Animals
These are just a few common animals that will probably use your garden as the buffest of dreams. Each animal requires different remedies to deal with. If you suspect tha animals are getting into your garden, research the animals and try a few solutions to the animal type. Remember, a good fence helps a lot. Where there's a garden, the animals will surely come.
Deer
Voles
Groundhog
Squirrels
Rabbits
Blight
Yellowing leaves
Blossom end rot
Powdery mildew
Common Plant diseases
There are several different types of diseases that can wreak havoc on your garden. These are a few that are most common when it comes to the veggie patch.
- Blight: Most blights are caused by bacterial or fungal infestations, which usually attack the shoots and other young, rapidly growing tissues of a plant.
- Blossom-end rot: is a physiological disease caused by a localized deficiency of calcium in the fruit. Calcium is a nutrient that is required in relatively large quantities by rapidly growing fruit, especially by those cells at the blossom end of the young fruit.
- Powdery Mildew: Common on many plants and easily recognized, powdery mildew is a fungal disease found throughout the United States. It is caused by a variety of closely related fungal species, each with a limited host range. Low soil moisture combined with high humidity levels at the plant surface favors this disease.
- Yellowing Leaves: A lack of essential nutrients, particularly nitrogen, iron, or magnesium, can cause garden plants to turn yellow. Among the reasons are overwatering, underwatering, stress caused by temperature changes, soil conditions, lack of proper nutrients, pests, disease, the age of the plant, pot-bound roots and transplant shock.
Insect Pests
Insects would prove to be worse than having an animal pest issue. Insects in the garden can become a devastating attack on the garden. Keep an eye on the garden and take note of the type of damage being done to the plamts and look for seeds and even the insect too! Some bugs like the hormworm are hard to spot and best fouind at night. If oyu nitive ants, there may be aphids! Seedlings being snipped in half could be cutworms.