If I get different pests and diseases in my fruits and berries, this would be very bad because they will do damage to my fruit plants and their ability to yield healthy crops. Pests will suck the sap out of my plants and then leaves diseases that will cause extensive loss of healthy crops. When I am going to a nursery, or garden center I always look over their plants, even the varieties of plants that I am not considering like vegetables or flowers plants. Plants need to be at least a year old and be about 1 inch in diameter. I look at their leaves and root ball and if their leaves are full and well cared, then I will be bringing these plants home for my garden. But if I see any symptoms such as leaves are discolored or the trunk that has blemishes, I will be leaving them there at the store.
When you are still looking for plants, look the plants closely, at the shops, its buds, and their leaves and if it seems happy and healthy, that is good. If I see any discolorations and dryness, I know the plants are not in any good condition, so I do not want to bring these unhealthy plants home to plant in my garden or containers.
Here is a list of symptoms and what the problems that comes with this problem.
If there is yellowing leaves on a plant, it is possibly diseased or pest- infested, or has deficiency of nutrient. Wilted leaves is caused by being stressed by too little water or by being neglected. Plants that has chewed leaves, sticky residues, spots, webs, mushy foliage, and distorted leaf or crown, is called by other insect pest or disease. Scars in branches of woody plants is caused by branches or thestems damaged, which could lead to diseases. Spindly growth that are found on plants is causes by poor light conditions, it has outgrown the pot that it is growing and the plant has not been pruned or pinched properly. Poor color of the plant is causes by the plant being in distress. If the plant does not have a lot of roots, this is caused because the plant is very weak and it made not survive replanting it. If I see roots growing out of the bottom of the pot, this is not good because the plants have been neglect. If the plants have a lot of weeds with them in the pot, it is cause by nutrient defffficiency. If the soil is dry, this means the plant is lifeless and probably will not survive a transplant.
There are a lot of different pests that could really wreak havoc on my garden by causing great damage to my plants, and this will cause a big loss of my fruit crops. These are not the ones that I want in my garden that benefit my soil by breaking down organic materials that feeds my plants good nutrients.
There are many different small insects that are real bad for my garden, but it is good to see one of these crawling on my fruit plants, because it is the natural enemy of the pests that would damaged my fruit plants and the beneficent bug is a ladybug. The ladybug is a member of the beetle family. Some ladybugs do feed on the plant leaves, but most of them feed on the bugs and diseases that would attack my fruit plants, which would be fungi, white flies, aphids, mealybugs, and armored scale insects that attack coconut trees. There are two more bugs that I want to have as allies in my garden and they are ground beetle and the praying mantis. The ground bettle is dark brown or black and it runs fast. It"s shell is striped with lengthwise identations. They eat various types of caterpillars which can be helpful. The praying mantis feeds on aphids which would be good for my garden.
Pests comes in many different sizes and shapes, and some of them will go to certain fruits or berries. The pests will do different things to different parts of the plants, sometimes it will be the fruit. For each pest that I find in my garden, there has to be a way to show them out of my garden.Now I would like to talk about different pests and suggestions for natural, organic means that can destory or repel each type. One of the pests is aphids. These bugs will attack most types of fruit plants and they do thiiis by sucking the sap out of their leaves and buds. They also give plant viruses and the signs that they are present are curling leaves, stunted growth, red discolorations, and a black curly mold. Some examples of aphids are blackflies, greenflies, and wooly aphids. Wooly aphids will suck sap from the bark and shoots of apple trees.
These are ways that will discourage the return of any aphid infestations in my garden. One of the ways that I can do this is to work the soil real good with a rake and tiller between my fruit plantings. Plant sunflowers and milkweeds between all of my fruit plants. I always like to plant flowers that repel aphids where my plants are at. Some of these plants are chives, garlic, petunias and nasturtrums. By me, planting a herb garden that has some of these crops in it may be a natural solutions to having problems with aphids in my fruit plants.
Beetles is another pests that I have been watching out for them in my fruit garden. There are several different types of beetles that I may find in my fruit plants. Raspberry beetle larvae leaves damage on the ripening fruits of blackberry, raspberry, loganberry, and other berry plants that has soft berries. They look like maggots and they are small, white, and numerous. Pear Midge attacks the undeveloped, small pear fruit, they cause the fruit to blacken and fall off in June. Strawberry Seed Beetles is one that feeds on the seeds of strawberries from the outside of the strawberry. The other type of beetle that I like to talk about is known as Vine Weevil grubs which is the young will feed on grapes and strawberries, and this sometimes will destroy the plants. The adults will eat notches out of leaves at night, but they do not cause as much damage as the young ones.
Now I will like to tell how to keep these beetles away.
First, I will sprinkle my plants with water and then I will dust them with wheat bran. Another way, I will make a tea of boiled basil or cedar boughs and then I spray this tea onto my plants. I make a solution of two tablespoons of epsom salts in a gallon of water and I can spray this on my fruit plants. I can have these plants in my herb garden, which are rosemary, garlic, catnip, onion, rue, tansy and radish. I also like to have some nasturtruims, marigolds, and geraniums planted real close to my fruits and berries.
Borers are one that they make holes in the trunks of the trees, which weaken the trees and this will causes the trees to stop producing fruit. They like the wood of these trees which are, apples, peach, plum, and cherry trees. The damage that they leave behind blackened areas around the area that they attack on the trees. The bark of my trees will be worn down or absent over a large area of the trunk of the trees. The way to repell borers is to inhibiting the laying of eggs is the way to stop a borer infestation in my fruit trees. The best way to do this, is to cover each of my fruit trees with several layers of burlay and this will keep them from being able to lay their eggs, which will mean the covering suffocates them.
Caspid bugs will attack the currants, apples, and gooseberries by sucking all the sap from shoot, leaves, tips, and the fruit. The leaves at the shoot tips will develop tattered holes. Apples will have discoloration or bumps on their skins. There are several different natural means to repell the caspias from my plants. I need to keep my garden, rake regularly so I can unearth the insects and their larvae. In my garden, I need to be able to keep the birds coming back, because birds like to eat these caspids. I love to grow the manly different types of mints, because of the many different uses that can be done with mint and I have another one, and it is that mint will keep a multitude of pests of different sizes away from my berries and fruits. Caterpillars will feed on all of my fruit plants in the spring. They will tatter the edges of buds, leaves, and the flowers blossoms. Apple Sawfly caterpillars will crawl through the apple on June and cause the apple to drop off in June instead of autumn which is when they are suppose to do this. Gooseberry Sawfly is up to one inch in length, it is green with black dots and they eat the leaves of the gooseberry and the red currant bushes. By planting mint, garlic, rosemary, sage, thyme, onion, tomato, celery, tansy, and hyssop is a way to repell these caterpillars. I also would like to have some marigolds and geraniums planted close to my plants, because they are toxic to most pests. Curculios are small insects that will pierce a hole in the fruit and lay larvae in it and make the fruit fall off of the tree. Grubs are caterpillars that are immature that attacks the young, underdeveloped fruits and causes the fruit to fall off of the tree.to early. A way to repel grubs from your plants is to spray them a solution of 3 tablespoons of laundry or dish soap to a gallon of water. Another way is to make an extract from garlic, hot pepper, pine, mint and poplar and spray this extract on my plant leaves. I will make sure
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