Summer Solstice Moon
A cooler morning beckons. Mummies to pluck off the cherry and plum trees. I’m going for manual disease control of a fungus peculiar to stone fruits, brown rot. The best way to cope with it is good hygiene, i.e. cleaning up infected fruits after they fall.
I’m going to try to get ahead of this by picking infected fruit off the tree before they fall to the ground. Moisture and heat, especially as the fruit ripens increases the spread of brown rot so removing the fruit early should help. I can do this because I only have four effected trees, two cherry and two plum. This would not be effective for a larger operation.
A week or so of consistent warmth, if not exactly summer heat, should boost growth. A week from today I begin the next phase of the International Ag labs program. I’m looking forward to completing the year, then having a full year with it next year.
Here’s a fruit gallery from our orchard on July 1st:
Blueberries
Pears
Apples in a bag
Elderberries
Plums
Currants
Quince
This gallery contains 8 photographs in all as photograph etc.
