Staff writer, Pest & Disease

Lucia Fernandez

Lucia spent years helping run a community garden plot where diagnosing a sick plant before it took down three neighbors' beds was a weekly job. She now writes the forum's pest and disease guides, working through the same step-by-step process she used in that garden: rule out watering and nutrients before assuming the worst. She keeps a phone folder of real diagnostic photos submitted by forum members, with their resolutions, for exactly this kind of writing.

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