In the meantime I have a peach thief in the garden.
Would you believe that "Fendi" my basset hound - has a passion for peaches. She reachs up and literally devours all the peaches -well she snatches a peach off the tree and and then loads of other unripe ones fall on the ground. You wouldn't have thought a dog would like fruit now would you - so to prove it I have caught her in the act!
I have three precious peach trees/peche de vigne type in the garden. They yeild kilos and kilos of peaches about this time every year even though they have this dreadful maladie called "peach cloque".
I just noticed that in my neighbours garden he has the same type of tree - but hanging from his branches are empty eggs in a plastic bag - and his trees don't have this disease !
How about that for a unfathomable bizzarie.
My neighbour ties a plastic bag with two or three empty egg shells in Springtime or just about the time the tree is about to flower and until fruition. The coquille must be emptied completely by piercing a hole at each end and draining the yolk and white - then washed and placed in a bag and tied with string to a branch - voila c'est tout. No more disease. Well it works for him and I will let you know next year if it does for me. How this can possibly work scientifically I do not know.
