Have you been having problems in your garden this year? We certainly have! On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we discuss some of the most common problems we’ve been seeing in gardens so far this year, including problems with coneflowers, oak wilt, fire blight, and blossom end rot. Plus, where have all the Japanese beetles gone?

Skip to what you want to know:
00:40 – Welcome, Ken! Garden updates and purple tomatoes!
07:40 – Coneflower rosette mite damage vs aster yellows
13:50 – Oak wilt
15:20 – Identifying red oak group and white oak group
18:00 – Oak wilt symptoms
19:55 – Submitting samples
22:05 – Spread by root grafts
25:05 – Fungicide treatment?
27:35 – Fire blight in ornamental pear
33:05 – Blossom end rot in tomatoes
36:58 – Where are all the Japanese beetles?
40:08 – Wrapup, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!


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Pictures:
Red oak leaf: Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History, Public Domain
White oak leaf: Wayne National Forest, Public Domain
Oak wilt pictures: Joseph O’Brien, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
All others: Ken Johnson, University of Illinois Extension


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