Beating fruit fly at their game

We have had bumper crops with our fruit trees this year. Last year we used organic sprays to prevent fruit fly infestation. Unfortunately, the apricots were full of maggots but later fruiting peaches, blood plumbs and pears were unaffected. This year, we invested in very large fruit fly nets which we found on the internet. 

As soon as the blossom was gone and all the bee activity finished, we netted the trees, securing them tightly, closed at the trunk well above ground level where last year’s fruit fly lavae pupate. (Although we did try to remove all fallen fruit from ground.)

There is very little actual instruction on how to put these nets on the trees. Of course the day we chose was especially windy and the whole exercise proved to be very challenging to say the least! But we got there, resulting in a ghostly effect which appeared as if the garden had been decorated for Halloween, which ironically coincided with our activity. 

Pleased to say that we had a wonderful crop on every tree completely unaffected by fruit fly.

Baby Boomer Bloomer