Let's go back to the story of the orchard. When we left off, we were cautiously optimistic about the peach crop. We had spent hours pruning the trees, thinning young fruit, clearing away weeds, and mulching the rows in an effort to increase light penetration and airflow and decrease competition. All the right cultural practices were in place; the only other step to stave off fungus was to spray. We're lazy. Even though I had researched what and when to spray, and where to