Awesome garden update, @exator.
Ladybugs are indeed a good, organic way to fight aphids.
What did you do to fight the curly disease? I had to remove both my baby peach trees, because they were heavily infected. But my red currant bush, and even the apple tree are infected too. I don't want to take those out too, but I couldn't find a decent, effective treatment yet....
I'm not really sure which brand but I used some fungicide I found in the basement. It's important to use it very early in spring or even winter, before temperatures rise above a certain level. I'm afraid there is no other practical way of dealing with the curly desease. If the trees are still very small you can build a small roof that protects them from rain, as the fungus needs moisture to infect the buds.
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