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Protecting Your Plants from Fire Blight

Protecting Your Plants from Fire Blight

Mark Anderson

Fire Blight is a bacterial disease that affects plants in the rose family including; apple, pear, crabapple, hawthorn, cotoneaster, mountain ash, quince, rose, pyracantha, and spirea. The bacteria overwinters in...

Protecting Your Plants from Fire Blight

Mark Anderson

Fire Blight is a bacterial disease that affects plants in the rose family including; apple, pear, crabapple, hawthorn, cotoneaster, mountain ash, quince, rose, pyracantha, and spirea. The bacteria overwinters in...

Best Treatment Methods for Cedar-Apple Rust

Best Treatment Methods for Cedar-Apple Rust

Mark Anderson

Apple, Hawthorn and Quince Rust are closely related rust diseases that require two hosts to complete their life cycle. All three rusts can infect most varieties of Eastern Red Cedar...

Best Treatment Methods for Cedar-Apple Rust

Mark Anderson

Apple, Hawthorn and Quince Rust are closely related rust diseases that require two hosts to complete their life cycle. All three rusts can infect most varieties of Eastern Red Cedar...

Apple / Pear Scab? Here's How to Treat It

Apple / Pear Scab? Here's How to Treat It

Mark Anderson

Apple Scab is a fungus that causes spotting and scabbing on thefruit and leaves. This fungus can also be a problem on ornamentalcrabapple trees. A similar, yet different subspecies of...

Apple / Pear Scab? Here's How to Treat It

Mark Anderson

Apple Scab is a fungus that causes spotting and scabbing on thefruit and leaves. This fungus can also be a problem on ornamentalcrabapple trees. A similar, yet different subspecies of...

How to Treat & Control Peach Leaf Curl

How to Treat & Control Peach Leaf Curl

Mark Anderson

Peach Leaf Curl is a very common disease that affects the blossoms, fruit, leaves and shoots of peaches, ornamental flowering peaches and nectarines. PLC starts out in the spring as...

How to Treat & Control Peach Leaf Curl

Mark Anderson

Peach Leaf Curl is a very common disease that affects the blossoms, fruit, leaves and shoots of peaches, ornamental flowering peaches and nectarines. PLC starts out in the spring as...

What Causes Blossom End Rot?

What Causes Blossom End Rot?

Mark Anderson

Blossom End Rot is a physiological disorder of tomatoes where the tissue of the blossom end of the fruit (the part of the fruit opposite the stem) breaks down and...

What Causes Blossom End Rot?

Mark Anderson

Blossom End Rot is a physiological disorder of tomatoes where the tissue of the blossom end of the fruit (the part of the fruit opposite the stem) breaks down and...