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- Make sure that the grass around your fruit trees is kept short. Grass deprives the trees of nitrogen.
- Pick strawberries as soon as they ripen for the fullest flavor. Protect them from birds by covering with netting. Fertilize well. Be on the lookout for aphids, spidermites and slugs.
- Don't be alarmed if immature apple trees lose some of their fruit. This is known as "June drop". Thin the fruit out even more when it is a little smaller than the size of a golfball. Leave one apple from each cluster.
- Remove suckers from blackberries and raspberries as they appear. Remove any canes that have been infected by "anthracnose". This fungus will dry out the plant. You can tell if your berries have this because there will be dark spots with gray centers on the fruit as well as on the cane.
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