As we begin October, we are about half way through our fall root feeding treatment for the Ash. We are running into a lot of Ash Anthracnose - a leaf disease causing brown leaves and premature leaf drop. This is also being widely mistaken for EAB decline. The trees will leaf back out next year, however, they will be somewhat stressed first thing next spring when it is time to re-leaf. The rich fertilizers we are using will certainly help in this process.  Severe cases, as pictured here, will need an injection of fungicide next spring along with the usual insecticide injections that we use for treating EAB. The Ash trees don't need anymore stress at this point. It pretty much sucks to be an Ash tree these days.