Nectarines, like cherries and peaches, are a magnet for insects and diseases. Something about the sweet, juicy flesh of stone fruits attracts bugs like, well, flies to honey. The same routine for other stone fruits – spraying the trees for several months with various pesticides, fungicides and petroleum-based horticultural oils – is followed for nectarine protection.
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Excerpted from To Buy or Not To Buy Organic, copyright 2007 by Cindy Burke. Used by permission of Avalon Publishing Group.All Rights Reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced except with permission in writing from the publisher.
