17 Common Diseases of Leafy Vegetables: Photos, Prevention, and Treatment

Posted on Mar 21 2018 - 9:24am by UOG

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“Diseases of leafy vegetables can cause devastating effects to your crop. They can completely kill your crop or significantly reduce its quality, which means that you can incur great losses if one of the diseases strikes your garden.

Just in case you didn’t know, leafy vegetables refer to crops such as: collard green, kale, cabbage, spinach, broccoli, rape, cauliflower, lettuce, celery and turnip, among others. They belong to the family- Cruciferae.

There are several diseases that attack leafy vegetables, and they are majorly caused by fungi, bacteria or viruses. If you grow greens or planning to grow them, here are the common diseases of leaf vegetables, their causes, prevention, control and treatment. See clear vegetable disease photos in order to exactly diagnose the problem with your crop!”

See all 17 Diseases at: DenGarden.com

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  1. Susmita Khan April 17, 2018 at 9:51 pm -

    I love gardening and vegetable both. This post very much effective and helpful to save the vegetable plants from diseases.Thanks for sharing.

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