Pests and Diseases

One of the more common diseases in plants that we had to and continue to battle at the farm is most commonly referred to as rust. Rust is a fungal infection that spreads on a plants leaves. It is named rust due to it's brownish coloration. The way to best remove rust from a plant is to remove the leaves infected with rust, or tear off parts of leaves that have the rust on them(that is to say if the leave isn't completely taken yet). We had a bunch of little green bugs with wings that would hang around the tomatoes, so to battle that we planted good bug blooms which are apparently beneficial to good bugs. These bugs are "good" because they eat the bugs that would otherwise be eating our crops.