What is sick gooseberry and how to cure it

Gooseberry is sufficiently resistant to diseases and pests. But he is faced with dangerous diseases. Gooseberry disease can be cured with proper care, prevention and timely control.

Mealy dew: how to deal with fungal disease

Very often, this fungal disease appears on the gooseberry in the form of white bloom, which covers the berries of the shrub. If you see this on your plant - this is American powdery mildew, which you need to take control measures as soon as possible.

If you do not fight this disease - the entire crop may die, and even the gooseberry bush itself. As soon as you notice the first symptoms of powdery mildew, begin to act:

• Spray gooseberry with a solution of soda ash and laundry soap (5 g soda / 50 g soap / 10 l water);
• destroy diseased berries and shoots.

If you have seen powdery mildew before budding, spray the plant with fungicides. To successfully combat disease and prevention, you need to know how you can treat gooseberries in the spring from powdery mildew:

• copper sulphate solution;
• soda ash;
• onion peel (200 g per 10 l of boiling water, spray with cooled decoction);
• tansy (30 g per 10 liters of boiling water, insist and spray the bushes).

To combat the disease, treat the bushes and the soil around. Nitrofen (You can use a 3% solution of ferrous sulfate, or a 1% solution of copper sulfate). New drugs help in the fight against fungal disease: Fundazol, Topaz, and Chorus Do not forget about prevention - Dig the soil around the gooseberry in spring and autumn.

How to cure gooseberry from anthracnose

Anthracnose affects gooseberry leaves and provokes their fall. Signs characteristic of it are the appearance of dark brown spots, a dry brown crust, falling foliage and stunted shrubs. Methods of struggle:

• Be sure to burn all the fallen leaves on the site - they overwinter anthracnose.
• At the initial stage of the disease, it is necessary to treat the leaves with a solution of copper sulfate (40 g of vitriol per 10 liters of water).
• If the disease has spread to the entire shrub, you need to treat it four times with Bordeaux-like fluid (before flowering, after flowering, and again - 14 days after picking berries).

If all the measures are taken in time, the anthracnose will retreat and the gooseberry will develop normally.

Methods of dealing with the goblet rust

Bellied rust is a leaf disease that progresses from late May to early June. Its sign is the appearance of yellow spots on the surface of the sheet. Gradually the spots take the form of goblets, and the leaves are deformed and fall off. If the disease is not treated, the entire crop may die, as the growth of the shrub stops.

Triple treatment with a 1% solution of Bordeaux mixture or other fungicides will help to cope with the disease. Processing should be carried out with the appearance of leaves, with the appearance of buds and the last time - after flowering.

Symptoms and treatment of columnar rust

Columnar rust appears small yellow spots on the upper side of the sheet and orange-yellow growths on the bottom. This disease usually appears in mid-summer.

To prevent disease, do not forget to clean up the fallen leaves on the site, in a timely manner to loosen the soil (up to 5 cm in depth). If columnar rust still appeared - Spray the shrub bordeaux liquid 3-4 times.

Gooseberry treatment for septoria

Gooseberry septoria is manifested on the leaves as gray spots with a brown border. This disease provokes the fall of the foliage and can cause the fruit to be lost on the gooseberry. The disease takes all the power from the bush, and it simply does not have the opportunity to bear fruit. For treatment, treat the shrub and soil around with fungicides and remove all affected leaves and shoots.

What threatens and how to get rid of the mosaic on the gooseberry

If you notice that there are no fruits on the gooseberry, the leaves wither and are covered with bright stripes, and the bush has stopped growing - this viral disease mosaic. If not treated. then the gooseberry will die, but it can infect healthy plants. The mosaic is carried by aphids or infected garden tools.

Since this is a viral disease, it is very difficult to fight. The only way - completely remove the affected shoots. If the whole bush was struck, it must be uprooted and burned. To prevent disease, spray the plants growing nearby with insecticides.

How to cure gooseberry from gray rot

Gray bloom on gooseberry indicates damage to its gray rot. Although this disease is not typical for gooseberries, it can become infected with it from other plants in the area (grapes, strawberries, tomatoes and cucumbers). It affects the stems and berries.

To combat gray mold, treat lesion sites with water or spray them with special preparations: XHorus, Strobe, Falcon, Zircon. Berries infected with rot, must be destroyed.

It should be noted that the fight against gooseberry disease will be effective if you carry out mandatory prevention. It is necessary to follow the agrotechnical rules that will help to cope with diseases and preserve the harvest. Be sure to remove the fallen leaves on the site - it can multiply fungal diseases. Loosen the soil under the plants. To destroy the spores of fungi at least once in the spring process the gooseberry with boiling water. If you take care of the plants in your plot, they will thank you for an excellent harvest.