AS SPRING SLOWLY gives way to the approaching summer season (today is the beginning of late-late spring), most plants in your yard are growing rapidly. Accompanying this rapid plant growth is an accelerated development of diseases and insects.

Not only do your fast-growing plants provide excellent habitat and greatly increased food supply, but temperatures are on the rise, and that provides improved breeding conditions.

You only have to walk around the yard and closely examine the flora to see the evidence: Glistening slime trails weed between your half-eaten vegetables. Black spot, rust, powdery mildews infect your roses and geraniums.

All your plants begin to show chewed-out leaves as tent caterpillars leave their home bases and strike out on their own.

Root weevils and certain nema

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