Starting clean and staying clean is a year-round process growers can adopt to prevent disease, control pests and prepare for ...

Because powdery mildew does not significantly affect the health of most plants, treatment is seldom necessary or practical in the home garden. Many gardeners learn to live with the appearance of ...

Plant diseases occur in most gardens. Many happen on a yearly basis, others sporadically. Why disease occurs often is dependent on weather. In fact, there are three conditions that must exist for a ...

These plants were cultivated to resist common diseases like powdery mildew and root rot. Elha Wulansari / GETTY IMAGES In a perfect world, our plants thrive and blossom without a single setback—but ...

On a warming planet, your food supply depends on crops that can survive heat, drought and fast spreading disease. Now ...

There could be a fungus among us, at least in our gardens. Bacteria and viruses too, as well as water molds and nematodes. Plants get sick, too. So, this week, we’ll focus on plant diseases and what ...

With the cool, wet weather comes the bane of gardeners — plant diseases. Diseases are generally bad news, whether it’s black spot on your roses, rust on your rhododendrons, downy mildew on your ...

Maybe monsoon season is over and maybe not, but one thing we know for sure — with all this water and heat, we will be in the midst of a perfect storm for fungal diseases on our plants, especially ...

Last week I covered insect pests of concern in Indiana, and today I’ll cover four plant diseases of concern in our landscapes and woodlands. Like last week, this is certainly not a comprehensive list ...

A new biological mashup just dropped. “Pikobodies,” bioengineered immune system proteins that are part plant and part animal, could help flora better fend off diseases, researchers report in the March ...