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Orchardist/gardener in central MN. Apples, cherries, pears, and plums. started in 2009, have about 120 trees now. (Peaches too if I can every get a zone 4 rated peach to actually survive winter.) started no till gardening 2 years ago and finding it to be a better approach than tilling at least for me.

last year cherry fruit fly showed up and ruined my cherry crop. hoping to get advice here.

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Hi Wilbur, welcome to Permies! It's always nice seeing other Minnesotans show up.

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Welcome to Permies!

I only have a few fruit trees on my property so I have some tree envy! I hope you can find some solutions here.

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Welcome! Your orchard sounds lovely and yummy.

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Hello Wilbur, good luck with the peaches!
I found this thread talking about one sort of cherry fly issue. I'm sure I remember another thread talking about barrier methods of protection, but I can't seem to find that now. Usually the key is to break the life cycle of the pest, or to create environment for a predator to deal with it rather than trying to remove the problem yourself.

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