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Plants, like us, get sick when their environment is unbalanced. Learn about the main diseases and how to treat your plants against them.

Black necrosis on leaves with a yellow border are the marks of alternaria, or early blight, on tomato plants

Tomato early blight, the dreaded Alternaria fungus: alternatives to beat it

Treating diseases and pests
Bean blight

Bean blight, 7 diseases that cause spots and wilting on beans

Treating diseases and pests
Phytophthora disease

Phytophthora disease on plants? Here’s what to know and do about it.

Treating diseases and pests
Guttation on an orchid leaf with beaker and measuring stick

Guttation and plant diseases, should you worry about those drops?

Special reports
Olive tree killing bacteria, xylella fastidiosa

Xylella fastidiosa, dreaded olive killer. Here’s how you can protect your tree.

Treating diseases and pests
Natural tips for an organic vegetable patch

Natural techniques for an organic vegetable patch

The Vegetable Patch
Botrytis gray mold

Botrytis, a formidable fungal opponent – Fear not! These tips will eradicate it!

Treating diseases and pests
Fruit tree winter treatments

Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments

The fruit Orchard
Iron chlorosis can occur in the tropics, like on this bougainvillea

Iron chlorosis, identify this disease and heal your plants in a few easy steps

Treating diseases and pests
Chlorosis on leaves of a bird-of-paradise plant

Chlorosis, yellow leaves that signal nutrient deficiency in plants

Treating diseases and pests
Symptoms of fire blight include red, dry leaves

Fire blight, a bacteria that flares through entire orchards in months

Treating diseases and pests
Seedling dying

Damping off – why do seedlings turn brown and die

Treating diseases and pests
Thrips damage

Thrips damage and symptoms

Treating diseases and pests
Leaf miner symptoms on an allium leaf

Allium leaf-mining fly, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease

Treating diseases and pests
Scab

Scab, everything you need to know about it

Treating diseases and pests
septoria plants

Septoria host plants – targets of this ravaging leaf spot disease

Treating diseases and pests
Spots of septoria infection on a tomato plant leaf.

Septoria, a leaf spot fungus destroying harvests – learn to destroy it instead!

Treating diseases and pests
A heavily rust-covered pair of rose tree leaves.

Rose tree diseases and how to treat them

Treating diseases and pests
Black spots on photinia red robin

Photinia black spot disease – treat and protect against spots

Treating diseases and pests
Soothy mold symptoms cause treatment

Sooty mold, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

Treating diseases and pests
Bordeaux mix fungicide

Bordeaux mixture, an effective treatment

Treating diseases and pests
Red spider mite

Red spider mite, best organic treatments to get rid of it

Treating diseases and pests
Diseased tomatoes infected with tomato blight

Tomato blight, effective organic treatments against downy mildew

Treating diseases and pests
Tar like black spots on maple leaf, yellowing and brown around the rim.

Black spots on maple leaves, treatment

Treating diseases and pests
Organic treatments for fruit trees

Organic treatments for your fruit trees

Treating diseases and pests
Healthy soil attracts all sorts of beneficial animals like this robin.

Organic tips for great soil health

Special reports
Tomato plant with no disease

Tomatoes without diseases

Treating diseases and pests
Small dots of yellow and a few brown blotches dot the top of a rose leaf covered in rust.

Rust, techniques and treatments to avoid it

Treating diseases and pests
Powdery mildew symptoms and treatments

Avoiding and treating powdery mildew

Treating diseases and pests
Disease killing cypress trees

Cypress canker

Treating diseases and pests
Grape blister mite

Grape Erineum mite, tiny spider causing blisters on grapevine

Treating diseases and pests
Garlic and clove on a countertop with a dark background, still life

Garlic decoction, technique and timing

Treating diseases and pests
Canker on the branch of a fruit tree with a drop of sap.

Canker, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

Treating diseases and pests
Whitefly

Whitefly, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

Treating diseases and pests
Black spot on leaves

Black spot disease, diagnose and treat it naturally

Treating diseases and pests
Peach leaf curl

Peach leaf curl, how to treat it?

Treating diseases and pests
European brown rot infecting a fruit

European brown rot, rotting fruit, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease

Treating diseases and pests
Hedge protecting plants from diseases

Turn your hedge into a protective barrier against diseases

Trees and shrubs
Tomato pinworm

Tomato pinworm, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease

Treating diseases and pests
Scab on an apple

Scab, avoiding the disease

Treating diseases and pests
Scale insects

Controlling Scale Insects and Mealybugs

Treating diseases and pests