Oat Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Avena sativa

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

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Guides

Pests and diseases (28)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Brown Leaf Spot

Disease

Small light brown to gray-brown spots form on the leaves and enlarge into irregular lesions. When they merge the whole leaf dies and plant vigor drops sharply.

Anthracnose

Disease

Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.

Root-knot Nematode

Pest

The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up and the roots carry beaded chains of galls of varying size with few fine roots.

Rice BlastHalo BlightBacterial Stripe BlightBlack-streaked DwarfZonate Leaf SpotCyst NematodeSpeckled Leaf BlotchRed LeafCrown RustNorthern Cereal MosaicCovered SmutBacterial Leaf StreakPlant-parasitic NematodesPink Snow MoldSheath BlightLeaf BlightLoose SmutBacterial Brown SpotBrown Snow RotFusarium Head BlightRed Leaf BlightYellow DwarfBlack RustAlternaria Black SpotBlack Blemish Disease

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.