Gardening Tips To Avoid Fungus During Summer
Most of us are ready to invest huge amount for
landscaping and gardening to give face lift for our home. But we
failed to prune when the plants needed it, and then your highly
invested landscape looks terrible than ever. So this is a high time
to know about the gardening tips for better maintenance of your
lawn. Do follow the following gardening tips for better life of your
garden: -
Gardening tips for pruning
As we discussed in the introduction, pruning plays an important role
in the garden maintenance. If you commit any mistake while pruning,
don’t lose your heart because it’s like a bad haircut, it is going
to grow again.
Avoid watering in the evening
During summer, you may experience high humidity, which might result
in lot of problems in your garden. To get your plants nice and dry,
tuck them in for night. In addition to this watering in the evening
may be avoided to prevent damage to the plants.
Get rid of Powdery mildew
Powdery mildew is the common fungus mostly affects your ornamental
plants. This will create white film on the leaves of the plants in
your garden. Even other ornamental plants such as Sand cherry and
Dogwoods are also getting affected with this fungus. Efficient
gardening is necessary to curtail the growth of this fungus. You can
easily prevent this by spraying general fungicide in the garden
centre.
Prevention of Pythium Blight
If you’re in the north and also having perennial Rye grass, then you
ought to be very careful not to leave your grass wet at night. A
dreadful fungus called Pythium Blight may take its upper hand, if
you leave your lawn wet in the night because this fungus love to
grow in high humid condition mostly, in the night.
Pythium blight can easily be seen in the early morning. You can
easily appreciate the fungus on the top of the lawn as white cotton
candy. You can easily notice this fungus mainly along driveways and
walks, where the soil is moist. Pythium blight can easily be
controlled by watering in the day at the earliest possible time.
Fire Blight
Fire Blight, yet another culprit prefers to grow well during summer
than any other season. This fungus prefers to attack Pyracantha,
cotoneasters, crabapple trees, and Apple trees. The presence of Fire
Blight can easily be visualized once the any one of the branches of
the plant turns red and dies. This Fire Blight can be prevented
little by pruning the affected branch and removing it from the main
plant as far as possible.
It is also important that the cut branches should be burnt since
Fire Blight is contagious and also wash or dip the projected shears
by using alcohol in order to prevent the spread of the deadly fungus
to other parts of the branch.
Shotgun fungus
A little gem like fungus, which prefers to grow in mulch and tends
to swell, has been termed as “Short gun Fungus”. This fungus can fly
up to 8 feet in the air and will spatter your house with tiny brown
specks and once they stick to your house or windows, they stick like
glue. Most of us suspect the spiders and aliens for this tiny brown
speck. You can’t prevent this fungus, but can do something by
keeping the mulch loose so air can circulate inside to keep this
fungus out. Although mulch is great, don’t allow them to get packed,
try to remove it at least once in a year and also rake it flat as if
it will look like you’ve just mulched.
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