Cherry Tree

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Our cherry tree had a ghastly problem where the leaves would curl up and be full of a black gooey mess inside. It also had lots of ants all over it, I seen a programme on tv about a fungus that lands on the ants head which makes it climb up the tree, I wondered if this was what the black gooey mess was.

At the start of the spring I decided to put a 2 inch band of grease around the bark, and it worked. no ants and no gooey leaves. The tree looks great, next problem. Stopping the birds stealing the cherries, yet to get one off it. lol
 
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Our cherry tree had a ghastly problem where the leaves would curl up and be full of a black gooey mess inside. It also had lots of ants all over it, I seen a programme on tv about a fungus that lands on the ants head which makes it climb up the tree, I wondered if this was what the black gooey mess was.

At the start of the spring I decided to put a 2 inch band of grease around the bark, and it worked. no ants and no gooey leaves. The tree looks great, next problem. Stopping the birds stealing the cherries, yet to get one off it. lol

I grease band all my fruit trees, mainly for the climbing moths.
 

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