Old Monkey
Treehouser
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A customer the other day asked my opinion of using antibiotics on apple trees to prevent the spread of fire blight. I admitted to her that I had only ever treated fire blight by mechanical means, removing branches beyond the point of infection and cleaning disinfecting my tools with a bleach solution or lysol. Do any of you guys know about treating trees for fireblight? I know that there isn't a cure just preventatives. I searched AS and found a two page thread that questioned whether cleaning you snips between cuts it necessary. I guess some guy named Shigo said that it couldn't hurt to sterilize your tools but that no conclusive studies had been done on spreading disease with tools.
What are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts?