A highly contagious disease that can wipe out an apple orchard threatens Connecticut’s fruit crop.. But there’s help on the way. Fire blight, a bacteria that gets into the apple tree as it is ...

Fire blight is a serious disease that is highly contagious for many apples. It’s more damaging to some apples like Pink Lady than others such as Gala. It’s particularly damaging to all Asian ...

Apples, pears, crabapples and even some ornamentals are infected by fire blight, a destructive bacterial disease. Fire blight damage is noticeable when infected leaves suddenly turn brown, as if ...

This is a bacterial disease that affects quince, Asian and European pears, and apples. The first sign of fireblight appears in branch tips, which dry out and turn black as if they had been burned ...

In 2022, the orchard was replanted with these young, disease-free trees. There are apple varieties such as ‘Liberty’ that have demonstrated some resistance to this disease, and if your goal is simply ...

Apples, pears, crabapples and even some ornamentals are infected by fire blight, a destructive bacterial disease. Fire blight damage is noticeable when infected leaves suddenly turn brown, as if ...

Joellen Dimond discusses fall garden tips, and Mr. D. talks about apple tree diseases. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen ...

Apples are susceptible to a whole bucket of diseases like powdery mildew, apple scab and anthracnose. Reputable nurseries should be able to give advice on varieties that are resistant to scab or ...