Ramorum blight has no cure. The 9 strategies below keep Phytophthora ramorum out of the garden and out of the region, starting with the buying habits that stop the pathogen at the nursery gate. The pathogen is a water mold,…
Downy mildew can strip a cucumber vine bare within 10 days of the first yellow patch. The disease starts as pale patches on upper leaf surfaces, then grows a gray to purple fuzz on the undersides overnight. Catch it at…
Your monstera was fine last week. Now its leaves are yellowing, the stems feel soft at the base, and the soil is still damp from the last watering. If the plant is wilting in wet soil, Pythium root rot is…
Your avocado tree looks thirsty even though the soil is wet. It takes as little as 6 to 8 hours of saturated soil for the swimming spores of Phytophthora to start a root infection, and the symptoms that follow look…
