The enemies of gardening, not only
individuals also pubric, are harmful insects, animals and pests. Sometimes they
eat away many parts of plants; beautiful foliages and flowers. Especially,
vegetable gardens get more dameges from these bad elements. But almost all of
them are not scary if you take appropriate care for them.
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| Spittlebug |
Not all of insects in the garden
are not harmful; some are rather helpful than harmful for gardens. For example,
ladybugs are eating aphid, one of major insect pests of gardens. There are many
other pests in the garden; scale, leaf miners, spittlebugs and so on. Most of
them are difficult to recognize that they are bugs at a glance. Scale insects
look like knots on stems of plants. Leaf miners make zig zag tracks on leaves. Spittlebugs
make clump of form and hide in it. They sip juice from plants and it can make plants
weaken. If you find these pests in your garden, remove them away from the
garden immediately. Galls are one kind of signs of these diseases. Actually,
the gall itself is not an insect but influence of irritation. When insects
damage trees, galls are appear mainly on leaves. They usually don’t kill plant
but weaken them. For example, early leaves drop is caused by galls.
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| Black Spot |
Bad things for plants are not only
bugs but also diseases. Tomato especially has risks of getting all kind of
diseases. As far as you care tomato with proper way, these diseases are rarely
deadly. But a lot of diseases exist in the garden. How correctly to distinguish
these ills is important though there are too much species of them to write here
down. Roses are beautiful and popular flowers. I’ll show some examples of rose
diseases here. “Black spot” is one kind of fungus. As its name implies, black
spots are appear on leaves. This can drop leaves. “Downy mildew” is very fatal
disease. It spreads so rapidly and defoliates rose leaves in days. Black spot
likes humid weather. Downy mildew prefers cold and wet climate to humid one.
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| Downy Mildew |
There is another bad thing for
plants, nutrient deficient. If some bad effect like discoloration is seen with
plant in spite of not having disease or insects on plant, it may be nutrient
deficient. It is caused by some bad condition of roots; soil is not suit for
the plant, little nutrition is in the soil or too much or little water is
served. So, the solution is easy. To make the best status of soil.
references
Mypedia (encyclopedia)
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