FACTSHEET: Managing foliar and fruit diseases in strawberries

This fact sheet summarises the information you’ll need to get started on the sustainable management of some foliar and fruit disease threats to your crops. Many growers have implemented this Integrated Crop Protection (ICP) approach and achieved success in the management of these pests by using cultural control strategies that consider weather, irrigation timing, plant varieties and spacing and the use of biological control products. The most common foliar and fruit diseases of strawberry are fungi.