Home Gardeners

Workshops & Trainings

Sick Plants offers workshops and trainings on many garden and plant health related topics. We’ve taught and presented to Master Gardeners, homeowners associations, land trusts, garden clubs, and many more.

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    • Plant Health Diagnostics 101

    • Integrated Pest Management

    • Vegetable Diseases 101

    • Fruit Diseases 101

    • Ornamental Diseases 101

    • Take the Good with the Bad: Intro to Insect Management

    • What to Expect when you’re Expecting: Greenhouse Disease Prevention for Healthy Transplants

    • Season End: Best Practices

  • Did you or members of your organization struggle with a specific plant disease last year, and you want make sure you know exactly how to detect it, manage it, and prevent it?

    We offer custom trainings tailored to your specific needs.

Site Visits

We offer site visits to diagnose plant diseases and insect problems on site, and coordinate with diagnostic labs when necessary. This service is especially helpful for diversified growers who have complex growing systems, multiple crops and varieties with issues, and want to receive answers as soon as possible.

Sick plants will provide in depth consultation, offer diagnostic coordination with local diagnostic labs if needed, and provide follow-up written documentation (pest management reports or similar) that include management recommendations to address and improve the problem.

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Video Consultations

Don’t have time for a site visit, but want to discuss your plant health concerns? Schedule a video consultation.

How It Works

  • Sessions are offered in 30- and 60-minute increments to discuss your plant questions. 30-minute calls can accommodate questions on 1-3 plants, and 60-minute calls can accommodate 3-5 plants.

    Upon purchase, you will be sent a scheduling link to select a date and time that works for you. Calls will take place over Google Meet.

  • To help streamline the video consultation, you’ll complete a questionnaire that will ask for more details about your plant problems.

  • Make sure to take the call from a location that is close to your plant so we can visually see the symptoms, habitat setup, lighting conditions, etc.

  • You’ll receive a summary of our call, which will include diagnosis (if applicable) and specific management recommendations.

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Book a Video Consultation

30-Minute Consultation
$65.00

A 30-minute video consultation to discuss plant health problems and management strategies remotely. Select the 30-minute call to discuss 1-3 plants.

60-Minute Consultation
$120.00

A 60-minute video consultation to discuss plant health problems and management strategies remotely. Select the 60-minute call to discuss 3-5 plants.