fruit trees

[muller3acers]

When is the best time in the spring to spray your trees for bugs?

 

[me&thegals]

I don't spray, so I don't know. I would think, though, that the chemical packaging would have some type of spray schedule for it. Like, "at time of bloom and every 3 weeks after..." Hope you can find an answer

 

[Rosalind]

Depends on where you are. You can do a spring coat of dormant oil as long as the leaves haven't really popped out. After the leaves start coming out, you have to use something else though. I just do sticky red ball traps later in spring.

 

[nightshade]

how well do the ball traps work? do you buy new ones every year or can you clean them off and reuse them somehow?