
Commercial Disease Controls
The Pennsylvania State University
Cooperative Extension
Parsley
Disease Control
Damping-Off
Apply the following as a soil surface spray immediately after seeding:
mefenoxam -- 1-2 pt Ridomil Gold 4E/A or 2-4 pt Ultra Flourish 2E/A
Bacterial and Fungal Leaf Spots
Do not plant parsley in the same field for at least 2 years, and space successive plantings during the same year as far apart as possible.
Bacterial Leaf Spots
Avoid working in the fields while the foliage is wet to reduce spread. Apply the following and repeat every 7 days.
copper, fixed 2.25 lb 53.8DF/A or OLF, or
Fungal Leaf Spots
Once leafspots are detected in the field, alternate the following every 7 days.
azoxystrobin (Quadris--6.2 - 15.4 oz 2.08F/A or Amistar--2-5 oz 80WDG/A), or
copper, fixed 2.25 lb 53.8DF/A or OLF
Note: Where trade names are used, no discrimination is intended
and no endorsement by the Cooperative Extension Service is implied.
Information provided is intended for consideration by the user, but is not
intended to be a recommendation. Production decisions should be based on
consideration of many types of information (scientific, experiential, economic,
legal, etc.) available to the user.
Prepared by Dr. Alan A. MacNab, Professor, Plant Pathology
Department of Plant Pathology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Publication last updated November 2005; first placed on server November 2005.
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