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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Columba Apr 2022 6:16pm, 16 Apr 2022 21,711 posts	Quote Pin Columba I think I found that one, Dooogs Flatlander I've taken to wearing cheap disposable gloves for that task.
Flatlander Apr 2022 6:38pm, 16 Apr 2022 2,408 posts	Quote Pin Flatlander Columba, I do have disposable latex gloves (I have boxes of faulty batches of gloves from the laboratory ) but everything still gets sticky (knives, scissors, string ......) and I find I can't let go of things, items get stuck together, or unwanted things stick to the gloves - it's like one of those comedy moments.
D2 Apr 2022 12:12pm, 17 Apr 2022 12,306 posts	Quote Pin D2 'scuse my ignorance but why do you grease your trees?
jacdaw Apr 2022 12:19pm, 17 Apr 2022 3,646 posts	Quote Pin jacdaw To stop them squeaking?
jacdaw Apr 2022 12:52pm, 17 Apr 2022 3,647 posts	Quote Pin jacdaw Sorry, being facetious. Codling moth control?
Flatlander Apr 2022 4:41pm, 17 Apr 2022 2,409 posts	Quote Pin Flatlander Yes, jacdaw. D2, greasing helps to reduce the number of larvae climbing up the trunk of the fruit tree.
Hanneke Apr 2022 5:14pm, 17 Apr 2022 88,241 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke JD, my client uses some kind of sticky tar you paint on the stem. Another client uses tape. I use nothing and haven't had any issues. Clients are about a kilometer away...
jacdaw Apr 2022 6:07pm, 17 Apr 2022 3,648 posts	Quote Pin jacdaw Just been looking into that; apparently only works for winter moth (wingless females), not codling moth (winged females).
D2 Apr 2022 10:49am, 18 Apr 2022 12,307 posts	Quote Pin D2
Columba Apr 2022 1:02pm, 21 Apr 2022 21,716 posts	Quote Pin Columba I've tried both sticky tar and grease bands, but not often enough to count as a controlled experiment. Last year (winter of '20 - '21) I put one on the trunk of a little apple tree that grows in the church grounds. It grows delicious apples, but they are very scabby. The apples subsequently grew without scabs... but mysteriously all disappeared in the autumn. The church grounds are on a route home for many of the students from the high school, so I suspect they were scrumped, and only hadn't been scrumped previously becaus of the scabs. I suppose that's a result of a kind.