Whether you’re a novice or avid gardener, discovering your greenery is dealing with a disease is never a pleasant surprise. One frequent problem that often pops up during the warmer months: powdery ...

As sure as there will be the usual enjoyable elements of summer – cook outs, vacations, swimming and sunshine – there are parts of summer for the home gardener that are not enjoyable. Just about every ...

Lots of plants, both edible and ornamental, can get powdery mildew. Unlike many other fungal plant diseases, the fungi that cause powdery mildew thrive in hot, dry weather that's often the norm in mid ...

Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. Powdery mildew is a widespread and easy to recognize ...

IF YOU’VE EVER observed grayish-white powdery spots on leaves, shoots and sometimes on flowers and fruit in your garden, you’ve probably seen evidence of powdery mildew fungi. Powdery mildews are more ...

News Leader reader Carol F. recently inquired about powdery mildew in her new garden. “This is my first year gardening in the Valley as I had lived in Idaho until last June. I had good topsoil hauled ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. May ...