Fruit Spray Schedules for the Homeowner

Gooseberries and currants

• Dormant sprays
• Cover sprays

Gooseberries and currants
Dormant sprays

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 sprays

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.