{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Good Growing","title":"Ep. 22 Tree Diseases with Travis Cleveland","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2398,"description":"On this week's Good Growing podcast the team talks with Travis Cleveland about tree diseases. Travis is an Extension Specialist in the field of plant pathology and woody plant material. \n\nOn this episode the Good Growing team talks about:\nThe difficulty in plant disease diagnosis and the importance of good photos.\nWhat's happening with Virginia creeper with spots on the leaves?\nAn older silver maple is dropping leaves and it's spring. What's happening?\nWhy do all the sycamores have emptying branches with no leaves?\nA dogwood only leafed out in the upper canopy. Is it dead?\nWhat causes a Colorado blue spruce to lose needles from the bottom up?\n\nLinks to resources mentioned in the show:\nA Box folder with photos of some of the plants in question on today's episode https://go.illinois.edu/GoodGrowingPhotos \n\nHome Yard and Garden Newsletter - Maple leaf blister article http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/article.php?id=1068 \n\nSpruce problems https://web.extension.illinois.edu/plantclinic/downloads/Plant%20Clinic%20Report%20Spruce.pdf\n\nContact the hosts:\nChris Enroth cenroth@illinois.edu\nKen Johnson kjohnso@illinois.edu\nKatie Parker keparkr2@illinois.edu","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R8M4jy-2EktViSJpDBxEJL2IulcAlRJg8ktxlDJM3UA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNDE1LzE2ODk3/OTA0NTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}