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Fungicide and Disease Management
Fungicide and Disease Management
As the Technical Director at Mainscape, I receive a lot of questions this time of year about ornamental plants not looking good and it appears they have active fungus on the leaf material. Some of the damage is active fungus and some of the damage is caused from cold temperatures and/or fungus can be secondary to the cold temperatures on some ornamentals.
All too often the quick fix is a fungicide. A fungicide application should be viewed as a “band-aid” and not a curative procedure. Fungicide will protect the plant’s unaffected leaves until the environmental circumstances that predicated the disease change or are altered by Mainscape employees. Leaves that are already damaged will not be returned to health those cells are already beyond repair typically and will eventually fall from the plant.
At Mainscape, we use a systemic fungicide in our program. It is the most expensive option for us and it can act as a protectant for new leaf emergence as well as some curative properties to stop any new lesions on already affected leaves. It also provides us the longest residual and is generally recognized as the broadest spectrum fungicide controlling many different diseases.
How to Prepare for Snow Removal
How to Prepare for Snow Removal
As snow and landscape professionals, we are often times asked what we can do to prepare for snow removal. This is a great question and it boils down to just a few easy ideas.
- Protect the Turf
- Make sure that you get out in front of the snow and stake the area that is to be plowed with reflective markers. This is done to help the plow trucks understand the proper areas to plow. It also is a nice barrier so that the trucks do not accidentally plow the turf instead of the drive.
