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Fungal disease

Fungal diseases are the most dramatic of plant problems. When plants can’t reach a balance with their environment, fungus take the upper hand.

Close-up of red thread fungal disease on grass blades with pink mycelium visible

Lawn Diseases Are Spreading Fast This Summer — Spot and Stop Them Now

Lawn Care
Close-up of powdery mildew white coating on cucumber leaves in summer garden

Powdery Mildew Is Exploding Right Now — Stop It Before It Spreads

Treating diseases and pests
Close-up of rose leaf showing black spot disease and powdery mildew coating in summer

Three white powders, one orange dust, one black crust — your roses are fighting all summer long

Roses
Close-up of rose leaves showing black spot disease with yellow halos on dark green foliage

Rose Leaves Covered in Black Spots, Rust or White Powder? Act Now

The fruit Orchard
Close-up of rose leaves covered in black spots and yellowing edges in summer garden

Your Roses Have Black Spots, Rust, or White Powder — Here’s How to Fix All Three This Summer

The Vegetable Patch
Close-up of rose leaves showing black spot disease with yellowing and dark fungal lesions

Black Spots, Rust, Powdery Mildew on Roses: Fix All Three This Summer

Special reports
Close-up of rose leaves covered in black spots and yellowing edges in summer garden

Your Rose Leaves Are Covered in Spots — and Summer Is Making It Worse

Treating diseases and pests
Damping off

Preventing damping off: How to save your seedlings

Treating diseases and pests
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
Citrus foot rot, also called root rot, is severe but it can be treated

Citrus foot rot, protect your citrus grove from root rot

Treating diseases and pests
Phytophthora disease

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

Treating diseases and pests
Botrytis gray mold

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

Treating diseases and pests
Mushrooms that grow in the garden are often dangerous, but some are edible

Mushrooms growing in the lawn and garden, should I worry?

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Armillaria, honey fungus

Armillaria root rot, honey fungus, a devastation for all trees

Treating diseases and pests
Fruit tree winter treatments

Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments

The fruit Orchard
Symptoms of fire blight include red, dry leaves

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

Treating diseases and pests
Bed of bedding vinca (Catharanthus roseus) in full flower, pink and white blooms over glossy dark foliage

Vinca rotting and dying off, how to treat and save the plant

Treating diseases and pests
Seedling dying

Damping off – why do seedlings turn brown and die

Treating diseases and pests
Dead tree

Techniques to save a poisoned tree

Treating diseases and pests
Moldy tomato next to a healthy one.

Mouldy food, fruit and vegetables: what to cut off, what to bin

Health
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
Black spots on photinia red robin

Photinia black spot disease – treat and protect against spots

Treating diseases and pests
Leaf spot on strawberry tree

Strawberry tree problems, Arbutus leaves with black spots on leaves

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
Powdery mildew symptoms and treatments

Avoiding and treating powdery mildew

Treating diseases and pests
Disease killing cypress trees

Cypress canker

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
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
Ramial chipped wood is made from branches.

Discover BRF or RCW, Ramial Chipped Wood, the next mulch revolution!

Special reports
Scab on an apple

Scab, avoiding the disease

Treating diseases and pests