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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.

Disease information

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

 Spots of septoria infection on a tomato plant leaf.

Thrips damage and symptoms

 Thrips damage

Septoria host plants – targets of this ravaging leaf spot disease

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

 Tomato pinworm

Peach leaf curl, how to treat it?

 Peach leaf curl

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

 Red spider mite

Rose tree diseases and how to treat them

 A heavily rust-covered pair of rose tree leaves.

Scab, avoiding the disease

 Scab on an apple

Canker, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

 Canker on the branch of a fruit tree with a drop of sap.

Rust, techniques and treatments to avoid it

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

Tomato blight, effective organic treatments against downy mildew

 Diseased tomatoes infected with tomato blight

Bordeaux mixture, an effective treatment

 Bordeaux mix fungicide

Avoiding and treating powdery mildew

 Powdery mildew symptoms and treatments

Controlling Scale Insects and Mealybugs

 Scale insects

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

 Olive tree killing bacteria, xylella fastidiosa

Black spot disease, diagnose and treat it naturally

 Black spot on leaves

Photinia black spot disease – treat and protect against spots

 Black spots on photinia red robin

Grape Erineum mite, tiny spider causing blisters on grapevine

 Grape blister mite

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

 Phytophthora disease

Whitefly, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

 Whitefly

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

 Bean blight

Turn your hedge into a protective barrier against diseases

 Hedge protecting plants from diseases

Organic tips for great soil health

 Healthy soil attracts all sorts of beneficial animals like this robin.

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

 Guttation on an orchid leaf with beaker and measuring stick

Damping off – why do seedlings turn brown and die

 Seedling dying

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

 Botrytis gray mold

Sooty mold, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

 Soothy mold symptoms cause treatment

Scab, everything you need to know about it

 Scab

Black spots on maple leaves, treatment

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

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

 European brown rot infecting a fruit

Organic treatments for your fruit trees

 Organic treatments for fruit trees

Cypress canker

 Disease killing cypress trees

Chlorosis, yellow leaves that signal nutrient deficiency in plants

 Chlorosis on leaves of a bird-of-paradise plant

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

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

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

 Symptoms of fire blight include red, dry leaves

Natural techniques for an organic vegetable patch

 Natural tips for an organic vegetable patch

Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments

 Fruit tree winter treatments

Garlic decoction, technique and timing

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

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

 Leaf miner symptoms on an allium leaf

Tomatoes without diseases

 Tomato plant with no disease

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

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