springtime, it’s part of my schedule to spray down my entire tree. Preventing the infestation of unwanted guests is much better than having to cut down a tree and start completely over just because of a little laziness.
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