Bugs and blobs on Roses

This is a Very Interesting Read Telme8 Thanx4posting :) il get myself a Box/Bag of Flower Sulpher 2 try when i feed the Boaders/Plants in spring :)

Think I'll try it too. My roses suffer from blackspot terribly this year. It's worth a try and if it works then all well and good.

Yes Hywel do that & then we can tell Telme how we get on :) We`l be her 1st Guinpigs 2try it :)

Yes I think it's a good idea.

So there u have it Telme Me&Hywel will give u the Results Come Next Summer when the Roses are all a Leaf & In Flower we`l know what 2 tell u :) " Fingers Crossed Hywel" :)

Sounds like a great idea, Telme. There's a Farmers' shop not so far away from us - I shall see if they sell it.

Well folks, it's worth a try. It was our golden wedding a year last April and we received a grand collection of golden wedding roses, I see that bed is very sparse of leaves this Summer, and rather spotty. Planted in a part of the garden that has not had the Sulpher treatment, so I will be applying it in the Spring also, possibly some Magnesium too. I will report the result next Summer, if we don't push on and experiment we will get no where fast!!!!

Sulfur, Magnesium are two great additions to the fall garden. Be it lawns roses or whatever. There is a disease resistant quality from sulfer for lawns especially.

Cleaning up old leaves is equally good. I apply greensand to all my bonsai every fall. Not just for sulfur but for other trace elements and potash. It usually contains about 3% total potash, along with iron, magnesium, silica and as many as 30 other trace minerals. Sells for an arm and the leg in small bags. Five lbs. for 8.00 bucks. But buy a fifty lb. bag from an Ag Co-op and they might dunn you for only 30.00.

Do the math. Buy fertilizers by the bulk size and divy it up with your gardening friends.

Finally, do the math in a different way. You are paying 60 dollars *the most economical way) for 100 lbs. of fertilizer that conatins only 3 % of actual potash. That means 60 dollars for 3 lbs. of potash. Sometimes, one needs to read things out. Potash is much cheaper in other formulations ... but it is not organic and may contain harmful salts. Trace minerals are not usually found in the other products, but may also be hyped up by the organic groupies.

I remain half-way between --It is a toss up.

I would also caution about over doing sulfur. It could acidify the soil.

I strongly recommend trace elements and the sucking up of old dead leaves with those power blowers that can also suck in and shred and bag. Considering Telme's number of plants this would be a good investment.

Baking soda sprayed on the plants during the growing season is another organic way to reduce some of these diseases. Not a cure!

Very interesting. I was gutted by the severity of black spot last year, and had no chance of attacking it with sprays because the rain never stopped! I might try to get some sulphur now!