Apple or pear trees with fire blight should be trimmed 10-12 inches below the affected areas, when weather is dry, cleaning pruners between cuts. Control of scab and leaf spot should begin at bud ...

Kasugamycin and streptomycin have different modes of action but are both bactericidal, which means they kill bacteria.

Gardeners with apple or pear trees are being urged to check them this January for a potentially deadly disease. Alan Buckingham, author of Allotment Month By Month, advises in his book that ...

Fire blight infects ornamental fruit trees such as this callery pear, a popular landscape tree. Symptoms include cankers on branches, wilted shoots and blacked leaves, which give trees a “scorched” ...

Gardeners who have apple or pear trees are being urged to inspect them this January for a potentially lethal disease. Alan Buckingham, author of Allotment Month By Month, suggests in his book's ...