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Summer Tree Diseases to Watch for

Chelsi Abbott, technical advisor for the Davey Institute, talks about common tree disease, how you can spot them and what can be done to treat them.

In this episode we cover:

Fire blight (0:33)

Vascular welt diseases (2:27)

Apple scab (4:28)

Anthracnose (5:58)

Tar spot (7:30)

Breeding diseases out (9:35)

How far spores can spread (10:25)

Dutch elm disease (11:42)

How Chelsi came to study plant pathology (12:48)

Beech leaf disease (14:25)

Trees Chelsi suggests planting in the future (14:57)

What Chelsi enjoys about her job (18:13)

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