Botrytis cinerea goes by many names: gray mold, ash mold, or ghost spot. If you spot any signs of this problem in your garden, it's important to act quickly. Kevin Espiritu explains how to treat and prevent Botrytis cinerea in this complete guide. Contents If you’ve ever checked on yo...
Fireblight is a bacterial disease affecting apple, pear, crabapple, hawthorn, and quince. It spreads quickly between trees in close proximity. Pollinators, rain and wind can spread the disease. The pathogen (Erwinia amylovora) can spread through the va
Spray fungicide on tomato plants affected by early blight. Early blight usually occurs toward the end of the tomato growing season. Look for small, brown lesions on lower leaves and foliage that gradually enlarge and spread to include leaves higher in the tomato vine; these spots often develop ...
Tomato Blight: How to Identify and Treat Late Blight in Tomatoes Since 2010,Tomato Dirthas garnered 4.8+ million views, making it the web’s leading online source for growing tomatoes in the home garden. Award-winning writer and Tomato Dirt owner Kathy Widenhouse has helped thousands of home ...
Let’s take a look at how to identify and treat it. When you know what you’re looking for, it’s a lot easier to take swift action to save your plants. What is Alternaria? It’s most often referred to as “leaf spot” or “leaf blight,” as it almost always affects plants’ ...
soil to bemoist all of the time. However, they don’t like for their soil to be soggy. This is one of the fine balances that must be struck for these plants to thrive. Whether or not your container has drainage holes will also affect how often your flame violet needs to be watered....
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Remove any and all plant debris from the soil around them, and once the growing season is over, turn over the soil to solarize it. This should kill off many spores within the soil, but you can also treat the area with fungicide to eliminate as many of them as possible. ...
Garden peas or English peas for shelling Snap peas Snow peas Varieties of peas to growPeas and temperature The optimum seed starting soil temperature for peas is 75°F; this makes growing peas for fall harvest a strong option when they are planted 55 to 70 days before the first frost–depen...
Treat the seeds with a seed-protectant fungicide. Seasons: Soil temperatures for damping-off vary depending on the pathogenic fungus. Risk level: Damping-off is a common and fatal disease that affects all types of plant seedlings. 5. Diplodia (Sphaeropsis) Tip Blight Diplodia Tip Blight Photo...