Fruit Trees

[picker]

My apple tree grows the fruit but every year the fruits get a grub growwing insude and fall off.What and when do I do something to stop this .

[mazie]

This link might help picker

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=489

[Hymie]

You could try something like this:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vitax-Fruit-Tree-Grease-200g/253029080460?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

[KARL]

I had the same problem with a pear tree from which for well over a decade we have not had a single fruit grow past the size of a small plumb seed/stone. Working on the theory that the insects pupate after the attacked/dead fruit embryos fall off (i.e. on/under the ground right blow the tree), I laid out and weighed down some good plastic sheet on top of the ground and out beyond a radius equal to the height of the tree. I have now pulled off and disposed of all the flower buds that have appeared over the past two years. I will soon remove the plastic sheet to see what happens next summer. We have apple trees growing maybe some 30 metres distant - they have not so far been affected.