Update - Crab CAR

[Bowsnbucks]

This isn't earth-shaking news, but our 1 home crab - Profusion - is pretty clean this year. No spray on it either. Since we got new neighbors, they dug out the junipers the old neighbors had planted - and the Profusion is showing no CAR this year. No junipers = no CAR anymore at our home. Crab apples on it look bigger and healthier too. Our other home crab - Sugar Tyme - is always clean, even before the neighbors' junipers were dug out. The ST is also loaded with 3/8" dia. "bird crabs". ST is a dandy DR crab, proving itself every year in hot, humid SE Pa. Both crabs have fed loads of birds fall through late winter, and early pollinators invade both trees when they bloom.

 

[bigboreblr]

Did a single spray of bonide copper spray. Surprised how well golden delicious, pristine, and droptine did. Really filled the tank with copper to control peach leaf curl on a few saturn peaches.

 

[Telemark]

No CAR on my Golden Delicious this year.

I went around in May and killed every red cedar I could find. I'll do another sweep in November or around the holidays and eliminate any new seedlings I find.