Garden pests

One of the biggest concerns for gardeners is to protect fruit trees, grapes, vegetables and ornamentals from a wide variety of pests and diseases. Our plants are chewed by insects, sucked by mites, contaminated with their feces, and with their saliva they cause abnormal cell proliferation. Fungi, bacteria, and viruses cause discoloring, drying spots on the leaves, fruits, and cancerous wounds on the woody parts. Disease is caused by a lack of any of the vital nutrients and is also damaged by weather elements (hail). The 88 color pages show the most common adverse lesions in the garden, from early spring to late fall. The injuries and diseases follow each other in the order in which they occur.