Getting Rid of Smut; the Garden Variety

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I received the following question this week from Richard inquiring into ways to control and eliminate smut on his sweet corn: “About half of my sweet corn patch is heavily infected with smut. I have been reading about solarizing to kill weeds. Would it work against smut?”

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