Healthy Gardening

By Dr. Sharon M. Douglas
Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

The best way to encourage and ensure a healthy garden for the future is to start by making all efforts to prevent problems from developing. This holds true whether you’re concerned about lawns, shrubs, trees, perennials, annuals, or vegetables. Disease prevention is a fundamental component of maintaining healthy plants and one of the most effective ways to minimize the occurrence and impact of all types of diseases in the landscape and garden.

In order to accomplish this, it is helpful to follow some basic steps at the start and during every growing season. (Read more in the hyperlink title above.)