Washington Fruit and Produce Company planted alyssum between the rows of this new orchard to attract syrphid flies, which are good predators of woolly apple aphid. Dain Craver’s plan to produce potted apple trees to sell to city residents was almost derailed by a bad infestation of woolly apple aphids. Craver, an organic orchardist at Royal City, Washington, has more than 2,000 trees growing in five-gallon pots. The trees are on Budagovsky 9 rootstocks and double budded with Gala and Fuji, which are being intertwined as they grow. He planted them three years ago, and last year noticed that some […]