Learn what's wrong with your crop and how to make it stop!
Respond to plant disease in your vegetable garden with a remote diagnosis and a fully custom action plan that applies Integrated Pest Management concepts to your unique growing space; A step-by-step roadmap with instructions on exactly how to deploy reliable, cheap, and chemical-free modifications to your garden and gardening for quick plant disease control and sustainable, long-term plant protection. Higher yield, better quality, and more fun are waiting for you in the garden. Fill out an Intake Form today!
Our Service
Garden Pathology uses photos and your answers to specific quesitons to provide useful plant disease diagnosic evaluations. Finding out what's wrong with your plants is the starting point for controling the problem, and it should be the starting point for lasting, low maintenance, and environmentally safe defense against future plant diseases. The practical, step-by-step plan is sent to your email and is designed for all gardeners who want detailed, personalized, and actionable answers from human experts without the need, or time, it takes to mail samples and wait for traditional lab results.
Remote Plant Diagnosis
Clear photos and a description of what you're seeing is often enough for an experienced diagnostician. With a turnaround time of usually two business days, you'll receive a diagnosis and a practical plan without collecting or mailing plant samples. It's easier for both you and the sick plant, too!
- Written diagnosis & care plan, sent by email
- Results usually within 2 business days
- Ideal for symptoms that show clearly in a photo, like leaf spots, stem canckers, or fuzzy, rotten roots
- Control accute plant disease issues and manage long-term plant protection for your whole garden
You tell us; we tell you
Clear answers for gardeners
Garden Pathology offers remote plant disease diagnosis and management support to residential, community, and other small-scale, non-commercial food-crop gardeners. We want you to grow healthier plants and a more productive garden, without unnecessary spending. Garden Pathology does not sell gardening products or recurring services — every recommendation is diagnosis-driven and research-backed, with our goal being sustainable benefits for you, not future sales for us.
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Please answer the questions below as specifically as you can. They are open-ended so you can be as detailed as you care to be. For help describing things, see the glossary and the plant anatomy guide. If anything is unclear, we will follow up by email for a more details, so keep an eye on your inbox.
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Glossary — common plant pathology terms
- Lesion
- A localized area of diseased tissue (e.g., a spot or blotch).
- Necrosis
- Tissue death, often brown or black and dry.
- Chlorosis
- Yellowing of leaves caused by loss or insufficient chlorophyll.
- Halo
- A lighter ring around a lesion, often indicating toxin or pathogen spread.
- Sporulation
- Visible production of spores (often a powdery, fuzzy, or dusty appearance).
- Canker
- A sunken, often discolored lesion on stems or branches.
- Blight
- Rapid, widespread death of plant tissue (e.g., whole leaves or shoots).
- Wilt
- Drooping caused by loss of turgor or disrupted water transport.
- Damping-off
- Seedling collapse and rot, commonly caused by soilborne pathogens.
- Systemic
- When a pathogen or symptom affects the whole plant rather than a single spot.
Plant anatomy — terms to help describe symptoms
- Leaf blade
- The broad, flat part of the leaf where most photosynthesis occurs.
- Petiole
- The stalk that connects the leaf blade to the stem.
- Node
- The point on the stem where leaves or branches attach.
- Internode
- The stem segment between two nodes.
- Crown
- The plant part at soil level where stem and roots meet.
- Root collar
- The upper root area nearest the crown; often where rot or girdling shows.
- Stem
- Main structural axis that supports leaves, flowers, and fruit.
- Flower / fruit
- Reproductive structures; note whether symptoms affect these separately from leaves.