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Stan Cole starts with ... When is the best time to prune pears, I have a two year old packham pear and its now 4 meters high. It was suppose to be a miniture but I have doubts. Leave have some slug type insect and have be spraying with pyretheum. Have had numerous flowers and before parrots helped themselves to some fruit have been able to salvage two pears | About the Author Stan Cole Maffra (Gippsland) Vic 13th February 2008 2:21pm #UserID: 672 Posts: 4 View All Stan Cole's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Stan Cole Maffra (Gippsland) Vic 13th February 2008 2:22pm #UserID: 672 Posts: 4 View All Stan Cole's Edible Fruit Trees |
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D says... I have just purchased a three way pear and was told to prune in winter. My trusty gardening book by Peter Cundall (ABC Gardening Australia) indicates this as a job to be done in early June and also that some pears and apples benefit from a delayed winter pruning. If the pest is pear & cherry slug, he also recommends Pyrethrum mixed as instructed and add 2 tablespoons full of Clensel (not sure what this is) into each bucketful of mixed Pyrethrum. Two or three sprays at weekly intervals will apparently destroy the population. Good luck....let me know if it works as I may need to try it in the future. | About the Author D Tamborine Mountain 18th March 2008 1:17pm #UserID: 779 Posts: 8 View All D's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author D Tamborine Mountain 18th March 2008 1:21pm #UserID: 779 Posts: 8 View All D's Edible Fruit Trees |
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