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Last year I had a bad infection that made the leaves curl up and go brown.
Is there anything I can do now to help prevent the same thing happening again?
Is there anything I can do now to help prevent the same thing happening again?
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It depends on what made the leaves go brown.
The cause could be fungal, bacterial, aphids, fertiliser scorch, nutrient deficiency or maybe something else.
As a general rule, cherries do best in low-rainfall (Eastern) parts of the UK; they are often sickly in wetter areas.
The pest and disease links at the bottom of the following RHS page might help:
Cherries: sweet / Royal Horticultural Society
I notice that the RHS don't mention cherry/pear-slugworm, but they will also kill leaves - usually "skeletonising" so that most of the parts between the veins are eaten away or brown.
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In case someone wonders about slugworm........
From a few feet away they look like small elongated blackish-brown bird poo's (about a quarter to half an inch in size; 5-10mm) on the surface of the leaf; looking like a bird poo is perhaps a form of camouflage - it has tricked me a few times!
But when inspected closely, they are slightly too glistening for bird poo, slightly tapered at the rear end, slightly bulged at the front end and it is just about possible to make out their eyes as two small black dots..Comment
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