This year my wife and I have been trying out a few different methods for protecting our peach crop from bugs without using sprays. Primarily we deal with moths, plum curculio, and japanese beetles on our fruit, but we have seen other bugs. We mix together molasses, apple cider vinegar and water in old milk jugs to attract and drown the bugs. We have been catching a lot more than I thought we would too! Unfortunately we didn't get our traps out early enough to stop some of the damage, but it definitely seems to have helped as many of our peaches don't seem to have any damage yet at all. Our nicest looking peaches are then getting wrapped in disposable socks to protect them from any blemish and (hopefully) hold them to the tree once they are ripe and ready to fall! Between these methods, and utilizing our cleaning crew (our small flock of chickens) it is our hope that we will have a good crop! We'd love to hear of any passive solutions like this you have tried on your trees as well, so please share in the comments!

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