Day 110

Our peach tree has a fungus. The contrast of the red on the green leaves is kind of pretty now but it kills the leaves and ruins the fruit. We've sprayed fungicide on it twice now and it didn't stop anything. It turns out you have to totally soak the tree after the leaves fall in autumn to kill all the spores because otherwise they're in the leaves as they develop. I wish I'd known what it was earlier so we wouldn't likely be losing all the fruit again this year. There are already tiny baby peaches visible all over the tree. Maybe the spraying I've done will at least stop the fungi from ruining all the fruit. We've never tried to pick our apples or peaches before but we wanted to this year so we got the insecticide/fungicide spray but maybe the fall is when we need to do that stuff. The apple tree is still blooming so I haven't sprayed it at all because it could kill bees which isn't helpful for anything.