Early Blight Target Crops: Potatoes & Tomatoes. Damage Tomatoes can tolerate losing some of their low leaves to early blight, but if persistent rain causes the disease to move more than halfway up the plants, they may be doomed. Most of the time early blight weakens plants but does not

Onion Purple Blotch Target Crops: Onions. Damage Spots on the leaves are at first small with white centres, but expand rapidly into oval, brown to purple blotches.  If the blotches grow around the leaves, or merge, the parts above the blotch wilt, collapse and die. Prevention Rotate out of onions

Anthracnose Target Crops: Watermelons, Cucumbers & Mangoes. Damage Badly affected leaves turn brown and drop off. If wet weather persists, melon and cucumber fruits develop soft dark spots that become sunken rot spots. Prevention Proper spacing, so sunlight reaches all the leaves and air circulates freely. Avoid low places with

Powdery Mildew Target Crops: Flowers, Beans & Carrots. Damage Powdery mildew fungi clog up leaf pores and block light to photosynthetic cells, so the plants are weakened in their ability to use light as an energy source. New growth stops, old leaves fall off, and the plants struggle to stay