Organic Fruit Trees

Reader Contribution by William Woys Weaver
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I want to raise apple trees organically, and I’ve read that you can protect apples by enclosing them in sandwich bags. Does that really work? I’d love to harvest some bug-free, chemical-free fruit!

I have personal experience with this technique and it does work, although not perfectly, and I’ve found an alternative I like better.

I have more than 20 heirloom apple, pear and quince trees on dwarf rootstock in my garden, and I’ve been fighting a long, drawn-out and — until recently — losing war against codling moths, the insects that cause worms in fruit with cores.

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