Powdery Mildew

Powdery Mildew

Spring rains brings on powder mildew. Now is the time to prevent and control powdery mildew before is takes over your garden.


The new leaves, twigs, and flower buds are covered with a thin layer of grayish white powdery material. In extreme cases leaves can be curled and turn yellow or purple and drop off. New growth can be stunted and young canes can die. Badly infected flower buds will not open correctly.

This common plant disease is caused by a fungus (Sphaerotheca pannosa var. rosae). It is one of the most widespread and serious diseases of roses. The powdery covering consists of fungal strands and spores. The spores are spread by the wind to healthy plants. The fungus saps the plant nutrients, causing distortion, discoloring, and sometimes death of leaves and canes. Powdery mildew may occur on roses anytime during the growing season when rainfall is high or absent, temperatures are mild, nighttime relative humidity is high, and daytime humidity is low. Rose varieties differ in their susceptibility to powdery mildew.

An organic solution is Green Light Rose Defense
Rose Defense is three organic products in one: an insecticide, a fungicide and a miticide. It is a botanical product made from neem oil.

Prevent and control:
blackspots powdery mildew rust many more diseases
aphids scale whiteflies many more insects & mites
Where to use it:
flowers ornamentals trees shrubs

An inorganic solution is Bayer Advanced Garden Disease Control for Roses, Flowers & Shrubs
3-In-1 Insect, Disease & Mite Control
Triple protection for flowering plants, trees and shrubs

1. Kills and controls insects
2. Cures and prevents fungal disease
3. Controls Spider Mites

Protects up to two times longer against twice as many pests versus other brands
Systemic rainproof protection lasts up to 30 days

Happy Memorial Day

Camino Garden Center would like to say thank-you all our brave troops both past and present.

Dr. Earth Super Natural Lawn Fertilizer

Dr. Earth Super Natural Lawn Fertilizer


A superior homogenous blend of fish meal, fish bone
meal, feather meal, potassium sulfate, alfalfa meal,
calcium sulphate, seaweed extract, micorrhizae and
beneficial soil microbes.

This is a wonderful fertilizer. Dr. Earth promotes a hardy
root system thereby adding life to your lawn. It also
controls thatch build up. Best of all, it contains
Mychorriza which grows in your soil; greatly enhancing
the quality of environment for the soil that your lawn
grows in.

Benefits:

Controls thatch build up by digesting thatch (the organic debris layer produced by grass roots, stolons, and blades). This layer is located between the vegetative layer and the soil layer.

Adds life to lawns by providing a broad spectrum of beneficial soil microbes plus three micorrhizae strains. This ensures nutrients are made available to the grass roots more effectively and at a steady rate, even under stressful conditions (such as drought, low nutrient availability, poor soil structure, etc.)


Promotes a hardy root system in two ways. First, it stimulates roots to grow deeper in the soil to absort the organic nutrients made available by Super Natural. Second, micorrhizae develop a symbiotic relationship with the grass roots causing the root system to expand tremendously. With an expanded root system, more nutrients and moisture are available.

Fast results, plus continuous feeding for upto three months.
100% natural and organic.
People and pet safe.

Use to Feed:
Newly seeded lawns. Newly laid sod lawns. Cool season grasses Warm season grasses.
St. Augustine Fescue Blue grass

Don't forget Mother's Day

Don't forget Mother's Day this Sunday May 9th.  Light up your Mom's eyes with a garden this year.  Plant her flowers that will grow year after year.  We have a large selection of mountain hardy deer resistant flowers. 

If you have any questions please call us at 530-647-0910 or email us at stevenlauder@hotmail.com.