Treating diseases and pests - page 2

Fireblight is a fast-spreading bacterial disease. It’s crucial to cut off and remove any infection before it spreads too far.

Tomato late blight is one of the most devastating diseases because downy mildew spreads extremely quickly.

Septoria has often caused many a gardener to wail in desperation. What plants does it affect? Which host is it hiding on over winter?

Prepare your own magic potions! Infusions, decoctions, fermented tea… take advantage of natural plant properties to easily prepare organic fertilizer and treatments at a very low price.

The bug often called “cherry fruit fly” is a tiny fly that lays eggs on ripening cherries. It’s also called the “cherry maggot“. Generally, this happens end of May or beginning of June, and can last until July.

Septoria is a species of fungus that infects vegetables, trees and ornamental plants. In some cases damage is insignificant, in others there’s no hope.

Though it loves water, in cases where drainage is bad you’ll have to fight off root rot because your Vinca is

Garlic decoctions are an excellent solution to treat most diseases and fungus that impact plants, fruit trees and vegetables in the vegetable patch.

Natural organic ant control is possible and effective. Here are a few tricks to fight against these tiny insects.

A long, thin body with terrifying plier-like pinchers at the tip, anybody will instantly recognize an earwig when it crawls along! In the garden, people often accuse it of damaging plants.

The Good Lord’s beetle is an incredible bug that feeds on aphids. It is the best of the gardener’s friends.

A 10th century legend, over a thousand years ago, relates the story of a man condemned to death for having murdered someone. As he claimed his innocence, a ladybug landed on his neck and the executioner stayed his ax.

Armillaria (or root rot) is a disease caused by a fungus that attacks ligneous plants. Ligneous plants are all those plants made of wood.

Whether in the vegetable patch, around fruit trees or near rose trees,

Weed tea, prepared by simply fermenting weeds in a pail, is excellent to treat plants against diseases. Here are the different types of weed tea and their uses.

Caterpillars are butterfly larvae that come in many different shapes, colors and sizes, but the damage they do is always the same.

Tomato pinworms are native to South America, and appeared in France in 2009 in the Drôme area. Since then, they have invaded all of France and spread to other European countries as well.

Appearing in eastern France in 2003, allium leaf-mining flies have continuously spread West and are today among the most devastating enemies of leek overall.

The sycamore lace bug can potentially devastate all plane trees. It is actually a stink bug that comes to “suck” the sap from the underside of leaves.

Infecting most ornamental plants such as cypress, willow or fruit trees such as the peach tree, apricot tree or cherry tree, canker is a fungal disease that

Green lacewing also goes by more dramatic and telling names: golden-eyed fairy, aphid lion, aphid wolf… and each name reveals how much of a beneficial insect this is to a gardener trying to control pests. Larvae from this insect family seem to have a single goal in life: to devour aphids.

These little striped beetles are definitely a hassle! The Colorado potato beetle devours leaves with terrifying speed!

A natural pest control solution, use fermented rhubarb tea during the plant’s entire growth phase. It is also possible to keep using the fermented tea after maceration for

Often called apple scab, this fungus is responsible for important damage to this fruit tree, but also to plum trees and pear trees.

Scale insects like mealybugs are among the most common parasites on indoor plants.

Scale insects appearing on a ZZ plant is a rare occurrence. Getting rid of them isn’t too difficult on

Every Spring season, it’s the same old story. You’re strolling through the garden, soaking in that frenzied feeling of nature waking up. Ka-POW, disaster strikes! Everywhere, slugs and snails chowing

This well-known oak tree parasite is a caterpillar that devours the leaves, until it gathers to form a nest that looks like a spider web.

Very small flies score the fruits with their ovipositor to deposit their eggs inside. These eggs will hatch inside the fruit, and the larvae will eat

Even though the number of fungal diseases called “rust” is very high, they almost always share the same symptom: brown-orange blisters

In these days of sustainable development and environmental protection, attracting animal and insect life in your garden is a necessity.

Tomatoes are often infected with fungal diseases (related to mushrooms). A typical gardener’s first reaction is to blast the whole plant with chemicals.

Powdery mildew is a fungus that belongs to the Erysiphaceae family and frequently colonizes certain plants. This mold appears in the form of a light velvety white layer or white spots on leaves, which is what makes it immediately recognizable.

Beans are a favorite in the vegetable patch, and not only for us! Many types of sickness-causing fungus and bacteria also love to infect bean plants. They cause brown or yellow spots,wilt, and other issues on bean leaves, bean pods and vines. Here are the main culprits responsible for bean blight.

Phytophthora is a word used to describe more than just a single disease. The term refers to many different plant pathologies which have more or less severe impacts (crown rot, mildew, ink disease, etc.) It’s more accurate to use the phrase “phytophthora diseases”.

One of the most aggressive killers in the garden, Botrytis is a fungal disease that can attack all sorts of plants. It forms gray mold after it enters through wounds

This little Otiorhynchus larvae, a kind of white worm, is also called “weevil”. It sets up its nest in root crowns of flowers, ornamental plants and vegetables.

Mold is nature’s way of recycling. It breaks plant matter down into nutrients for other plants to use. With a few natural tricks, you can stop

This blight is a true plight! Early blight covers tomato plants with black spots, and even makes the fruits inedible. From trying to avoid in the first place, to treating it with natural treatments, discover how to deal with this disease while using only completely organic techniques!

All the species and varieties of Hibiscus are vulnerable to aphids. Here are the symptoms of such an invasion, and how to treat it.

A fly that is slightly larger than the common housefly, onion fly is a destructive pest for certain Alliaceae plants. Not only do they reproduce extremely fast, but the larvae trigger bulb rot and eat the bulbs out from the inside.

Key facts Botanical name – Xylella fastidiosa Common name – Olive quick decline syndrome (OQDS), Pierce’s disease, Olive tree blight Family – Xanthomonadaceae Sub-species – fastidiosa, multiplex, pauca and sandyi Type – Bacterial disease Symptoms – leaf scorch, chlorosis, stunting, twig desiccation Until recent times, Xylella fastidiosa wasn’t mentioned very often, but nowadays it’s become […]

Whiteflies are tiny insects that can attack all kinds of plants, particularly: hibiscus, geraniums, greater celandine, fuchsia plants and certain vegetables

Thanks to fermented stinging nettle tea, create your own 100% organic fertilizer and parasite repellent! Discover fermented stinging nettle tea

Fermented horsetail tea is an effective fungicide that helps avoid most fruit tree and vegetable patch diseases.