Learn out other common tree diseases (and what to do about them). How to Prevent Apple Scab Disease Melinda says, “Reduce potential future infections by doing fall cleanup of infected leaves.

Apple trees with cedar apple rust may affect fruit quality and overall tree health as the disease can cause repeated defoliation. For apples, products containing myclobutanil are also effective ...

A program or schedule of spraying will help you keep your apple trees healthy. November through February spray at least once with a dormant oil, March and April spray each month for scab and ...

The symptoms of the fungus on apple trees include the orange and red "spots," or lesions, that may be found on leaves, fruit or soft stem tissue. Spores are then produced from tiny cuplike ...

Pruning apple trees has many benefits. It can prevent damaged tree limbs from harming other branches and increase airflow ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Apple growers in the eastern U.S. have a despised enemy known as apple scab — a disease caused by a fungus that forms ugly brown or greenish-black pockmarks on the fruit ...

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 ...

Scab is a fungus that can infect crab apple trees as leaves emerge and expand. ... Treatment must begin when buds break, followed by two or three applications 14 days apart.

Q. I have a flowering crabapple tree that is losing leaves. All during the spring the tree flowered and was beautiful. Now, the leaves turn yellow then fall. I've watered and fed regularly with t ...

Larry Hall wasn’t surprised when he looked out the window of his Arlington Heights home and saw his once-proud stand of six flowering crab apple trees reduced to defoliated eyesores.“I had ...