This is the second year for my cherry & peach trees. I try to understand as much as I can on these forum's but quite honestly there are so many diseases & pests & timing I get confused. So from what little knowledge I have I'm doing the following, any other suggestions are more than welcome. I have one peach tree which has SAP coming out at the base. Hman suggested a small wire to try and kill the borer. The one hole that I saw was tiny, I did my best. I read about Nematodes and may give them a try if it continues.

I sprayed dormant oil on the trees on a warm February day.

Aphids and ants on the cherry leaves are a huge problem. Last year I sprayed fruit tree spray to kill them but it was an endless battle. The directions on the bottle state no more than 7 applications, that's 14 weeks. Time was not on my side. This year we discovered tanglefoot, it is suppose to stop ants from farming the aphids. I am hoping it will help. We will see. Last year the leaves curled really bad so I assumed I had a disease and used serenade as we were told its safe to spray daily if needed. Looking back I believe the aphids caused the leaves to curl.

There were very few blossoms on the cherry tree this year which was expected due to their young age. However the peach trees are loaded with small fruit. We plan on thinning as they are young trees and believe they will do better in the long run without the fruit strain this year.

We sprayed fruit tree spray once last week to kill the aphids. Tanglefoot will be applied this weekend. We have no intention on spraying it again this year. Then again who knows what will attack our current peaches.

So as you can see I'm very new at this. The learning curve is interesting and confusing. Am I on the right path?

Thanks.