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Revised October 2008

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Contents

• How to use this guide
• Cultivar selection
• Application equipment
• How much pesticide?
• Pesticide safety
• Pesticide recommendations are subject to change
• Apples and pears
• Blueberries
• Cherries
• Gooseberries and currants
• Grapes
• Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots
• Raspberries and blackberries
• Strawberries
• Common insecticide and fungicide brand names and days between last application and date of harvest
• Insecticides
• Fungicides
• Measuring and mixing

Related publications

• G1917, Personal Protective Equipment for Working With Pesticides
• G6020, Fire Blight
• G6021, Home Fruit Production: Apples
• G6026, Disease-Resistant Apple Cultivars
• G6085, Home Fruit Production: Grape Culture

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Fruit Spray Schedules for the Homeowner

Gooseberries and currants

• Dormant spray
• Cover spray

Gooseberries and currants
Dormant spray

Apply before new growth starts. Needed on currants only.

Scale

• Material
  dormant or summer oil

Leaf spots

• Material
  sulfur
• Apply as leaves appear and unfold, repeat application at 10 day intervals up to day of harvest.

Gooseberries and currants
Cover spray

Apply 10 to 12 days after leaves appear and start unfolding.

Aphids, currant worm

• Material
  malathion
  or pyrethrins and rotenone
• Comments
  Malathion may be applied up to day of harvest.
  For pyrethrin and rotenone premix, repeat application every 5-10 days or as needed, do not apply within 1 day of harvest.

Leaf spots

• Material
  sulfur
• Comments
  See comments in "dormant" stage.

G6010, revised October 2008

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