Good weed control is most important early in the season, but fall may be a better time to get the job done. Good weed control is essential in modern orchards, where trees are planted at high densities on weak, shallow-rooted rootstocks and can’t handle much competition for water and nutrients. Given their choice, growers would like to have a simple, one-shot chemical program that would kill all the weeds in late spring and keep them down, at least for the summer during the vegetative and fruit growth stages. Some use such a program, but many don’t find time to address […]