Fire Blight - What is it, How to Control & What Trees are Affected?

Talking Trees with Davey Tree · Jul 20, 2023 · 21m

Eric Countryman from Davey's East Pittsburgh office talks about fire blight and other bacterial diseases that can impact your trees.

In this episode we cover:

What is fire blight (1:06)

What fire blight looks like (1:39)

When fire blight is most prevalent (2:13)

Treating fire blight (2:55)

How to prevent fire blight (4:35)

How arborists handle fire blight (6:52)

Off the beaten path trees to plant (8:22)

Black knot disease (10:57)

Apple scab disease (13:02)

Using fertilizer to help tree health (15:51)

Eric's experience with tree diseases this season (17:21)

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