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Natural Sprays And Insecticides – Effective Ways To Treat Plant Diseases And Pests

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Nowadays, when natural produce experiences growing popularity, home grown products are one of the best options to be sure you get the healthiest and most delicious vegetables and fruits. But sometimes your crop is imperiled by pests or plant diseases. People tend to choose some chemicals to control pests or treat diseases, but you should remember that these pesticides usually expose to danger not only the pests, but also other living things, including your vegetables and fruits. Therefore, you should use some less harmful insecticides and sprayers. You can make the solution on your own. The article deals with effective ways to treat plant diseases and pests.

An effective way to prevent and frighten away pests relates to planting various plants in your garden the pests do not like.

How to Stop Fungus And Plant Disease When Container Growing

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Having your plants infested with pests, fungus and disease is any farmer or gardener’s worst nightmare. Although those little brown leaves or black spots could mean nothing at first, it is almost always too late to save the plant whenever damages are already visible. However, this it doesn’t mean growers should give up that easily.

There are several measures and tips to easily perform to prevent these kinds of problems:

1.Control the soil. There is a lesser chance of infiltration if the grower knows the kinds of soil present in the potting mix. This allows a greater sense of care and caution, and once fungi, disease or pest is present, it can easily be cured.

Organic Gardens – Plant Health Essentials

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Removing pests from your organic garden may not eliminate all your problems because your plants are susceptible to a wide-range of common plant diseases. This can cause some headaches but there are many easy and effective solutions to plant diseases. Here we shall cover the main symptoms and some of the controls available to the organic gardener.

Now, the thing about plant diseases is that some of the symptoms look a lot like the signs of a pest control problem. For example, you might notice:

• Yellow or brown leaves.

How to Keep Your Garden Disease Free

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Learn to control factors that cause common plant diseases.

No matter where your garden is located, you will have to deal with plant diseases. Even if you have had good luck in the past, there will come a day when disease strikes your plants.

Plant diseases can be caused by many factors including plants that have disease when purchased, bugs or weather. Weather conditions many change in your area, becoming hotter, colder, or wetter than is normal for your area. All of these factors can make your plants more susceptible to disease. You cannot control Mother Nature, but you can pick plants that are more disease resistant for your area.

Have you ever heard the old saying, “Talk to your plants and they will be happier and healthier?” Maybe that is because when you are talking to them, you are really looking closer at the plant and paying attention to what is going on. By talking to your plant, you notice if the leaves are getting droopy, turning yellow, have bugs, or are showing signs of disease such as black matter, water spots, or powdery mildew.

Here are a few tips to help you keep your garden disease free:

Tomato Plant Diseases

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There are sooo many diseases that can attack your tomato plants that it’s mind boggling. Here are a few of the most common tomato plant problems:

– Early Blight – caused by a soil born fungus and the culprit is excessive water and affects the foliage and the fruit.

– Blossom Rot – is caused by a low concentration of calcium in the fruit

– Late Blight – also caused by a fungus which manifests in moist soils and affects the foliage and the fruit.

There are ways to help combat these diseases and the fall is absolutely the BEST time to do it. If you are a serious gardener and want to produce your best crop ever, then you need to start conditioning your soil now. The following are some great organic ways to get that soil ready:

1. Pull out all the dead plants and if diseased burn or bag up and throw away.

2. Till up the soil to get it ready for a thick layer of your home made compost.

3. Mix compost and a fertilizer low in nitrogen but high in superphosphate, such as 4-12-4 or 5-20-5, (for calcium) in a big 5 gallon bucket, add water to make a tea like mixture and spread mixture generously over the entire garden.

4. Cover entire garden area with a thick layer of your home made mulch. (Made of grass clippings, wood chips, coffee grounds, dead leaves etc.)

Common Diseases

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Plants are living organisms, and like any living organism, they are susceptible to disease. From fungal diseases to bacterial infections, there are many different diseases that plants can fall victim to. Even the most tightly run hydroponics garden can fall prey to root rot and powdery mildew. However, indoor gardens grown in a tent are less susceptible than gardens using soil. As long as the water is clean and air is circulated and controlled for humidity, the chances are much lower than soil-based gardens.

The common diseases found in indoor gardens can be narrowed down into five categories: fungus, bacteria, viruses, water molds, and nematodes.

The most important thing the gardener can do is to make sure that preventative measures are being taken. Make sure that plants have access to enough clean water and (circulating) air, with the right amount of humidity. You want your plants to be healthy enough to fight diseases on its own before you have to take additional measures to protect it. Prevention is key, but the next important step is keeping a close eye on your plants for any signs of wilting and drying, even though you are providing adequate amounts of water and nutrients. These may be signs that the plant is starting to fall prey to disease.

5 Ways to Combat Common Garden Pests, Including Insects, Bugs, Birds, Animals and Plant Disease

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Do you have a garden? If so, do you have any pests? My guess is that you do have pests, regardless of where your garden is located. A pot of herbs on a windowsill may have pests like insects or mice. A container garden on the deck or patio may have pests like insects, birds, squirrels, dogs, cats, or rats. A raised bed garden, greenhouse or in ground garden may have all of the pests mentioned above, plus any animal that lives in the woods and fields surrounding the garden. There are a few things that work with no harm to anything but these small pests, which is what is preferred because we must always treat the earth and all that dwell thereon with respect. We can start with the smallest pests like insects and bugs and examine the available controls to see if they work.

1. Insects and bugs love the small tender green spring plants. My mother, who was a lifetime gardener, always sprinkled hardwood ashes on tender plants like lettuce or other greens, beans, squash or anything else that is planted early in the season. I don’t remember her ever using anything else as a “bug dust.” I usually use a dust that is harmless to dogs and other similar animals, as well as being safe for vegetables that are to be harvested and eaten. Depending on the weather, plants may need to be dusted every time the rain washes off the dust. The early season insects and bugs disappear with the early season and other insects and bugs take their place. We are talking about potato bugs, tomato horn worms, white cabbage moths, squash borers and all of their friends and relatives. I just continue with the same dust treatment throughout the changing seasons.

2. The next group of pests consists of the small animals and birds, moles, field mice, rabbits, skunks, squirrels, raccoons and ‘possums. My primary problem pests are crows, squirrels, and rabbits. Crows eat new corn, ripe strawberries and blueberries and sometimes new bean plants if they are early beans. The berries are easily protected with netting, which keeps away the crows as well as deer. Rabbits and squirrels eat anything that is tender and green, including onions and tender ears of corn. The only way to keep them out of the garden is to fence with chicken wire. About two feet high is enough to keep out rabbits, but squirrels will climb a fence if they are hungry. The squirrels we have are all so fat they are too lazy to climb a fence unless there is fresh tender corn to steal. I plan to try tying a piece of metal window screen around each cornstalk this year. Hope that will be too much work for the squirrels to deal with. I lay a piece of chicken wire down on my rows of corn as soon as it is planted. The wire keeps the crows from eating the corn sprouts. The “crows eating corn” problem has been solved for me for years.

Common Garden Diseases

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Before even looking at applications to treat plant diseases, try and prevent initial infection by being wise about proper garden hygiene. Constant and complete soil cultivation will vastly reduce the risks of disease occurrence. Choosing vigorous and hardy plants will also safeguard against a range of diseases. Many plant producers subscribe to virus-free certification schemes. So, when you come across them, it is a great idea to use only certified specimens.

The majority of chemicals that deal with disease are preventative only. So when disease is identified make absolutely sure that you cut out affected areas of the plant or grub out entire plants if the disease has got out of control. Never fail to thoroughly burn all resultant debris.

Keep plants in the prime of health and nourish them well. This will make them more resistant to disease attacks. But, if disease does occur, here is an alphabetical guide to identifying diseases and the correct methods of treatment.

Growing healthy tomatoes: disease and fungal prevention.

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Regardless of your level of experience in growing tomatoes, diseases and other problems associated with gardening are bound to challenge you at some point in your career. Although tomatoes are one of the easiest crops for beginning gardeners to grow successfully, there are still numerous maladies out there that may attack your tomato garden. Not to worry though, most problems you may encounter are preventable with good garden hygiene and maintenance. If your plants do contract a disease or fungus, the sooner you detect the problem, the better the plants’ chances for survival.

Some of the most effective ways of dealing with tomato garden diseases starts with prevention. Before you even begin planting, a little research is in order. Talk to some experienced gardeners in your local area and find out about the more prevalent diseases that occur in the region. Once you’ve identified the most common problems, you can find a tomato variety that has been specifically bred to be resistant to that malady. For example, if fusarium wilt and nematodes are a problem in your area, consider a tomato that has the designation “VFN” after the variety name. This code designates a natural resistance to that particular fungus. If there is a “T” tagged on to the name, the tomato plant is also less prone to be affected by tobacco mosaic virus.

Ask any gardener about their favorite tasting tomato, and they’re sure to tell you about some type of heirloom variety. Unfortunately, heirlooms have not been bred for disease resistance, just flavor, so they tend to be more susceptible to tomato diseases and pests. If you have your heart set on growing heirlooms, you must practice preventative medicine to keep your plants healthy. Consider staking or caging your tomato plants so that they are kept off the ground and air can more freely circulate between them. Excessive moisture on the leaves will promote fungal infections. Make sure your soil is healthy and packed with nutritious organic “humus,” which will keep your plants nourished. A good covering of mulch over the soil will keep the underlying soil moist without having to water excessively.

Three Tomato Plant Diseases – How to Recognize and Treat Them

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The very first time I grew tomato plants, I believe, it was a fairly successful season. What I mean is, I harvested a decent amount of fruits and it tasted okay. At the time I did not know anything about tomato plants having diseases, I never thought anything about the yellow leaves, and leaves with spots or even a fruit now and then having a dark spot on it.

It was not until I did a little research about tomatoes and planting them to have more success in future growing seasons, that I found out my first tomato plant had diseases. I also found that there are numerous problems you can encounter, but fear not because my first season was okay even though I did not know anything.

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