Dealing with Diseases in Your Vegetable Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You have options while diagnosing your diseased plants. You can reach out to your local Master Gardeners group or you can consult Susan Mulvihill’s new book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook. Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is the author of the new book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook and The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. Susan has been a Master Gardener for over 20 years and is the Sunday garden columnist for The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Washington. She and her husband, Bill, garden in raised beds. Her mission has been to teach everyone how to grow their own food, to respect nature by avoiding the use of chemicals, and encourages everyone to plant a diverse landscape to attract a wide variety of beneficial insects. Facebook Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're talking plant disease, one of the more confusing and perhaps even frightening
0:17.7	aspects of the garden.
0:18.9	I can't tell you how many messages we get with maybe a little blurry photo, close-up
0:24.6	photo of a leaf.
0:25.7	What is this?
0:26.7	Is this safe?
0:27.7	Is this good?
0:28.7	We get it all the time, Susan.
0:29.7	I'm sure you get it as well.
0:30.7	Susan will be held back on the show, author of the new book, The Vegetable Garden Problem
0:34.6	Solver Handbook, which is out now.
0:37.3	I don't know about you, Susan, but to me pests are easier to help people with disorders,
0:42.3	like we've talked about, blossom, and rot, etc., easier to help people with.
0:45.8	Diseases always seem to be a bit of a challenge for people more so than the rest.
0:50.4	Boy, I couldn't agree with you more because I think they're very difficult to diagnose.
0:57.6	We've talked about the importance of monitoring your garden on a daily basis, and so let's
1:02.5	say you're out in the garden, and you notice a plant just doesn't look right.
1:08.8	Maybe the leaves are modeled, maybe something, some part of the plant is wilting, something
1:15.2	just doesn't look right, and so it's like, okay, what the heck is that, and what do I do
1:20.3	about it?
1:21.3	I always recommend the first thing is to do a little bit of troubleshooting.
1:26.9	And it helps to think, first of all, if anything out of the ordinary happened in the
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