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Inherited pear tree help

Russell Price · 2012-12-31 17:02:08

Am a real newbie to the Gardening world and need some advice with a pear tree we have inherited with our new house. We had some pears appear on this tree this year but all didn’t look too healthy, majority of the leaves have black spots on and there is a lot of dead wood on the tree. It was also smothered in Ivy which I…

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flowering rose Posts: 1,632

December 2012

I tie a cease band round the fruit trees to stop pests (namely ants) spreading diseases and I try to avoid spraying with chemicals,(soapy water is as far as I like to go)and good pruning helps ,(dead wood and cross over branches e.t.c.).

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