Fungus Diseases - By Mark Govan, Host “Florida Gardening” | ABC Pest Control Inc.

While growing up in Michigan, the only fungus we had to worry about came from locker room floors. What a change Floridabrings when you talk about fungus here you have to be specific. Is the fungus on your lawn, your fruit tree leaves, the fruit, the bark, on your vegetables, or in the soil? So many differing fungi exist and the fact they can rapidly kill our plants we must know haw to identify and control them. Now if all fungi looked the same we could easily identify them and then control would be easy. Unfortunately, most of the fungi looks different especially in the ways they try to kill our plants. In this article I am going to try to explain what a fungus is and how to identify the different varieties. I will also give you a few control methods to help your plants and turf to remain fungus free.