Pests and Diseases in your Garden: Everything you need to know

Today, reader, we bring you a guide that will surely interest you.

We talk about the different pests and diseases that can affect the crops in your garden. Without a doubt, it is something that you are interested in knowing.

Our experience tells us that it is one of the main reasons why a garden does not end up yielding the expected fruits and vegetables. This guide is long and complete. It has taken us a long time to collect this information.

Every year, pests and certain diseases cause significant losses to our crops, thus threatening our food security.

These conditions can easily spread across countries and even reach epidemic dimensions.

That is why it is convenient to know them thoroughly, to learn the most effective ways to control them. In this article we mention the most common agricultural pests and diseases in crops and in orchards.

Know its characteristics and what you can do to eradicate them.

You can select the crop which interests you to know what affects it and how to combat it.

Prepared?

Choose the Vegetable or Vegetable to know what plague or Disease affects it

Chard:Slugs and snails.
Avocados: Crystalline mites, rosellina necatrix prill.
Artichokes:Aphid.
Saffron:RhizoctoniaandFusarium.
Garlic: Onion fly,mildew,grasshopper.
Eggplants:potato beetle,red spider,whitefly,thrips,mildew,powdery mildew.
Broccoli:whitefly,aphid,caterpillar cabbageworm.
Canons:Slugsandmildew.
Courgettes: Thrips, aphids, leaf miners.
Onions: onion fly,thrips.
Cauliflower: Cabbage butterfly, cabbage fly, bugs, cabbage hernia, blackfoot,sclerotiniaand snails andslugs.
Asparagus: Asparagus beetleasparagusfly,rust,rhizoctonia,fusiarosisandgray mold.
Spinach:Slugs and snails.
Strawberries:Red Spiderandaphids.
Peas:Snails, slugs,aphids, birds.
Lettuces:Snails and slugs,aphids, birds.
Corn: Birds,aphids,thrips.
Melons:Aphids,red spider,whitefly,thrips,powdery mildew,mildew.
Turnips:mildew.
Potatoes:Aphid, potato beetle,whitefly,spider mite,potato tuber moth.
Peppers:Aphids,spider,whiteflies,thrips, woodlice,nematodes,powdery mildew, gray rot.
Leeks: Leek fly. It is avoided by plantingceleryand carrots.
Arugulas:mildew,powdery mildew.
Watermelons:Aphids,spider,whiteflies,thrips,nematodes,powdery mildew, vascular diseases,gummy stemcanker
Tomatoes:Whitefly, mites,aphids, fungi,thrips,spider,sclerotinia, phytophthora or phytophthora
Carrots: Carrot fly,aphids,gray grubs,wireworms,nematodes.

Articles: Diseases and pests of different crops and trees

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