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Category: Disease and Insect Control
June Rose Growing Notes
by Marty Reich, Master Rosarian, Editor of the Rose Leaf
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April Rose Growing Notes
by Marty Reich, Master Rosarian, Editor of the Rose Leaf
So you have pruned your roses and cleaned up the beds some time around now. It is still too early to pull the mulch very far away. We could have a freeze until the middle of April and did last year. If you spray, you have done that as well, soaking the mulch as well as the almost bare bushes. It is so much better to get ahead of blackspot and spray routinely than to let it get ahead of you.
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Roses: Back on the Menu with Insects
by David Cook, Davidson County Extension Agent with the UT Extension office of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
David Cook’s presentation to the Nashville Rose Society is an excellent resource for the types of insects that attack our roses in Tennessee. He explains how to identify the culprit based on the damage to the plant, and gives organic solutions for dealing with them.
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And for our next garden pest – Spider Mites!
by Marty Reich, Master Rosarian
Excerpted from the July 2018 Rose Leaf
I assume everyone is still battling Japanese beetles and now we are seeing spider mites.
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