Learning about some of the worst garden pests can help you take speedy and effective action to curb crop and cultivated plant ...

Picking hornworms off your tomatoes and putting them in a bucket of soapy water is another physical control method. Removing a diseased tomato plant before the disease spreads to the entire row is ...

Just like weeds, the sooner you deal with pests or diseases, the easier it will be to control ... (Bacillus thuringiensis), a naturally occurring bacteria that feeds on larvae. Another option is ...

Good cultural practices in genetically resistant plants can often slow or limit the incidence of fungal disease. Fungicide applications can supplement preventative control measures if/when a ...

The goal of this “disease garden,” as Dr. Beckerman, a professor of plant pathology ... or even every life stage of the ones they can control. Insecticidal soaps or horticultural oils are ...

that the fire-blight of apple- and pear-trees is due to Bacillus amylovorus. Since that time the number of known bacterial diseases in plants has greatly increased, and such diseases have now been ...