How should diseased plants be disposed of?
Diseased plants should be placed in trash bags and disposed of with the household’s regular refuse or alternately, be buried. Diseased plants should not be used as composting material. *Contact fungicides remain on the surface of the plant tissue where they are deposited whereas translaminar fungicides can move in and through a leaf. A very few fungicides are systemic and can move in the plant to stems and new growth. In contrast, most human drugs are put inside the body and are able to move to where they are needed and they have a curative effect. Plant medicine is very different from human medicine.
