What's growing on in your garden?

We have tried to list many common plant diseases found in the Alamance/Chatham county, NC areas to help you diagnose the diseases happening to your crops. You can enter some of the symptoms in the search field to quickly jump to various sections within our blog. We welcome any questions and/or comments concerning your symptoms and controls. Thank you for visiting the Disease Doctors! We wish your plants a speedy recovery!

Friday, April 13, 2012

SQUASH

Root-Knot Nematode - Root-knot nematodes produce specialized feeding structures in the roots of squash and other host plants, causing changes in the plant cell. These changes produce swelling around the nematode, causing galls or knots.  Above ground you may see yellowing, wilting, reduced yield, and premature death of plants. Common practices such as rotation and amending the soil will suppress root-knot nematodes.





Mosaic- Is sometimes seed born and is spread by striped cucumber beetles and aphids. Symptoms are green vein banding, and distortion of leaves of young seedlings. On mature plants, leaves show a dark green mosaic, blistering, and hardening. Weeds harbor mosaic so keep weeds and brush away from cucurbits. Corn keeps aphids away so planting around cucurbits will suppress mosaic carrying aphids.   Get rid of any infected plants immediately.

 

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