Disease-Resistant Dogwoods
The flowering dogwood tree is plagued with a number of diseases. Here's how to increase your chances of raising a healthy tree.
By Marie Hofer
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Disease-resistant Strawberries
Choose disease-resistant varieties adapted to your region. Here's a list of the best June bearing strawberries.
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Disease-resistant cultivars: 'Enterprise,' 'Freedom' and 'Liberty' claim to need no spraying.
Eating-fresh cultivars: 'Honeycrisp', 'Jonamac', 'McIntosh' and 'Mutsu' (or 'Crispin') can be relied on for delicious flavor straight from the tree.
Plant disease-resistant varieties. Some roses are very susceptible to these fungal diseases, others are virtually immune, and many fall somewhere between. So the first line of defense is to select only disease-resistant varieties.
Choose disease-resistant varieties. Many ornamental plants and vegetables have proven resistance to diseases such as canker, mildew, and rust.
Don't overcrowd your plants.
Use disease-resistant varieties
Selecting plants with genetic disease resistance is the best way to prevent disease.
Select disease-resistant varieties and plant crops that are suited to the soil and climate. If you do plant vegetables or fruits that are not normally grown in your area, do your best to provide necessary conditions.
Choose disease-resistant roses whenever possible, especially if you live in a hot, humid climate. Remember that disease-resistant does not mean disease-free, just that there is less chance of it becoming infected.
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Selection of disease-resistant, hardy varieties is critical to success in regions where fireblight is common. A U.S. Department of Agriculture study to determine the most disease-resistant varieties identified P.
The diminutive, disease-resistant Sargent's crab (M. sargentii, Zone 5) grows a mere two metres high and will eventually spread to three metres, making it a good choice for a small garden.
Choosing pest- and disease-resistant varieties and matching perennial species to the site -- sunlight, soil, hardiness zone etc. -- will help reduce plant health problems. Also: ...
The rugosas that he uses are characteristically tough, disease-resistant and thorny, although he has managed to minimise the thorns on his Rosa 'Howard Florey'x Rosa rugosa 'Rugelda'.
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Breeding programs to develop high quality disease-resistant apple cultivars are underway at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, and cooperatively among Purdue University, Rutgers University, and the University of Illinois.
There are many various strains and hybrids of roses but until you become more experienced, pick rose bushes that are hardy and disease-resistant.
Grow the disease-resistant long, slender cucumbers for salads. Plant both leaf lettuce and head lettuce for a season-long crop. Plant onions from seed in mid-March using long-day yellow or red varieties.
The obvious place to start when shopping for a disease-resistant rose is with heirloom, or old roses. "There's been a resurgence in the idea of the romance in growing 'roses of yesteryear' so now they're very available," Everett says.
Asiatic jasmine is an attractive, pest- and disease-resistant groundcover with shiny, oval leaves of crisp green. Its small, star-shaped flowers have a pleasant scent that is sweet, but not as strong as star or Confederate jasmine.
Disease control is easiest to achieve by planting disease-resistant varieties. Olympian, for example, is resistant to almost all major diseases of cucumber plants, including powdery mildew and cucumber mosaic virus.
Obtain shoots or suckers of disease-resistant varieties. Success from planting from seed is unpredictable and takes a long time (about one year between sowing and harvesting).
Looking for easy-to-grow plants that are hardy and disease-resistant? How about ones with lots of long-blooming, butterfly-attracting flowers? If all these features sound good to you, check out coreopsis.
Growing Advice: Select disease-resistant cultivars with small, persistent fruit.
This classic upright, disease-resistant, hybrid tea grows to 4-5 feet by 3 feet. Love & Peace is perfect for framing a formal rose garden or creating a striking feature within a landscape. Bring a cut flower in indoors to sweeten any room.
The new varieties of Kentucky bluegrass, unlike the old standards, are quite disease-resistant, keep their fine-textured looks without a lot of feeding, and have some drought tolerance.
When studying plant catalogs, look for pest- and disease-resistant plants, such as mildew-resistant phlox, Fusarium-resistant tomatoes and disease-resistant crabapples that will make my gardening job easier and keep my plants healthier.
'Greenfinch' - excellent disease-resistant variety that forms quite compact bushes. Early yields of bright green fruits and is excellent for cooking
'Whinham's Industry' - popular red-fruited variety, happy in partial shade.
So far the plants are living up to their reputation as a pest and disease-resistant species - while some of the other curcubits are starting to show signs of powdery mildew the Mexican Sour Gherkins are entirely blemish and pest free.
Replace Problem Plants with Pest- or Disease-Resistant ones
If a plant or tree has a chronic or recurring insect pest or disease problem, it's time to remove it and replace it with a more tolerant variety or another type of plant.
In countries where citrus canker is an established, ongoing problem, control of the disease is primarily achieved through a combination of tactics, including the production and use of disease-resistant plant varieties, use of protective sprays, ...
Or consider growing a disease-resistant aster, such as the shade-tolerant white wood aster (A. diraricatus), which has starry white flowers and is happy under larger shrubs or in the dry shade of trees. Another disease fighter is A.
...ose-of-sharon that are just too big for my little garden ('Knockout' roses only get about 3-4 feet, according to what I read.) My book states that it is very disease-resistant and low-maintenance, but I. More
Tropicana rose ...
Selection. When choosing roses, select varieties that are adapted to your growing region. If specific diseases such as black spot are known to be a problem in your region, choose disease-resistant varieties.
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